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The observer has a capacity
A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.
How many things a person can apprehend at once, and what sets the limit. Collects the numerical-discrimination and working-memory literature that pursues that single question, from Jevons in 1871 to the present. It is held in this corpus because the modern answer is a capacity argument of the kind applied elsewhere here to channels.
4 references
Précis of Making Sense of Number, Bit-by-Bit
Samuel J. Cheyette (2023)
Making Sense of Number, Bit-by-Bit
Samuel J. Cheyette (2021)
A unified account of numerosity perception
Samuel J. Cheyette and others (2020) · Nature Human Behaviour · Springer Science and Business Media LLC
The Power of Numerical Discrimination
W. Stanley Jevons (1871) · Nature · Springer Science and Business Media LLC