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Facilities

The Department of Cognitive Science currently occupies the top floor of the 22-storey Dunton Tower at Carleton University.

In January 2007, the V-Sim building was opened and is now home to a wealth of interdisciplinary research facilities linked to Cognitive Science researchers.

Laboratory Facilities

Laboratory facilities are available for three kinds of activities:

For experimental investigations into cognitive processes, students in the program will have available the laboratories of the members of the Cognitive Science core faculty whose disciplinary appointment is in Psychology. This includes the Aviation and Cognitive Engineering lab, the Math Cognition Lab, the Speech Lab, the Cognitive Modelling Lab, the Cognitive Development Lab and the Language and Brain Lab.

For research into language, students will have available both the facilities of the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton, including sound booths, facilities for videotaping, and experiment rooms, and the Linguistics facilities at the University of Ottawa, including equipment for acoustic analysis, articulatory analysis, and psycholinguistic research.

Computer Facilities

Research requiring significant computational power is done in the School of Computer Science’s Intelligent Systems Lab, or in Dr. West’s Cognitive Modeling Lab. This provides easy access to a number of high-speed machines for running computational simulations as well as a video editing suite for creating stimuli for experiments.

Students also have access to Carleton’s central academic computer facilities. In total, there are 30 computer labs in 10 different buildings across campus. ITS Managed Services has an extensive array of software, including word processing, statistical, and web development packages.

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