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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Dr. Jim Davies appears on the podcast “Spark My Muse”

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

“How we make mistakes when predicting our own futures” by Dr. Jim Davies

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

Cake or ice cream? Researchers dish on why kids often choose ‘both’

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

“Why children confuse simple words Study”

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”

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

Mr. Daniel DiGiovanni successfully defends his Master Thesis

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

New blog entry on the Psychology Today website by Carleton Cognitive Science’s Jim Davies.

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

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Ms. Deidre Kelly successfully defends her Ph.D. Dissertation

On April 29th Ms. Deidre Kelly successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation titled "A Dual-Process Account of Moral Judgment: What Psychopaths Can Teach Us About Morality".  The Chair was Dr. Jason Etele, and the External Examiner was Dr. Verena Gottschling and the Internal Examiner was Dr. Ivan Zinger.  The Committee consisted Dr. Andrew... More

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Ms. Marly Mageau successfully defends her Master Thesis

On April 25th, Marly successfully defended her Master’s thesis titled “Foreign accents in song and speech”.  The Chair was Dr. John Logan, and the Internal Examiner was Dr. Anna Hoefnagels, and the Committee consisted of Dr. Ida Toivonen, Dr. Lev Blumenfeld and Dr. Beth MacLeod. In her thesis, Marly showed that it is more... More

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Mr. Luke Kersten successfully defends MasterThesis

Mr. Luke Kersten successfully defended his Master's Thesis titled "Leveling the Field: Talking Levels in Cognitive Science".  The committee consisted of  the following:   Chair, Dr. Kasia Muldner; Co-Supervisors, Dr. Andrew Brook and Dr. Robert West; Committee Member, Dr. Vincent Bergeron, and the Internal Examiner, Dr. Craig Leth-Steensen.... More

Friday, April 29, 2016

5 New F/W Contract Instructor Positions Available

The Institute of Cognitive Science has made available five new 2016/17 Fall/Winter Contract Instructor positions. The deadline to apply with the appropriate application and documentation is May 20th, 2016. Please find detailed information with each of the job descriptions... More

Thursday, April 21, 2016

New article by ICS’s Raj Singh

The current volume of the journal Cognitive Science has an article by ICS's Raj Singh, co-authored with Evelina Fedorenko, Kyle Mahowald, and Edward Gibson, all from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. The article is titled "Accommodating presuppositions is inappropriate in implausible contexts", and can be found... More

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