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The Cognitive Revolution: A Historical Perspective

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The Cognitive Revolution: A Historical Perspective

Abstract/Description

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 the cognitive revolution until it had freed itself from behaviorism, thus restoring cognition to scientific respectability. By then, it was becoming clear in several disciplines that the solution to some of their problems depended crucially on solving problems traditionally allocated to other disciplines. Collaboration was called for: this is a personal account of how it came about.

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Date

Volume

7

Issue

3

Pages

141-144

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Background/Context

Medium

Print

Background/context type

Historical

Open access/free-text available

No

Peer reviewed

Yes

ISSN

1879-307X

Citation

Miller, G. A. (2003). The Cognitive Revolution: A Historical Perspective. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(3), 141–144. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1364-6613(03)00029-9

Resource status/form

Published Text

Scholarship genre

Historical

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