Facts about Miller's Magic Number

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   Later research has suggested that working memory capacity may be closer to four items rather than seven, refining Miller's Magic Number.

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   Chunking, a strategy central to Miller's Magic Number, allows people to expand effective memory capacity by grouping individual items into meaningful units.

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   Miller's Magic Number influenced the design of phone numbers, zip codes, and other information systems chunked to fit within human memory limits.

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   The concept is named after George Miller's influential paper 'The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two,' published in the journal Psychological Review.

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   Psychologist George Miller proposed in 1956 that human short-term memory can hold approximately seven items, plus or minus two.

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