The Center for Cognitive Sciences at the University of Minnesota presents the
They've done it for novels, movies, and who knows what else! And now, with your help, we have compiled a list of the 100 most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century.

Here's how we did it:

We asked everyone to send nominations to us via this web site. Nominations closed on December 1st 1999. In total, 305 scholarly works and one movie were nominated. We appointed an esteemed panel of experts to evaluate these nominations and to arrived at the rank-ordered list of the top one hundred entries.

Now you can:

  • View the list of nominations
    See which papers almost made it onto the top 100 list.
  • View the top 100 works
    Professors, would your students like to be quizzed on these works in their qualifying exams? Students, ask your professors how many of these works they've actually read

We invite you to send us your comments, thoughts, and opinions, on the nominations and the final list.

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