ABSTRACT
The chapter begins with a description of some of the key people in the early days of cognitive science in the 1950s, and shows how the fact that each of them had strong interdisciplinary interests was important for getting the field underway. It describes how a number of universities in the 1960s and 1970s provided fertile places where cognitive science work could develop, and explores how the cognitive science society and the journal cognitive science began to contribute to interdisciplinary work. As a more specific example of interdisciplinary research in cognitive science, the chapter describes how understanding of analogical thinking has improved dramatically as the result of people, places, organizations, ideas, and methods. It concludes with a summary of what the discussion of trading zones in cognitive science contributes to understanding of the past successes and future prospects of cognitive science.
