The emergence of Miller's magic number on a sparse distributed memory.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 21246049.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0015592 and PMC identifier 3016408.
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Abstract
Human memory is limited in the number of items held in one's mind--a limit known as "Miller's magic number". We study the emergence of such limits as a result of the statistics of large bitvectors used to represent items in memory, given two postulates: i) the Sparse Distributed Memory; and ii) chunking through averaging. Potential implications for theoretical neuroscience are discussed.
Medical subject headings
- Memory
- Models, Neurological
- Neurosciences