History of the terms "cognitive science", "neuroscience", and "psychology"

• 1. "mentalism"/ subjectivity was of course the initial approach to psychology ( 1510-> )
• 2. Watson 1913 was a paper that flipped the focus to "behaviourism"/ objectivity
• 3. Chomsky 1959 flipped some focus back to mentalism, which was rebranded by Neisser 1967 as "cognitive psychology" - its subfield, "cognitive linguistics" was then a brand claimed by up to three major factions
• 4. Longuet-Higgins 1973 coined "cognitive science" finally

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• A. Meanwhile "neuroscience" was Schmitt 1962