This chapter provides an autobiographical account of George A. Miller. Topics he discusses
regrading his life include: the book salesman; Donald A. Ramsdell; Wendell R. Garner; S.
Smith Stevens; the secret thesis; Frederick C. Frick; JCR Licklider; seven, more of less; …

A variety of researches are examined from the standpoint of information theory. It is shown
that the unaided observer is severely limited in terms of the amount of information he can
receive, process, and remember. However, it is shown that by the use of various techniques …

This manuscript was begun in the summer of 1946, when the author first tried to select a text
for an undergraduate course entitled The Psychology of Speech and Communication. No
text could be found. The choice was between assigning six or seven different books or no …

Because meaningful sentences are composed of meaningful words, any system that hopes
to process natural languages as people do must have information about words and their
meanings. This information is traditionally provided through dictionaries, and machine …

WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current
psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, and adjectives are
organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different …

Cognitive science is a child of the 1950s, the product of a time when psychology,
anthropology and linguistics were redefining themselves and computer science and
neuroscience as disciplines were coming into existence. Psychology could not participate in …

WordNet is an on-line lexical reference system whose design isinspired by current
psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory; version 1.6 is the most up-to-date
version of the system. WordNet, an electronic lexical database, is considered to be the most …

It was just 20 year ago, at the 8th annual RIME conference, that I last delivered an invited
lecture, offering what was then labeled" A Perspective on Research in Medical Education".
Now, after more than a decade of absence from the front lines ofthat craft, the invitation to …

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Most psychologists take it for granted that a scientific account of the behavior of organisms
must begin with the definition of fixed, recognizable, elementary units of behavior—
something a psychologist can use as a biologist uses cells, or an astronomer uses stars, or a …