- Working memory can only hold seven pieces of information while processing. - To work through this we need to chunk information. For example to remember phone numbers we often remember them in three number chunks. --- Miller, George A. "The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information." _Psychological review_ 63.2 (1956): 81. - [Link](https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2364276_4/component/file_2364275/content) Thalmann, Mirko, Alessandra S. Souza, and Klaus Oberauer. "How does chunking help working memory?." _Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition_ 45.1 (2019): 37. - [Link](https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/151291/1/Thalmann.et.al.Chunking.final.pdf)