When1: 1956
When2: 1962
Who: George Miller [Miller, George]
What: psychologist
Where: USA
works\ Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information [1956]; Psychology: The Science of Mental Life [1962]
Detail: He lived 1920 to ?. Concepts or perceptions can be chunks of previous concepts or perceptions [1956]. Number of chunks that people can keep in immediate memory is seven, plus or minus two. Perhaps, chunking synchronizes information subsets into units.
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