The cognitive revolution was accompanied, if not fueled, by a movement that involved several disciplines: cognitive science. What happened to this movement?

George Miller placed the birth of a movement that extended beyond psychology and involved computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and other disciplines - the cognitive science movement. But what happened to this movement?

Núñez and colleagues (2019) offer a historical overview of the movement based on bibliometric and socio-institutional (e.g., educational curricula) analyses.

Questions on the texts

Read Núñez et al. (2019) (core reading) and try to answer the following questions:

1. Which disciplines are typically said to constitute Cognitive Science and how are they represented in the academic products of the movement?
2. Is Cognitive Science a multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary movement?
3. What is psychology’s role in the Cognitive Science movement?

The figure above illustrates the fields that contributed to the birth of cognitive science; but is this a good representation of Cognitive Science today?
(CC BY-SA 3.0; adapted from Miller, George A (2003). “The cognitive revolution: a historical perspective”. TRENDS in Cognitive Sciences 7.)

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References

Núñez, R., Allen, M., Gao, R., Miller Rigoli, C., Relaford-Doyle, J., & Semenuks, A. (2019). What happened to cognitive science? Nature Human Behaviour, 3(8), 782–791. http://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-019-0626-2

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