Department of Cognitive Science

COVID-19 Information

Following the advice of Ottawa Public Health, the Ontario Ministry of Health, Public Health Ontario and the Public Health Agency of Canada, Carleton University has closed all non-essential services. During this time, The Department of Cognitive Science will be operating online, and staff will be working remotely.

The Department has shifted all course instruction to online formats, and all departmental events, including our colloquia series, are cancelled until further notice.

For support, please contact cogsci@carleton.ca, and your email will be relayed to the appropriate contact.

For more information, please visit Carleton’s Coronavirus page.

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News

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Colloquium: High-Dimensional Vector Spaces As the Architecture of Cognition

Date: Wednesday, Oct 20 2021 @03:30PM -04:30PM Location: Online Title: High-Dimensional Vector Spaces As the Architecture of Cognition Speaker: M. Alex Kelly Abstract: We demonstrate... More

Date: Wednesday, Oct 20 2021 @03:30PM -04:30PM Location: Online Title: High-Dimensional Vector Spaces As the Architecture of Cognition Speaker: M. Alex Kelly Abstract: We demonstrate that the key components of cognitive architectures (declarative and procedural memory) and their key capabilities (learning, memory retrieval, probability judgment, and... More

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Cog.Sc. Colloquium: Learning what the world looks like from first-person video: challenges and opportunities

Date: October 13, 2021 - 3:00pm-4:30pm Title: Learning what the world looks like from first-person video: challenges and opportunities Location :... More

Date: October 13, 2021 - 3:00pm-4:30pm Title: Learning what the world looks like from first-person video: challenges and opportunities Location : Online Speaker: Michelle Greene Abstract: A central tenet of sensory neuroscience is that the visual system is honed through evolution and/or development to have exquisite sensitivity to the statistics of its... More

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Should instructors release all of the lectures at the beginning of the semester?

Jim Davies finds that releasing all of your pre-recorded lectures week by week (the Disney+ model) isn’t any better than releasing them all at... More

Jim Davies finds that releasing all of your pre-recorded lectures week by week (the Disney+ model) isn’t any better than releasing them all at once (the “Netflix” model) in this article in Academic Matters. https://www.universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/is-sharing-recorded-lectures-all-at-once-as-effective-as-releasing-them-week-by-week/... More