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 also
the rarer gift of giving colleagues
the sense that problems of great
antiquity were on the verge of
solution by the group there
assembled that very afternoon.