The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1956)

This is a classic 1956 paper marrying information theory and psychology. Easy read yet cited 33000 (!) times.

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Humans 1. have limited judgement 2. have limited memory 3. use recursion to process so much information

NOTE: This is not my article. This is a classic paper originally published by George A. Miller in The Psychological Review, 1956. Blue highlights/annotations are my own.