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Miller recognised the revolutionary potential of psychology and went on to say, …if we were ever to achieve substantial progress toward our stated aim – toward the understanding, prediction and control of mental and -2- behavioural phenomena – the implications for every aspect of society would make brave men tremble (1969:1065).
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Miller’s (1956) article about storage capacity limits, “The magical number seven plus or minus two…,” is one of the best-known articles in psychology. Though influential in several ways, for about 40 years it was oddly followed by rather little research on the numerical limit of capacity in working memory, or on the relation between three potentially related phenomena that Miller ...
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James S. McDonnell Foundation George Miller taught me how to make hollandaise. In the mid-1970s, George was a professor at Rockefeller University, where I was a graduate student in philosophy. George lived in Princeton, but had an apartment in RU’s faculty and student housing building where he stayed during the week. As a graduate student, I was al...
New York University Back in the early 1960s, the “psychotropes” and “sociotropes” were split into two departments at Harvard: Psychology and Social Relations. George was officially in the former, and me, I was in the latter. We two decided that, despite our differences, we’d teach a course together. “Let’s list it under Psych,” said George, “they n...
University of California, San Diego George was my colleague for nine years at Rockefeller University. We had neighboring apartments. We also shared a research facility outfitted with a lot of expensive audio and video recording devices, which was rare in the 1970s. It allowed us to record a variety of more or less free-flowing, multi-person activit...
University of Colorado Boulder I was one of the few graduate students at Rockefeller when George Miller and Bill Estes both had labs there. I started in George’s lab but moved to Bill’s lab when George went on leave to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The first experiment I published with George was a one-page article in Psychonomic S...
University of California, Santa Barbara The following story comes from an essay on George Miller that I wrote for his Festschrift. George remains very much alive in my mind. They used to say that Jack Benny, the world’s funniest man, was also the best audience. Everyone loved to try his stuff out on Jack. If George Miller is in an audience, he is u...
New School for Social Research George possessed an extraordinary capacity to reach out to people, embrace new ideas, and make connections outside his own disciplinary domain. Fortunately, along with many others, I benefited from his largesse. Although I was interested in memory, not psycholinguistics, I met George because I was pursuing a postdocto...
Princeton University George Miller was one of the founders of cognitive science. In 1942, he went to Harvard in the heyday of behaviorism, but he defied its ban on studying the mind. He investigated the intelligibility of speech sounds in noise. This topic inspired his attempt to apply the recent theory of information to psychology. But he discover...
Cornell University I was George’s last student at Rockefeller University and his first at Princeton. One joined a laboratory at Rockefeller, not a department, where each professor “was a department unto himself.” I will forever be grateful to George and to Bill Estes for welcoming me into that intellectual paradise. Unlike in so many ways, Bill pur...
Stanford University My first exposure to George was during my 1951–1955 graduate studies at Yale. The two psychology colloquia that I found the most stimulating and influential at Yale were both given by George. One was on his soon-to-be famous “The Magic Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two,” which he presented without notes, and with all the elegance ...
Russell Sage Foundation I can’t quite remember how long it took me to get over my fear of George, but it must have been some years after graduate school, and even then, as the anxiety receded, it left behind a powerful blend of intellectual awe and respect that prompted me to urgently summon my “A-game” whenever we got into anything more than a cas...
Oct 1, 2017 · Abstract. Reviewed here are the 9 scholarly articles written by George A. Miller for The American Journal of Psychology (AJP), all dated from 1944 to 1958. These articles include studies on discrimination, temporal judgments, auditory patterns, operant conditioning, animal behavior, verbal recall, and language structure. There are empirical and theoretical investigations and investigations ...
Human information processing is thus constricted by a bottleneck of 7 plus or minus 2 chunks. With this remarkable insight, George Miller helped to launch the cognitive revolution (pdf), ushering in a new era of theory and research in American psychology. At this time Miller was a young professor in Harvard’s Psychology Department.
George A. Miller, one of the founders of cognitive psychology, was a pioneer who recognized that the human mind can be understood using an information-processing model. His insights helped move psychological research beyond behaviorist methods that dominated the field through the 1950s. In 1991, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for ...
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American psychologist and innovator in the study of language and cognition. Helped establish psycholinguistics as an independent field of research in psychology. Married to Katherine James. George Miller was born on February 3, 1920, in Charleston, Virginia. Miller, was raised a Christian Scientist and lived with his parents until they divorced ...
