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===Birth of cognitive science=== On September 11, 1956, a large-scale meeting of [[Cognitivism (psychology)|cognitivists]] took place at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]. [[George Armitage Miller|George A. Miller]] presented his "[[The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two]]" paper<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Miller |doi=10.1037/h0043158 |pmid=13310704|year=1956 |title=The magical number seven plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information |journal=Psychological Review |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=81β97 |citeseerx=10.1.1.308.8071 }}</ref> while [[Noam Chomsky]] and [[Allen Newell|Newell]] & [[Herbert A. Simon|Simon]] presented their findings on [[computer science]]. [[Ulric Neisser]] commented on many of the findings at this meeting in his 1967 book ''Cognitive Psychology''. The term "psychology" had been waning in the 1950s and 1960s, causing the field to be referred to as "cognitive science". Behaviorists such as Miller began to focus on the representation of language rather than general behavior. [[David Marr (psychologist)|David Marr]] concluded that one should understand any cognitive process at three levels of analysis. These levels include computational, algorithmic/representational, and physical levels of analysis.<ref name="weebly.com">{{cite web|url=http://jungminded.weebly.com/7/post/2013/01/approaches-in-cognitive-psychology.html|title=Approaches in Cognitive Psychology|website=JungMinded}}</ref>
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