The Emergence of Miller's Magic Number on a Sparse Distributed Memory

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...

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Autores principales: Linhares, Alexandre, Chada, Daniel M., Aranha, Christian N.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016408/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21246049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015592
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-30164082011-01-18 The Emergence of Miller's Magic Number on a Sparse Distributed Memory Linhares, Alexandre Chada, Daniel M. Aranha, Christian N. PLoS One Research Article 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. Public Library of Science 2011-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3016408/ /pubmed/21246049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015592 Text en Linhares et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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