George Armitage Miller Created 2026-10-25 Updated 2026-11-05
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A cognitive psychologist who applied information theory to limits on human information processing. His 1956 paper distinguished immediate human memory from judgments of isolated sensory magnitudes and emphasized that chunking changes how much information a remembered unit contains. Familiar groups of items can be retained as units, so a count of remembered units is not a universal limit on bits of information. [ref]
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George Armitage Miller speaking at the first Association for Psychological Science convention in 1989
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