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Chunking 0:33
A 33-second explainer of Chunking, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
Chunking is the brain's trick of grouping individual pieces of information into meaningful units, so instead of memorising twelve separate digits, you hold three groups of four. The chunk is the unit, not the items inside it.
You didn't memorise twelve things. You memorised three, then unpacked them. That's chunking: the brain's way of fitting more into a smaller working memory.
