George A. Miller dies at 92; pioneer of cognitive psychology
Sunday, August 5, 2012 - 13:00
in Psychology & Sociology
He was a leader of the 'cognitive revolution' that replaced behaviorism as the leading psychological approach to understanding the mind.George A. Miller, an iconoclastic psychologist who played the crucial role in shifting his field from the study of behaviors to the direct examination of thought processes, died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, N.J. He was 92 and died from complications of pneumonia and dementia.