 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— ），美國心理學(xué)家，認知心理學(xué)的奠基者之一，在記憶方面的研究十分著名。他1956年發(fā)表的論文《神奇的數(shù)字7±2；我們信息加工能力的局限》對于短時記憶的研究具有里程碑意義。曾榮獲國家科學(xué)獎，1962年當選為國家科學(xué)院院士．1963年獲美國心理學(xué)會頒發(fā)的杰出科學(xué)貢獻獎，1969年當選為美國心理學(xué)會主席。
| 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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