What key details about george armitage miller can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: george armitage miller -lrb- february 3 , 1920 -- july 22 , 2012 -rrb- was one of the founders of the cognitive psychology field . he also contributed to the birth of psycholinguistics and cognitive science in general . miller wrote several books and directed the development of wordnet , an online word-linkage database usable by computer programs . he authored the paper , '' the magical number seven , plus or minus two , '' which experimentally discovered an average limit of seven for human short-term memory capacity . this paper is frequently cited in both psychology and the wider culture . he also won awards such as the national medal of science . miller started his education focusing on speech and language and published papers on these topics , focusing on mathematical , computational and psychological aspects of the field . he started his career at a time when the reigning theory in psychology was behaviorism , which eschewed any attempt to study mental processes and focused only on observable behavior . working mostly at harvard university , mit and princeton university , miller introduced experimental techniques to study the psychology of mental processes , by linking the new field of cognitive psychology to the broader area of cognitive science , including computation theory and linguistics . he collaborated and co-authored work with other figures in cognitive science and psycholinguistics , such as noam chomsky . for moving psychology into the realm of mental processes and for aligning that move with information theory , computation theory , and linguistics , miller is considered one of the great twentieth-century psychologists . a '' review of general psychology '' survey , published in 2002 , ranked miller as the 20th most cited psychologist of that era .
- death place is plainsboro , new jersey- prizes is national levy medal -lrb- 1991 -rrb- medal of science -lrb- 1991 -rrb- louis e.- known for is * contributions to cognitive psychology and science- thesis year is 1946- death date is 22 july 2012- field is psychology , cognitive science- doctoral advisor is stanley smith stevens- notable students is george sperling , ulric neisser- work institution is princeton university oxford university university of alabama american psychological association university harvard university massachusetts institute of technology rockefeller- birth date is 3 february 1920- thesis title is optimal design of jamming signals- name is george armitage miller- nationality is american- image is george in 1989.jpg armitage miller speaking at the first aps convention- birth place is charleston , west virginia- alma mater is harvard university , university of alabama