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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 that the key components of cognitive architectures (declarative and procedural memory) and their key capabilities (learning, memory retrieval, probability... 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 : 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... 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 once (the “Netflix” model) in this article in Academic Matters. ... More

Monday, September 27, 2021

A Passion for Perennial Learning: Cog Sci’s Dr. Andy Brook

Read how easy it was and why Dr. Andy Brook set up an award for Graduate... More

Monday, September 27, 2021

Colloquium: Cognitive Control Determines the Fate of Memory Representations

Date: Wednesday, Sep 29 2021 @03:30PM -04:30PM Title: Cognitive Control Determines the Fate of Memory Representations Location: Online Speaker: Tarek Amer Abstract: Cognitive control, or the ability to selectively focus attention on task-relevant information, while simultaneously ignoring task-irrelevant information, supports performance across... More

Thursday, September 23, 2021

New Contract Instructor position available: CGSC 3201B (Winter 2022)

The Department of Cognitive Science is looking for a Contract Instructor to teach CGSC 3201B for the Winter 2022 term. For more information please click here. Note that applications are due by Friday, October... More

Thursday, May 6, 2021

GRADflix: Your Research in 60 Seconds

Cognitive Science Graduate Student Brendan Conway-Smith participated in "GRADflix: Your Research in 60 Seconds". He prepared a video that describes his research "Modeling Metacognition" in one minute. Here is the link to video : 2021 Carleton University GRADflix submission: Brendan Conway-Smith -... More

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Jim Davies wrote a funny dialogue on how the brain works

Jim Davies published a humorous dialogue where different parts of someone’s brain argue about how to walk a dog. In Nautilus Magazine. https://nautil.us/blog/this-is-how-your-brain-walks-the-doga-dialogue... More

Monday, April 26, 2021

6 New F/W 2021-22 Contract Instructor positions available

Cognitive Science announces that six new Contract Instructor positions are available to apply to for the 2021/22 Fall/Winter terms. Note the deadline of May 21, 2021. To see the courses and to obtain applications please click HERE.... More

Friday, April 23, 2021

CogSci student Kenda Parsons awarded NSERC Summer Internship

Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) are meant to stimulate interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering. This year’s NSERC Summer Internship was awarded to two students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. A special Congratulations to Kenda Parsons. Kenda is a student in the Department of Cognitive Science and is... More

Monday, April 12, 2021

Cog Sci student Kyle Grant wins a FASS Summer Research Intern Stipend

The FASS Undergraduate Summer Research Internship program provides senior undergraduate students with an opportunity to conduct independent research during the summer months, under the supervision of a FASS faculty member.  Each student receives a research stipend of $7500 to support their research. Cognitive Science and Psychology student Kyle... More

Monday, March 29, 2021

Cog. Sci. Colloquium: Can we improve future thinking in children with an episodic specificity induction?

Date: March 31, 2021 03:00-04:30 PM Speakers: Annick Tanguay, Olivia Gardam Title: Can we improve future thinking in children with an episodic specificity induction? Location: Online Abstract Future thinking permeates a host of activities in daily life, including foregoing an unhealthy treat, saving money, remembering to finish one’s homework,... More

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