The Cognitive Revolution at Fifty (Plus or Minus One)

The Mind as an Information-Processor

1956:Annus Mirabilis

Miller, G. A. (1956)The Magical Number Seven Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information

Bruner, J. R., Goodnow,J. J. & Austin, G. A. (1956) A Study of Thinking

Chomsky, N. (1956)Three Models for the

Description of Language

The Flowchart Replaces the Reflex Arc

The “New Look” in Perception

Bruner, J. R. & Potter, M. C. (1964) Interference in visual

recognition.

Brown, R. (1956) Language and categories: An Appendix

to A Study of Thinking

A First Language

The Child As Scientist

Carey, S. (1972) Are Children Little Scientists with

False Theories of the World? PhD Dissertation,

Harvard University

The Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies

(1960-1972)

Roger Brown on Jerry Bruner:

“Bruner had the gift of providing rare intellectual stimulus, but alsothe rarer gift of giving colleaguesthe sense that problems of greatantiquity were on the verge ofsolution by the group thereassembled that very afternoon.”