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Cognitive load refers to the strain or burden put onto someone’s working memory. The idea of humans having limited mental bandwidth has been observed for a long time. Modern cognitive psychology has been interested in measuring the limits and mechanisms of that bandwidth and related capacities. In 1956, George Miller published a study that found our short-term memory is generally limited to…
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Cognitive load refers to the strain or burden put onto someone’s working memory. The idea of humans having limited mental bandwidth has been observed for a long time. Modern cognitive psychology has been interested in measuring the limits and mechanisms of that bandwidth and related capacities. In 1956, George Miller published a study that found our short-term memory is generally limited to…