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Chunking was first proposed as a model of human memory by Miller (1956), and has since become a major component of theories of cognition. More recently it has been proposed that a theory of human learning based on chunking could model the ubiquitous power law of practice (Newell and Rosenbloom, 1981). In demonstrating that a practice mechanism based on chunking is capable of speeding up task performance, it was speculated that chunking, when combined with a general problem solver, might be capable of more interesting forms of learning than just simple speed ups (Rosenbloom & Newell, 1983). In this paper we describe an initial investigation into chunking as a general learning mechanism.
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Laird, J., Rosenbloom, P., Newell, A. (1986). Introduction. In: Universal Subgoaling and Chunking. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2277-1_14
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