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CATEGORIES:Other events:Fall 2010
CREATED:20151203T141542
SUMMARY:Short-term memory, working memory, chunking memory
LOCATION:Universit
DESCRIPTION:Short term memory is famously limited in capacity to Miller's (1956) magic
number 7 or, in many more recent studies on working memory, about 4 chunks
of information, but the definition of "chunk" in both the short-term
memory and working memory contexts has never been clear. A more precise co
nception of chunk derived from the notion of Kolmogorov complexity is propo
sed: a chunk is a unit in a maximally compressed code. I present a series o
f experiments in which the compressibility of stimulus sequences was manip
ulated. In contrast to most working memory tasks where chunking is delibera
tely suppressed, the goal of our chunking memory tasks is to quantify chunk
ing by introducing regular patterns into the stimuli. Our subjects' measure
d digit span appears to be about 3 or 4 chunks after compression, equivalen
t to about 7 uncompressed items of typical compressibility. I also present
a new method based on an algorithm usually dedicated to DNA sequence alignm
ent in order to reliably score short-term memory performance. The idea is t
hat deletion, substitution, translocation, and insertion errors, which are
typical in DNA, are also typical errors in short-term memory. I illustrate
the difficulty of arriving at a good measure of the memory span.
CONTACT:Dr. Fabien Mathy - Special Talk""
X-EXTRAINFO:Dr. Fabien Mathy - Special Talk""
DTSTAMP:20240329T074851
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101116T100000
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