Cognitive Revolution

George Miller

The magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two
(quantification of the capacity of our working
memories in a series of behavioral tests.

Newell Shaw
and Simon

Logic Theorist

First computer program stimulating
human problem solving.

Noam Chomsky

Father of modern linguistics theory

Wrote synthetic structures based on
findings from the shadowing and
dichotic listening.

Donald Broadbent

Introduced filter model of Attention.

Neisser

First Father of Cognitive Psychology Book

Coined the term cognitive psychology

Emphasized information-processing
approach to studying mind.

Tolman

Introduction and removal of reward,
and maze performance in rats.

Created cognitive map

Claude Shannon

Created Information Theory

Binary digit as an atomic unit
of information in term of energy

Alan Turing

Father of modern Computing
machinery and Intelligence

Specified a Theoretical machine (touring machine) which is basis for all modern computing.

Cherry

Attention experiment

Carried out studies using a shadowing task

Also known as "the cocktail party problem".

Information is selected on the
basis of the physical characteristics

John McCarthy

In a proposal written for famous Dartmouth
conference coined the term artificial
intelligence and created computer
programming (AI) language LISP in 1958.