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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Dr. Aryn Pyke (Pike), a graduate of Cognitive Science (Ph.D. 2009) recently published an interesting paper with co-authors John Anderson and Jon Fincham in which they used a unique combination of brain scanning and modelling to show the stages of mental processing for math problems.... More
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Jim Davies, of Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science, has published a blog entry for the science magazine Nautilus about what dreams are for.... More
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Dr. Jim Davies, of Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science, appears on the Youniversity podcast, talking about the power of imagination.... More
Thursday, June 30, 2016
At the June 2016 Convocation Luke Kersten won a Senate Medal for his Master's in Cognitive Science. In his own words: "The Cognitive Science program has been a fantastic place to work and study over the past two years. I have been fortunate enough to meet and engage with a number of excellent students... More
Monday, June 20, 2016
Marly Mageau, a recent graduate of the M.Cog.Sc. Program, has explored why several of her favourite musical artists sounded completely different in their songs compared to their interviews. This is the story on her... More
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Jim Davies, of Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science, appears on the podcast "Spark My Muse," talking about imagination. ... More
Thursday, June 9, 2016
Jim Davies, of Carleton University's cognitive science department, has published a blog entry for the science magazine Nautilus about how we make mistakes when predicting our own futures. ... More
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
This morning, the Institute of Cognitive Science's Dr. Raj Singh was interviewed by CBC Ottawa Morning's Robyn Bresnahan as a result of a study that he and Dr. Deepthi Kamawar are co- authors in. To view the written article click here. The co-authored study is also being published in Natural Language Semantics, an international... More
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
Two Professors from the Institute of Cognitive Science, Dr. Deepthi Kamawar and Dr. Raj Singh in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have completed a study involving children between 3 - 6 years of age. Why children confuse simple words Study: Kids have “and/or” problem despite sophisticated... More
Thursday, May 19, 2016
Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies appeared on the podcast "The Reality Check" to talk about the psychology of the droids of Star Wars.... More
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Daniel Di Giovanni successfully defended his Master’s thesis on April 27. The title of the thesis is “Neural and predictive effects of verb argument structure”. The Chair for the Defense was John Logan and the examiner was Dr. Beth MacLeod, and the committee consisted of Dr. Georg Northoff, Dr. Ida Toivonen and Dr. Dan Siddiqi.... More
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
If the history of life on Earth were a pool, how much water would represent your life? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-imagination/201605/if-history-were-pool-how-much-water-would-your-life-be. ... More
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