13 agosto 2015
People have more difficulty recalling the string of letters BIC, IAJ, FKI, RSU and SAF than FBI, CIA, JFK, IRS and USA. The well-established reason is that the amount of information we can hold in our short-term or working memory is affected by whether the information can be ‘chunked’ into larger units. New research takes this learning principle one step further by uncovering how the strength — or familiarity — of those chunks plays a crucial role.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150813130238.htm
