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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 4.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2010 Feb 1;19(1):51–57. doi: 10.1177/0963721409359277

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Illustration of the three-part method of Chen and Cowan (in press) using word lists, and the key result. The central capacity limit, which can be observed only if rehearsal is prevented, was about 3 chunks no matter whether these chunks were singletons or learned word pairs.