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...

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Published in:PloS one 2011-01, Vol.6 (1), p.e15592-e15592
Main Authors: Linhares, Alexandre, Chada, Daniel M, Aranha, Christian N
Format: Article
Language:English
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Binomial distribution
Biology
Computational neuroscience
Computer Science
Distributed memory
Emergence
Engineering
Handbooks
Humans
International conferences
Mathematics
Memory
Memory - physiology
Models, Neurological
Models, Theoretical
Nervous system
Neural networks
Neurosciences
Neurosciences - methods
Short term
Social and Behavioral Sciences
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0015592