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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Congratulations to our 2024 Undergraduate Scholarship Award Winners

This Scholarship is awarded annually to outstanding undergraduate students who are proceeding from one year to the next in a degree program within the Department of Cognitive Science at CU.                   Our three winners for 2024 are: Amanda Schmidt Zoe Roy-Stang Faisal LeJeune... More

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Odin Ramsey Fisher-Skau awarded Chancellor’s Medal for 2024

The Department of Cognitive Science is pleased to announce that Odin Ramsey Fisher-Skau has been awarded the Chancellor’s Medal at the 2024 Spring Convocation. He graduated with a Bachelor of Cognitive Science with a Concentration in Cognition and Psychology achieving a perfect CGPA of 12.0 The Chancellor’s Medal(s) are awarded to the... More

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Audibility and Aging Brains: How Hearing Loss Increases Risk of Dementia

Audibility and Aging Brains: How Hearing Loss Increases Risk of Dementia | Carleton... More

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Carleton’s FIVE University Medal Winners in Cognitive Science

The entire Department of Cognitive Science wishes to Congratulate a record FIVE Undergraduate students being awarded each a University Medal in Cognitive Science in this Spring’s 2024 Convocation. The five award winners include: Meagan Choo-Kang In her words: I did not originally intend to go into cognitive science. I discovered this program by... More

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Cog Sci Departmental Admin John Tracey is Retiring

Friday, June 28th will be John Tracey's last day of work as the Departmental Administrator with the Department of Cognitive Science. He has been the Department's Administrator for 10 of his 40 years of full time employment at Carleton University.... More

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Jim Davies interviewed about the future effects of deepfake technology on media trust and journalism

Jim Davies is interviewed by Grace Oborne on Midweek, from the Carleton University School of Journalism about the future impact of deepfake technology on journalism. Listen at time 44:40 to 47:40.... More

Monday, April 15, 2024

Minding the Brain on Fake News

A new episode of the Minding the Brain podcast is out. In this month's episode Jim Davies interviews Dr. Gordon Pennycook on the psychology of fake news. Are people actually being irrational when they believe it? This episode has both audio and video versions!... More

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Kathryn Jajo-Yacoub Wins 2024 Provost Scholar Award

Funded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and administered by Teaching and Learning Services, the Provost Scholar Award is valued at $1,000 and is given to undergraduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in research, community engagement, immersive learning and/or international activities. Kathryn... More

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards 2023 Recipients

About the Award The Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) are meant to stimulate a student's interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering. Students work closely together with eligible FASS faculty that can supervise their research. The awards are also meant to encourage students to undertake graduate studies and pursue a... More

Monday, April 1, 2024

Brendan Conway-Smith speaks at Stanford University

Brendan Conway-Smith speaks at Stanford University, at the AAAI 2024 Spring Symposium. Brendan presents his paper 'Toward Autonomy: Metacognitive Learning for Enhanced AI Performance,' co-authored with Robert L. West. The paper proposes adding meta-learning into AI systems, to achieve more autonomous learning and problem-solving... More

Monday, March 25, 2024

2024 Carleton Cognitive Science Graduate Conference

2024 Carleton Cognitive Science Graduate Conference - Department of Cognitive... More

Thursday, March 21, 2024

AI for Small Businesses: Prof. Raj Singh’s contribution

Cognitive Science's professor Raj Singh has been working as a partner with a fintech company, PaymentEvolution, based out of Toronto. Importantly, they also highlight the contributions of one of our grad students, Katie Van Luven, who has done outstanding work on the project. For detailed information please see here.      ... More

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