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I work in human memory neuroscience / linguistics.
1. The 7-plus-or-minus-two study is entirely bunk. Welsh words are longer and yield < 7. This WM capacity is about verbal rehearsal.
2. Here's background reading on the complexity and debates over oscillation functions: https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/Buzsaki%20...
I work in human memory neuroscience / linguistics.
1. The 7-plus-or-minus-two study is entirely bunk. Welsh words are longer and yield < 7. This WM capacity is about verbal rehearsal.
2. Here's background reading on the complexity and debates over oscillation functions: https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/Buzsaki%20...