Category Archives: Brain Science

Posts about the way the brain works and how that affects programming. Cognitive biases, productivity, and such.

Miller’s Magic Number

George A. Miller’s paper The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information discussed some limits of the human brain with respect to information processing. In particular, his research had found that people are unable to keep up with more than 5-9 different chunks of information at a… Read More »