[comp.ai] Temporal span of consciousness, pointers?

eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman) (06/11/90)

I once read somewhere the claim that the temporal span of conscious experience 
was in the area of 15" -- a sort of short-term active memory of self that's
quite unlike other types of recall, a deficiency of which is that I can't
recall where I came across this idea. Has anyone heard of this claim, or
know of its origins? 

Thanks,

--eliot