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One way to keep more information in working memory involves compressing it using a process called chunking (described in chapter two), where you keep several things as a single unit. For example, instead of maintaining the letters c, o, g, n, i, t, i, o, and n separately in working memory, you chunk them into the single word cognition. ................
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