ABSTRACT
The emergence of a journal and a society indicated that 20 years after the revolution, cognitive science had become established as an academic discipline. At the research front where the action might tend to be more heterodox than orthodox, there are not only opportunities but there is also the need for intradisciplinary discussion, debate, and collaboration. Thus, as a mature cognitive science moves into its second 50 years, interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary collaboration is an appropriate theme for research in cognitive science. A fundamental insight that emerged early on in the cognitive revolution is that humans are not passive communication channels but active information processors. Neuroscience, particularly at the systems level, and neuropsychology had made considerable progress in understanding brain mechanisms that might be relevant to human cognition. From a cognitive perspective, there are interesting parallels between the rehabilitation of head-injury patients and educational practice.
