Miller's law
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
- Date
- 1956 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- George Armitage Miller
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
A cognitive psychology paper arguing that human short-term memory has a limited capacity of roughly seven items (plus or minus two), one of the most cited publications in psychology; written by George A. Miller.
What it led to
- Foundation of cognitive psychology research on working memory
- Design principles for interfaces and information presentation
- The concept of chunking in learning