ABSTRACT
Term introduced by Miller and Selfridge (1950), and again by Miller (1956), in memory research to denote the (individually differing) segmentation and bundling of information units. Based on such a schematization of knowledge, which depends on personal experience or expert knowledge, it is quite plausible that the capacity to remember information is variable: a professional chess player will be able to recall the positions of a particular move (that was just played out before one’s eyes) much more completely than a novice player, since the professional chess player can engage his/her command of the rules for chunking (to structure the information of the playing board).
