Cognitive load

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    The used amount of working memory resources.

    "I've never felt more comfortable moving across our family of devices as a user, which I do hundreds of times a day than I do now, moving between iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and macOS Big Sur. They all just feel of a family – there's just less cognitive load to the switching process."

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disregard energyfull memory footprintinformation loadmemory consumptionmemory usageoverall memory usage

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"I've never felt more comfortable moving across our family of devices as a user, which I do hundreds of times a day than I do now, moving between iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and macOS Big Sur. They all just feel of a family – there's just less cognitive load to the switching process."

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