The Making of Cognitive Science
Essays in Honor of George Armitage Miller

This book, first published in 1988, is a collection of essays about the development of cognitive science by colleagues of George A. Miller.

William Hirst (Edited by)

9780521342551, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 April 1988

296 pages
15.2 x 22.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.57 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Cognition & cognitive psychology [JMR]