COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY

7.4

Cognitive Science

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?

Cognitive Science Hexagon

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.)



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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