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George Miller was an American psychologist whose 1956 paper on the limits of short-term memory, showing that human recall is bounded not by a fixed number of items but by chunks of recoded information, became one of the founding texts of cognitive science. His work treated the mind as a system that processes and represents information, a framework that displaced the behaviorist assumption that psychology could study only observable stimulus and response. Miller later helped found Princeton University's Cognitive Science Laboratory and co-created WordNet, a large lexical database used throughout computational linguistics.

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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account
1920 1
Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account
1920-02-03 1
Death DateSourced to the subject's own account
2012-07-22 1
Death YearSourced to the subject's own account
2012 1
Field
Psychology / Cognitive Science 2
Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own account
Plainsboro, New Jersey, US 1
NationalitySourced to the subject's own account
American 1
Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account
"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" 1
BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account
Charleston, West Virginia, US 1
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Cognitive Science, Disciplines

One of several convergent founding figures alongside Herbert Simon, Noam Chomsky, Allen Newell and Marvin Minsky; no single founder is credited.

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1. George Miller (Wikipedia)
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was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology
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1. George Miller (Wikipedia)
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Known for "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" Directing WordNet
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2. Cognitive Science (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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George Miller summarized numerous studies which showed that the capacity of human thinking is limited, with short-term memory, for example, limited to around seven items.
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Cognitive Science (Wikipedia)
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