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dc.contributor.authorGobet, Fernand
dc.contributor.authorLloyd-Kelly, Martyn
dc.contributor.authorLane, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-28T14:45:48Z
dc.date.available2017-06-28T14:45:48Z
dc.date.issued2016-02-09
dc.identifier.citationGobet , F , Lloyd-Kelly , M & Lane , P 2016 , ' What's in a Name? The Multiple Meanings of "Chunk" and "Chunking" ' , Frontiers in Psychology , vol. 7 , 102 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00102
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dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85016208148
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dc.description© 2016 Gobet, Lloyd-Kelly and Lane. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
dc.description.abstractThe term chunk, denoting a unit, and the related term chunking, denoting a mechanism to construct that unit, are familiar terms within psychology and cognitive science. The Oxford English Dictionary provides several definitions for “chunk.” First, “a thick, more or less cuboidal, lump, cut off anything,” or, colloquially, “a large or substantial amount.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary provides similar definitions. OUP's Oxford Dictionary alone gives a computer-related meaning: “a section of information or data.” It is in this context, a chunk as a section of information, that the word is used within psychology and cognitive science. In these fields, a chunk typically refers to a single unit built from several smaller elements, and chunking to the process of creating a chunk. Gobet et al. (2001, p. 236) define a chunk as “a collection of elements having strong associations with one another, but weak associations with elements within other chunks.” However, in different contexts and with different authors, these two terms are used with a variety of meanings, which are very often conflated, leading to considerable confusion. Table 1 provides a taxonomy of the main meanings of “chunk” and “chunking,” which will be used to structure this article.en
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dc.titleWhat's in a Name? The Multiple Meanings of "Chunk" and "Chunking"en
dc.contributor.institutionCentre for Computer Science and Informatics Research
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Computer Science
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