George A. Miller (1920-2012) was an influential American psychologist known for his significant contributions to cognitive psychology and linguistics. He is perhaps best known for his work on the nature of memory, particularly his famous paper "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two," published in 1956. In this paper, Miller explored the limits of memory capacity, proposing that the average number of objects an individual can hold in working memory is about seven (plus or minus two).
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