The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a renowned expert in the field of cognitive science.

Today’s episode is with Molly Potter, who did ground-breaking work developing new methods for studying how our brains extract and store information from the world around us. She also had the chance to see some of the important moments in the creation of cognitive science firsthand.

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The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a professor of psychology and computer science.

The first story in the series is that of Jerome Bruner, who was really the person who helped to launch the cognitive revolution. In the first half of the 20th century, psychologists decided that if they wanted to be scientists they should study behavior and its causes rather than subjective impressions and mental states. Bruner intentionally ran experiments that revealed the limits of this approach and started to show how mathematical ideas could be used to create a rigorous science of the mind.

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