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The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
H.M. and the varieties of memory
H.M.’s loss was an immeasurable gain to the science of memory. Experiments conducted by Milner showed that although H.M. formed no new memories, he could learn new tasks. This showed that episodic memory – recollection of facts and events – worked quite differently from…
The Psychology Behind Information Dashboards
Short-term memory holds about seven chunks
In his article “Short-Term Memory and Web Usability,” Jakob Nielsen points out that the human mind can’t store much information in short term memory and that this is especially true when they are bombarded with multiple abstract or unusual pieces of data in rapid succession. He…
Three psychological needs behind dashboard design
Any product that has an information dashboard as one of its key offerings should keep the psychological needs of its end users in mind. Users like being in control, they have a limited short-term memory, and they love things that are simple. These three factors should form the…