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In his article, Miller discussed a coincidence between the limits of one-dimensional absolute judgment and the limits of short-term memory. In a one-dimensional absolute-judgment task, a person is presented with a number of stimuli that vary on one dimension (e.g., 10 different tones varying only in pitch) and responds to each stimulus with a corresponding response (learned before).
[8] [1] [9] Important publications in triggering the cognitive revolution include psychologist George Miller's 1956 article "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two" [10] (one of the most frequently cited papers in psychology), [11] linguist Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structures (1957) [12] and "Review of B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior ...
Miller was born on February 3, 1920, in Charleston, West Virginia, the son of George E. Miller, a steel company executive [1] and Florence (née Armitage) Miller. [3] Soon after his birth, his parents divorced, and he lived with his mother during the Great Depression, attending public school and graduating from Charleston High School in 1937.
A memory question came up when they entered the second half of the room. Shift Trials: In these trials, they made a space change. But not every time there was a change did they ask a memory question. Results: Experiment 2 found that the effect they saw in Experiment 1, where the connection between objects and a person affected memory, was seen ...
Neal Elgar Miller (August 3, 1909 – March 23, 2002) was an American experimental psychologist. [3] Described as an energetic man with a variety of interests, including physics, biology and writing, Miller entered the field of psychology to pursue these. [4]
In experiments with the macaque monkey, Earl Miller and his colleagues used the delayed matching to sample (DMS) task to assess working memory in monkeys. [33] The monkey was required to fixate on a computer screen while coloured images were displayed serially for 0.5 seconds, and separated by a one-second delay.
Two weeks after the world lost soap vet Billy Miller, his former on-screen missus is paying tribute. Miller died on Sept. 15, at age 43, following a lengthy battle with bipolar disorder. On ...
James Grier Miller (1916 – 7 November 2002, in California) was an American biologist, a pioneer of systems science and academic administrator, who originated the modern use of the term "behavioral science", founded and directed the multi-disciplinary Mental Health Research Institute at the University of Michigan, [1] and originated the living systems theory.