"cognitive limit" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe the boundaries of what a person can understand or process at any given time. For example, "Susie's cognitive limit for taking in information meant that she could only handle a few questions at once."
Mason Porter, professor of nonlinear and complex systems at the University of Oxford, said: "We know that there is empirical evidence for some cognitive limit – how many digits people can memorise from phone numbers, or how many moving objects".
Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.
Path's 150-friend limit is based on Dunbar's number — which suggests that there's a cognitive limit to the number of relationships a person can have at one time.
The cognitive limit for reading a metropolitan map was estimated to be on the order of 8 bits a limit already exceeded by some large cities.
That "150" number was not plucked out of thin air; it's actually something called "Dunbar's number," which is a theory that suggests there's a cognitive limit to how many relationships a person can maintain within a social group.
Dunbar concluded that "there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships".
One possibility is that these limitations in behavioral flexibility are due to profound underlying cognitive limits, particularly in terms of the metarepresentational abilities available to chimpanzees.
It's harder to make sense of things, because the degree of complexity may lie beyond our cognitive limits.
Human beings' cognitive limits mean that no manager can understand all aspects of the business but many refuse to acknowledge those limits.
We are further hampered by cognitive limits to our understanding of the effects of other people's actions and our own.
We are hampered by cognitive limits: Most executives think they can take in more information than research suggests they actually can.
