George A. Miller
A pioneering cognitive psychologist known for his seminal paper 'The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two' on short-term memory capacity.
Quotes by George A. Miller
The human capacity for language is truly remarkable.
We are all driven by our plans and goals.
The study of meaning is at the heart of cognitive science.
The mind is an active, constructive agent.
The most important thing about science is that it's always changing.
The human mind is capable of extraordinary feats of memory and learning.
The computer is a powerful metaphor for understanding the mind, but it is just a metaphor.
The study of language is a window into the human mind.
The cognitive revolution was a necessary step in the progress of psychology.
The human mind is a complex and beautiful thing.
My problem is that I have been persecuted by an integer.
There seems to be some peculiarly 'magical' properties of the number seven.
The psychological literature on the capacity of immediate memory is vast but disorganized.
It is notable that the number 7 occurs so frequently in modern science and technology.
The span of absolute judgment and the span of immediate memory impose severe limitations on the amount of information that we are able to receive, process, and remember.
Cognitive psychology is the science of the mind.
Plans are any hierarchical process in the organism that can control the order in which a sequence of actions is to be performed.
The test of a theory is not elegance but explanatory and predictive power.
Language is the most complex skill we ever learn, yet we acquire it effortlessly as children.
Words are the atoms that we use to build the molecules of our thoughts.