Abstract
According to Millers' chunk hypothesis, the number of word categories (chunks) represented in the immediate word recall of a list of 20 categories of words should be the same as the number of words recalled from a list of 20 unrelated words. Using a design involving list lengths of 10, 15, and 20 ch
Keywords
PsychologyRecallRecall testNatural language processingCognitive psychologyFree recallLinguisticsInformation retrievalComputer sciencePhilosophy
MeSH Terms
HumansMemoryMental RecallVerbal Learning
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- 1963
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- 66
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- 227-234
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Burton H. Cohen
(1963).
Recall of categorized words lists..
Journal of Experimental Psychology
, 66
(3)
, 227-234.
https://doi.org/10.1037/h0048846
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- DOI
- 10.1037/h0048846
- PMID
- 14047762