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Cognitive science at fifty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2009

A. Charles Catania
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, MD 21250. [email protected]://www.umbc.edu/psyc/personal/catania/catanias.html

Abstract

Fifty years or so after the cognitive revolution, some cognitive accounts seem to be converging on treatments of how we come to know about ourselves and others that have much in common with behavior analytic accounts. Among the factors that keep the accounts separate is that behavioral accounts take a much broader view of what counts as behavior.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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