American cognitive psychologist and one of the founders of cognitive psychology and cognitive science; also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics and, later, to computational linguistics through the WordNet lexical database he directed at Princeton.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionPublished The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1956), proposing that short-term memory and immediate judgment are limited to about seven meaningful chunks regardless of how much information each chunk carries, a founding result of the cognitive revolution in psychology. 1 Notable WorkThe Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (1956) 1 Connections
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Miller's 'magical number seven' work introduced chunking as the grouping of information into meaningful units to extend working memory capacity.
His information-processing capacity work helped found mathematical and cognitive modeling approaches in psychology.
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George Armitage Miller (February 3, 1920 – July 22, 2012) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science.
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In 1956, Miller put a number on that limit in the paper "The magical number seven, plus or minus two".
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George Armitage Miller (February 3, 1920 - July 22, 2012) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science.
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