 George A. Miller
1920—
Psychology could not participate in the cognitive revolution until it had freed itself from behaviorism, thus restoring cognition to scientific respectability.
米勒（1920— ），美国心理学家，认知心理学的奠基者之一，在记忆方面的研究十分著名。他1956年发表的论文《神奇的数字7±2；我们信息加工能力的局限》对于短时记忆的研究具有里程碑意义。曾荣获国家科学奖，1962年当选为国家科学院院士．1963年获美国心理学会颁发的杰出科学贡献奖，1969年当选为美国心理学会主席。
| George A. Miller is a famous professor of psychology at Princeton University, whose most famous work was The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information, which was published in 1956 in The Psychological Review.
In the linguistics community, Miller is well-known for overseeing the development of WordNet, a semantic network for the English language. Development began in 1985, and over the years, the project has received about $3 million of funding, mainly from government agencies interested in machine translation.
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主要著作
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information
The cognitive revolution: a historical perspective.
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