The Making of Cognitive Science
Essays in Honor of George Armitage Miller
Published on 29. April 1988
Book
Hardback
296 pages
978-0-521-34255-1 (ISBN)
Description
Cognitive Science represents the convergence of workers in diverse disciplines- artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology - in a unified effort to understand human mental life. This book, first published in 1988, is a collection of essays about the development of cognitive science by colleagues of George A. Miller, a central figure whose own intellectual history is to a large extent a history of the field. The distinguished contributors take the story from work on formalism in psychology in the late 1950s to the organization of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard, where many first-generation cognitive psychologists were trained, to the expanding interdisciplinary enterprises of first psycholinguistics and then the cognitive neuroscience, and finally to the institutionalization of cognitive science within universities. Together, they essays constitute a fascinating and readable personal account of the way in which an exciting new science has come into being. The Making of Cognitive Science will be welcomed by a broad audience in the cognitive science community, as well as by historians of psychology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
634 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-34255-1 (9780521342551)
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Content
Preface; List of contributors; Part I. Mathematical Psychology: 1. George A. Miller and the origins of mathematical psychology William J. McGill; 2. The contribution of information theory to psychology Wendell R. Garner; 3. Writing plans ... Eugene Galanter; 4. George Miller's data and the development of methods for representing cognitive structures Roger N. Shepard; 5. The magical number seven: information processing then and now George Sperling; 6. Cognitive recollections Ulric Neisser; Part II. The Center for Cognitive Studies: 7. Founding the Center for Cognitive Studies Jerome Bruner; 8. Life at the Center Donald A. Norman and Willem J. M. Levelt; Part III. Psycholinguistics: 9. The psychological reality of grammar: a student's-eye view of cognitive science Thomas G. Bever; 10. Psychology and linguistics in the sixties Eric Wanner; 11. Language use and linguistic diversity Jacques Mehler; 12. The immanent form of phonemes Morris Halle; Part IV. Studying the Lexicon: 13. On opening the dictionary Philip Johnson-Laird; 14. Lexical development - the Rockefeller years Susan Carey; 15. Methodological semanticism considered as a history of progress in cognitive science Keith Stenning; Part V. Cognitive Neuroscience: 16. Life with George: the birth of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute Michael S. Gazzaniga; 17. Cognitive psychologists become interested in neuroscience William Hirst; Part VI. Cognitive Science: 18. Cognitive science? Gilbert Harman; Biographical information; Publications; Name index; Subject index.