The term cognitive science was coined by Christopher Longuet-Higgins in his 1973 commentary on the Lighthill report, which concerned the then-current state of Artificial Intelligence research.
Naziv kognitivna znanost je stvorio Christopher Longuet-Higgins u svom komentaru iz 1973. na izvještaj Lighthill koji se bavio tadašnjim stanjem na polju istraživanja umjetne inteligencije.