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Magical attention
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (1):131-131 (2001)
Abstract
Cowan postulates that the capacity of short-term memory is limited to the number of items to which attention can be simultaneously directed. Unfortunately, he endows attention with unexplained properties, such as being able to locate the most recent inputs to short-term memory, so his theory does little more than restate the data.My notes
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