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Cowan's Revision

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More recent work places working memory capacity nearer four items, plus or minus one, when rehearsal and chunking are controlled.

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With rehearsal blocked, performance falls to roughly four items regardless of how many are presented.

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The lower figure is not a correction of Miller's data. It measures the capacity after strategies are removed.

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