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George Miller
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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 Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Death YearSourced to the subject's own account FieldPsychology / Cognitive Science 2 Death PlaceSourced to the subject's own accountPlainsboro, New Jersey, US 1 NationalitySourced to the subject's own account Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" 1 BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountCharleston, West Virginia, US 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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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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