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Thursday, September 7, 2017

Jim Davies: New article – How We Can Catch a Ball When We Don’t Know Where It Will Be

  Jim Davies, of Carleton University’s Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science, has a post on the Psychology Today blog that was selected as an essential topic. It describes his research done with Carleton Cognitive Science Ph.D. student Jay Jennings on how our minds use two different ideas of how objects... More

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Jim Davies: New Chapters In “Star Trek Psychology: The Mental Frontier”

Jim Davies, of Carleton University’s Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science, has published two book chapters in the new book Star Trek Psychology: The Mental Frontier. One is about creativity and the design of Star Trek’s aliens, and the other is about the representation of artificial intelligence in the Star Trek... More

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Jim Davies: New article – Why You Shouldn’t Tell People about Your Dreams

Jim Davies, of Carleton University’s Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science, has published an article in the Scientific American website about why you should not tell people about your dreams.        ... More

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Jim Davies’s “Riveted” translated into Russian

Cognitive Science’s professor Jim Davies book Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe has been translated into Russian Language. The book can be purchased online at http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/32579951/... More

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Dr. Courtney Humeny Graduated with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science

Dr. Humeny (Second from the left) with her partner, father, and brother (Left to right).   Dr. Courtney Humeny Graduated with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science last month, 16th June. Dr. Humeny’s Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Dr. John Logan. Dr. Humeny shared her experience in the program: “My biggest take away from the... More

Monday, June 19, 2017

Dr. Wahida Chowdhury Graduates with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science

  Dr. Wahida Chowdhury graduated with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science last Friday, June 16th . The attached photo shows Dr. Chowdhury (center) with her PhD supervisors  Dr. Warren Thorngate (left) and Dr. Robert Biddle (right). Dr. Chowdhury related the following  experiences in the program “When I started the Cognitive Science program, I... More

Friday, June 16, 2017

Jim Davies: New article – Consciousness and Real-World Ethical Implications

Jim Davies, of Carleton University’s Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science, has an article on the blog for Nautilus magazine about how the understanding of consciousness has real-world ethical implications http://nautil.us/blog/the-moral-importance-of-understanding-consciousness          ... More

Monday, June 12, 2017

Kunio Hessel wins University Medal in Cognitive Science

The institute of Cognitive Science is proud to announce that Kunio Hessel has won the University Medal for Cognitive Science for 2017. Mr. Hessel will be graduating on Friday, June 16th at the 9:30am ceremony. More information about Kunio Hessel can be found... More

Friday, June 9, 2017

ICS Professor Kasia Muldner wins 2017 CU Teaching Award

The office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and the office of the Associate Vice-President (Teaching and Learning) are pleased to announce the outstanding educators who have been named 2017 Carleton University Teaching Award winners. Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching Award: Véronic Bezaire (Department of Chemistry) New Faculty... More

Friday, June 9, 2017

ICS students publish article (with Faculty) in Bilingualism Journal

Former ICS undergraduate student Leah Hoiting and current ICS Master's student Leyna Sanger just co-published a journal article in the International Journal of Bilingualism with Carleton University Faculty members Kasia Muldner (ICS), Lev Blumenfeld (SLALS/ICS) and Ida Toivonen(ICS/SLALS). The article is about how French-English bilingual... More

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Marie-Odile Junker preserves Indigenous Languages and wins a G.G. Award

Dr. Marie-Odile Junker (Linguistics and Cognitive Science) was recently presented with a Governor General's award. For the whole story follow the link below:... More

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Dr. Jim Davies speaks about predicting the future, and the biases we have about it.

Jim Davies, of Carleton University’s Institute of Cognitive Science, was featured on American radio station WNPR, talking about how hard it is to predict the future, and the biases we have about it. Dr. Davies appears at time 21:10. You can listen to the show at:... More

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