# Mind, Body, World - Foundations of Cognitive Science

- By: Michael R. W. Dawson
- Publisher: University of Alberta
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Perhaps owing to the field's origins in cybernetics, as well as to the foundational assumption that cognition is information processing, cognitive science initially seemed more unified than psychology. However, as a result of differing interpretations of the foundational assumption and dramatically divergent views of the meaning of the term information processing, three separate schools emerged: classical cognitive science, connectionist cognitive science, and embodied cognitive science.