Abstract
Cognitive science is a child of the 1950s, the product of
a time when psychology, anthropology and linguistics
were redefining themselves and computer science and
neuroscience as disciplines were coming into existence.
Psychology could not participate in the cognitive
revolution until it had freed itself from behaviorism,
thus restoring cognition to scientific respectability. By
then, it was becoming clear in several disciplines that
the solution to some of their problems depended crucially
on solving problems traditionally allocated to
other disciplines. Collaboration was called for: this is a
personal account of how it came about.