George A. Miller

George A. Miller authored the 1956 paper ”The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two”, one of the most cited pieces in cognitive psychology.

• Pinned down the capacity of short-term memory at roughly 7 ± 2 items, with chunking as the trick that raises effective capacity
• Co-organized the 1956 MIT symposium often called the birth of the Cognitive Revolution, alongside Chomsky and Newell & Simon