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Thursday, April 28, 2022

8 New Contract Instructor Positions: 2022-23 Fall/Winter

Cognitive Science has just listed eight new Contract Instructor positions for Fall/Winter 2022-22. Please find them at this link. Note that the deadline for all applications with CVs is Friday, May 20,... More

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Challenging the Declines Associated with Aging Brains with Prof. John Anderson

Carleton University cognitive science researcher and Canada Research Chair John Anderson, director of the Cognition and Neuroscience of Aging Lab, wants to help optimize the cognitive performance of older adults. You can read more about this on an article by Dan Rubinstein found... More

Friday, March 18, 2022

John Anderson receives a Carleton Research Achievement Award

March 18, 2022 To All Members of the Carleton Community, Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the annual Achievement Awards, which are presented in recognition of the research and teaching distinction of Carleton’s academic staff. Pursuing knowledge that can change the world is central to Carleton’s core mission. Carleton... More

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Colloquium: Visuospatial Working Memory of Humans and Chimpanzees: A possible Influence of Language on Recall

Date:  30th March 2022 - 3:00pm-4:30pm Title:  Visuospatial Working Memory of Humans and Chimpanzees: A possible Influence of Language on Recall Location: Join Zoom Meeting https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/92700176612 Meeting ID: Online Speaker: Nadine Charanek   Abstract:  In recent years, most researchers have been interested in unravelling the... More

Friday, March 11, 2022

Tuition should be free says Professor Raj Singh

Cognitive Science's Professor Raj Singh has an op-ed published in today's Toronto Star. In the piece, he argues for increased public investment in higher education, and in particular for free... More

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Colloquium: Novelty rejection in episodic memory

Colloquium: Novelty rejection in episodic memory - Department of Cognitive Science (carleton.ca) Date: Wednesday, 16th Mar 2022 – 3:00pm-4:30pm Title:  Novelty rejection in episodic memory Location: Online Speaker: : Dr. Adam Osth Abstract: Episodic memory theories have postulated that in recognition memory, a given probe is accepted or... More

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Colloquium: An instance model of associative inference

Date : Wednesday, March 2 2022 - 3:00pm-4:30pm Title:  An instance model of associative inference Location: Online Speaker: :  Dr. Randall K. Jamieson Abstract: People make intuitive inferences all the time. For example, after observing that people who take drugs A and B are cured of a headache, people tend to infer that both drugs are... More

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Jim Davies on how AI lags behind the Brain’s computational power

Jim Davies writes about how current AI lags far behind the brain's computational power in Nautilus Magazine. Published October 27, 2021. https://nautil.us/why-ai-lags-behind-the-human-brain-in-computational-power-13069/... More

Friday, January 28, 2022

Colloquium: Developing a cognitive approach to the study of human crowd dynamics from interdisciplinary perspectives

Date: Wednesday, February 2 2022 @3:30PM -04:30PM Title: Developing a cognitive approach to the study of human crowd dynamics from interdisciplinary perspectives Location: Online  Speaker: Tarampi, Margaret  Abstract: Most crowd-related disasters can be attributed to human behavior, or to the design of the built environment. The existing... More

Friday, January 28, 2022

Jim Davies on the science of happiness

Jim Davies appears on the CRAM podcast, talking about the science of having a happier life. (25m)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6843-Pgbnrk ... More

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Jim Davies on an AI that can make ethical judgments

Jim Davies writes in Nautilus magazine about a new AItrained to make ethical decisions.... More

Friday, January 14, 2022

Colloquium: Student Emotions in Productive Failure

Date: Wednesday, January 19 2022 @3:30PM -04:30PM Title: Student Emotions in Productive Failure Location: Online Speaker: Zach Savelson Abstract: Productive failure (PF) is a learning paradigm that reverses the standard order of instruction by asking students to solve problems prior to instruction. This paradigm has been shown to be effective for... More

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