Cognitive Revolution

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Summary

The Cognitive Revolution was a mid-20th-century shift in psychology that refocused the field on the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, memory, language, and problem solving. It emerged in response to the limits of strict behaviorism and was propelled by developments in linguistics, computer science, information theory, and neuroscience. This movement introduced the mind-as-information-processor metaphor, emphasized internal representations, and advanced rigorous experimental and computational methods. Its legacy underpins modern cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience, with wide applications in education, clinical practice, AI, and human-computer interaction.