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Thursday, October 10, 2019

ICS Colloquium:Modelling Mental Imagery

Date: October 16, 2019 3:00pm-4:30pm  Location: Dunton Tower: Room 2203 Speaker: Sean Riley: Title: Modelling Mental Imagery Abstract: The “mind’s eye” has long been of interest to cognitive science, yet despite decades of research spanning philosophy, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology, a formal understanding of mental imagery’s... More

Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Minding the Brain won the People’s Choice Award

Minding the Brain won the People's Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Science Site, from the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada! Minding the Brain is a podcast produced at Carleton University by Jim Davies (Cognitive Science) and Kim Hellemans (Neuroscience). Thanks to everyone who voted and to listeners!... More

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Jim Davies published in Nautilus about the similarities of remembering and imagining

Carleton University’s Jim Davies, of the Institute of Cognitive Science, published in Nautilus magazine about the brain similarities of remembering and imagining. http://nautil.us/blog/the-neural-similarities-between-remembering-and-imagining... More

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Cog Sci Professors Muldner and Jouravlev discuss their Research

Cognitive Science Professors' Kasia Muldner and Olessia Jouravlev are interviewed by Kim Sigouin for the FASS newsletter about their research. Click below to see the whole article. https://carleton.ca/fass/story/two-up-and-coming-cognitive-science-researchers/... More

Tuesday, September 24, 2019

ICS Colloquium: Explanation and Artificial Neural Networks

Date: October 02, 2019 3:00pm-4:30pm Location: Dunton Tower: Room 2203  Speaker: Andre Vellino  Title: Explanation and Artificial Neural Networks Abstract: As machine, learning systems become increasingly better than humans at making optimal choices, our ability and willingness to trust these choices will depend on their ability to also... More

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

ICS Colloquium: Virtual Fire – Real Behavior: Perception and action during fire evacuation

Date: September 25, 2019 3:00pm-4:30pm  Location: Dunton Tower: Room 2203  Speaker: Max Kinateder  Title: Virtual Fire – Real Behavior: Perception and action during fire evacuation Abstract: Why do people sometimes not evacuate when necessary? How is behavior guided by the social and architectural environment in emergencies? Fire evacuation... More

Monday, September 16, 2019

Minding the Brain Podcast nominated for a science award

Minding the Brain made it into the top five nominated science media for this year's People's Choice Award for Favourite Canadian Science Site, from the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada! Minding the Brain is a podcast produced at Carleton University by Jim Davies (Cognitive Science) and Kim Hellemans (Neuroscience). ... More

Monday, September 9, 2019

Jim Davies on Rogers TV about multitasking

Jim Davies, of Carleton University’s Institute of Cognitive Science, appears on Rogers TV, talking about the benefits and drawbacks of multitasking, particularly in regards to study habits. https://youtu.be/tQfkaTBZOMM  ... More

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

ICS Talks: Research in developmental numerical cognition: The case of Chile

When: Sep 11, 2019 Time: 04:00 PM Location: DT 2203 Speaker: Christian Peake Title: Research in developmental numerical cognition: The case of Chile Peake, C.1 & Susperreguy, M.I.2 Faculty of Education, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile Faculty of Education, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,... More

Thursday, August 29, 2019

Jim Davies on burnout

Jim Davies, of Carleton’s Institute of Cognitive Science, appears on the radio show “The Goods” with Dahlia Kurtz, on CFRA 580am. This June 2, 2019 episode explores burnout.... More

Monday, July 29, 2019

Detecting foreign accents in song

Current and former ICS students publish a journal article. Title "Detecting foreign accents in song". Authors: Marly Mageau, Can Mekik, Ashley Sokalski, Ida Toivonen.  Journal: Phonetica.... More

Friday, July 5, 2019

Jim Davies interviews a man who hears voices on Minding the Brain

Jim Davies interviews a man who hears voices in his head, and how he has learned to deal with them. Learn the story of Gregory Shankland on the latest episode of the Minding the Brain Podcast. ... More

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