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Thursday, January 6, 2022

Jim Davies on TV about New Year’s Resolutions

Jim Davies appears on CTV about how to keep your new year's resolutions. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2351884 ... More

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

2022 Spring/Summer Cog Sci Contract Instructor Positions Available

Four Spring/Summer 2022 positions are available. To view the specific courses, job descriptions and application forms please click here. Note that all applications (complete with your CV) are due on January 5, 2022. Please also indicate your Citizenship on your CV. Thank you and good luck in your... More

Monday, November 29, 2021

Colloquium: Visual Perspectives in Memories for Events

Date: Wednesday 1 December 2021 – 3:00pm-4:30pm Title: Visual Perspectives in Memories for Events Location: Online Speaker: Peggy L. St. Jacques, PhD Abstract: Memories for events, including autobiographical experiences, can be retrieved from an own eyes perspective, how events are typically formed, or from an observer-like perspective in which... More

Monday, November 29, 2021

Jim Davies on why time seems to pass differently now

Jim Davies is interviewed by the CBC about why time seems to pass differently during the pandemic.... More

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Colloquium: Bey, Bay, or Bae: Cultural Considerations for Cognitive Science Research Methods

Date: Wednesday 17 Nov 2021 - 3:00pm-4:30pm Title: Bey, Bay, or Bae: Cultural Considerations for Cognitive Science Research Methods Location: Online Speaker: Rihana S. Mason, Ph.D. - Urban Child Study Center, Georgia State University Abstract: There is a renewed focus on ensuring that psychological research is usable and useful for all... More

Thursday, November 11, 2021

How metacognition — thinking about thinking — can improve the mental-health crisis

Cognitive Science PhD student Brendan Conway-Smith writes in "The Conversation" about how metacognition — thinking about thinking — can improve the mental-health crisis. How metacognition — thinking about thinking — can improve the mental-health crisis... More

Friday, October 29, 2021

5 ways sorting Halloween candy can help children develop mathematics skills

Dr. Heather Douglas, adjunct research professor in Cognitive Science, and her colleagues have an article in the Conversation about using Halloween candy to support children’s math learning. https://theconversation.com/5-ways-sorting-halloween-candy-can-help-children-develop-mathematics-skills-170350 ... More

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