Cognitive Load & Information Processing
Chunking
A cognitive strategy of breaking information into smaller, meaningful groups to make it easier to process and remember. Exploits the brain's natural tendency to find patterns.
In plain language
The brain groups related information into units. Breaking complex content into labelled groups makes it faster to scan and easier to remember.
In the wild
Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.
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