It's time for more Cognitive Science! Last time I only gave you a short definition of the subject, but today you will gain more interesting information...Let's go back in history and see how and where it all begun!!
...*FLASHBACK!!*...
It all started way back at the ancient Greek society, who already were very active in writing philosophical texts. A few important Greeks, such as Plato and Aristotle, contributed in the discovery of the philosophical mind of humans. Although this eventually led to the development of Psychology, this did not entirely cover the real base of Cognitive Science.
Real Cognitive Science did not came up until the early 20th century. In the first half of the 20th century, behaviorism was a upcoming flow. Behaviorism states that the behavior of human beings is purely scientifically explainable. Some scientists however, did not feel that behaviorism covered all intern mental processes of the human being. After the development of the computer in the 1950's and due to language scientist Noam Chomsky's theories, the Psychology made his first real cognitive turn:
Scientists then saw behavior and mental processes as a function of the information processing capabilities of the brain and the nerves.
This led in the 1970s and 1980s to quite a number of experiments, and even today people are still testing the cognitive abilities of human beings, because there are still new things waiting to be discovered...
Next week we will take a closer look in the visual aspect of cognition, so visit my blog and keep up to date!
What do you see here...:
Cognitive regards,
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