George Armitage Miller, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American cognitive psychologist
Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1920
Place of Birth: Charleston, West Virginia, United States
Date of Death: 22-Jul-2012
Profession: psychologist, university teacher
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About George Armitage Miller
- George Armitage Miller (February 3, 1920 – July 22, 2012) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of the cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science.
- He also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics.
- Miller wrote several books and directed the development of WordNet, an online word-linkage database usable by computer programs.
- He authored the paper, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," in which he observed that many different experimental findings considered together reveal the presence of an average limit of seven for human short-term memory capacity.
- This paper is frequently cited by psychologists and in the wider culture.
- Miller won numerous awards, including the National Medal of Science. Miller began his career when the reigning theory in psychology was behaviorism, which eschewed the study mental processes and focused on observable behavior.
- Rejecting this approach, Miller devised experimental techniques and mathematical methods to analyze mental processes, focusing particularly on speech and language.
- Working mostly at Harvard University, MIT and Princeton University, he went on to become one of the founders of psycholinguistics and was one of the key figures in founding the broader new field of cognitive science, circa 1978.
- He collaborated and co-authored work with other figures in cognitive science and psycholinguistics, such as Noam Chomsky.
- For moving psychology into the realm of mental processes and for aligning that move with information theory, computation theory, and linguistics, Miller is considered one of the great twentieth-century psychologists.
- A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Miller as the 20th most cited psychologist of that era.
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