Post the 1956 MIT symposium

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• 1960 - two psychologists at Harvard University Jerome Bruner and George Miller founded the Center For Cognitive Studies. The Center was explicitly devoted to furthering the new ways of thinking about thinking, and played a central role in the early years of cognitive science.

• Also in 1960 Miller, Galanter and Pribram proposed a distinctly cognitive model of the mind. Mental activity took the form of recursively embedded TOTE units (Test-Operate-Test-Exit) which used feedback loops of cybernetics. Later led to Newell and Simon's production system architecture.

• 1967 - the first influential general textbook devoted to the exposition (and criticism) of the ``new science'' was released: Ulric Neisser's Cognitive Psychology. It gave the name to this field.

• mid 1970s - Sloan Foundation gave major funding to Cognitive Science initiatives.

• 1977 - First issue of the journal Cognitive Science.

Some recent themes in psychological thought: have implications for research as well as pedagogy.