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IN an article with this title in a recent number of NATURE, Mr. W. S. Jevons offered the results of some ingenious experiments he had been making to determine how many objects the human mind could count by an instantaneous and apparently single act of attention. He comes to the conclusion that the power of his mind was limited to something less than five.
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B., J. The Power of Numerical Discrimination. Nature 3, 367 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003367b0
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