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Norris, Dennis; Kalm, Kristjan; Hall, Jane – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Memory for verbal material improves when words form familiar chunks. But how does the improvement due to chunking come about? Two possible explanations are that the input might be actively recoded into chunks, each of which takes up less memory capacity than items not forming part of a chunk (a form of data compression), or that chunking is based…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Short Term Memory, Recognition (Psychology), Linguistic Input