米勒 | George A. Miller

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.

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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