George Armitage Miller
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George Armitage Miller

Personal information
Birth dateFebruary 3, 1920(age 91)
Birth placeCharleston, West Virginia
ResidenceU.S.
NationalityUS-American
FieldsPsychology, Cognitive Science
InstitutionsPrinceton University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rockefeller University
Oxford University
American Psychological Association
Known forThe Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
overseeing development of WordNet
Notable awardsNational Medal of Science (1991)
The Louis E. Levy Medal (1991)

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George Armitage Miller (born February 3, 1920 in Charleston, West Virginia) is the author of one of the most highly cited papers in psychology, "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" published in 1956 in Psychological Review. This paper suggests that seven (plus or minus two) is the magic number that characterizes people's memory performance on random lists of letters, words, numbers, or almost any kind of meaningful familiar item.

According to a widely cited multi-method empirical study, Miller is the 20th most historically important psychologist of the 20th century.

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中国营销传播网--乔治•米勒（-George Armitage Miller- ），美国心理学家，是以信息处理为基础的认知心理学先驱。1956年，乔治•米勒发表研究报告《神奇的数字7+/-2；我们信息加工能力的 ... - Date : Thu, 27 May 2010 14:00:43 GMT+00:00
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