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- Miller’s Language and Communication (1951) helped establish psycholinguistics, which studies the cognitive processes of how people learn, use, and invent languages. Using information theory, Miller argued that words cannot be broken down devoid of context.
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George Armitage Miller (February 3, 1920 – July 22, 2012) was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science. He also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics .
The Harvard psychologist George Miller, inspired by information theory, aimed to measure the “channel capacity” of the mind, and found that three very different tasks pointed to the same answer.
Sep 26, 2012 · George A. Miller, one of the founders of cognitive psychology, was a pioneer who recognized that the human mind can be understood using an information-processing model. His insights helped move psychological research beyond behaviorist methods that dominated the field through the 1950s.
Jul 26, 2012 · George A. Miller, one of the founders of cognitive psychology, was a pioneer who recognized that the human mind can be understood using an information-processing model. His insights helped move psychological research beyond behaviorist methods that dominated the field through the 1950s.
Miller has been described as a founder or pioneer of a number of fields, including psycholinguistics, mathematical psychology, applied psychology, cognitive science, and computational approaches to linguistic analysis.
George A. Miller delivers the keynote address, "The Place of Language in a Scientific Psychology," at the first APS Annual Convention in 1989. The human mind works a lot like a computer: It collects, saves, modifies, and retrieves information.
Dr. Miller is considered one of the fathers of modern cognitive psychology. In 1960, Miller was co-founder of the Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies, an outgrowth of his work on psycholinguistics and cognitive psychology. In 1962, he was elected to the National Academy of Science.
