OriginsoftheCognitiveRevolution.pptVIP

Origins of the Cognitive Revolution October 7, 1998 The Cognitive revolution in Linguistics Psychology Computer science Philosophy Anthropology, sociology... Cognitive metatheory (Baars) What are we talking about (when we talk about cognitive science)? Cognitive metatheory: (Baars) …a belief that psychology studies behavior in order to infer unobservable explanatory constructs, such as memory, attention, and meaning. (144). The cognitive revolution took place in many places at the same time, and involved a number of areas, including memory, language, imagery, and attention. (147)…a metatheory