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Re:Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync: Study on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:29PM (#17289179)

Welsh.

Re:Overtaxed Working Memory Knocks the Brain Out of Sync: Study on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:28PM (#17289177)

(Throwaway)

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...