Historical Map of the Cognitive Sciences: An Attempt

This map is a macroscopic, historical, trans-disciplinary introduction to (the) cognitive science(s).
Moving from left to right, the map is read in a roughly historical fashion, but not literally, as we are compressing a n-dimensional intellectual space into a two dimensional map grid.
Unfortunately there is no way to generate an educational map that has everyone and everything on it. As such, there is always someone who should be on the map who is not.
The attempt of abstracting from reality always asks the question of (the most) relevance, in this case primarily to an beginner audience and especially students of the MEi:CogSci programme.
A big thank you, goes to Prof. Igor Farkas, who let me spend big parts of my project time reading up and creating this map. This project took place during my Erasmus stay at the Department of Applied Informatics (at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics) of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia)
Next to educating others, one goal was to sort out my own understanding of (the) cognitive science(s). Externally representing my current understanding enables fruitful discussions about where I am wrong, what parts I misrepresented and what my blindspots are, what I left out. I am eager to change my mind and adapt the visualisation in the process. Contact me via annariedl dot office at gmail or the feedback form below.

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