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Monday, June 15, 2015

Why do we swipe right on Tinder for interest, and not left? And what does that have to do with the movie “The Matrix?”

Jim Davies explores this topic in a new blog entry on Nautilus.... More

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The strange disgust reaction many people have to the word “moist.”

Cognitive Science professor Jim Davies writes on the Nautilus Magazine blog about the strange disgust reaction many people have to the word "moist."... More

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Why Facebook is the Junk Food of Socializing

Cognitive science professor Jim Davies writes in Nautilus Magazine about how we mistake inanimate things for people.  http://nautil.us/blog/why-facebook-is-the-junk-food-of-socializing... More

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Six New Contract Instructor Positions available for Fall/Winter 2015-16

Deadline for applications is June 23rd, 2015. Please see here for Positions and application... More

Monday, June 1, 2015

Application: ICS to sponsor an individual for a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University is interested in sponsoring an individual for a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.  The general requirements for the competition are at: https://carleton.ca/curo/2015/funding-opp-banting-postdoctoral-fellowships-program/ We are most interested in candidates who have expertise in empirical... More

Friday, May 22, 2015

Kathleen Van Benthem has successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis in Cognitive Science

We are pleased to announce that Kathleen Van Benthem has successfully defended and filed her thesis for the Ph.D. in Cognitive Science! Her thesis entitled “Identifying Latent Cognitive Constructs in a Comprehensive Model of Aviation Outcomes; The Role of Dynamic Mental Model for Pilots” was successfully defended on April 23, 2015. The... More

Friday, May 22, 2015

Olivia Podlesny has successfully defended her MCogSc Thesis

We are pleased to announce that Olivia Podlesny has successfully defended and filed her MCogSc! Her thesis, Investigating disjunction in American Sign Language: The importance of non-manual signals and the influence of English, is a valuable addition to the literature. It provides new experimental data, as well as historical and formal analyses,... More

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

TEDxCarletonU talk on imagining the future by Jim Davies

The Institute of Cognitive Science's Dr. Jim Davies spoke recently at TEDxCarletonU about the mistakes we make when we imagine the future and what steps we can take to overcome them. The 14 minute video is now available at:... More

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Roxana-Maria Barbu successfully defends her MCogSc Thesis

Congratulations to Ms. Roxana-Maria Barbu. The title of her MCogSc thesis is "Verbs and participants: Non linguists' intuitions". Ms. Barbu's research is very interesting and a true contribution to the field.  Her work will help us better understand the mapping between semantics and syntax. The committee was made up of Dr. Ida Toivonen, Dr.... More

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Jim Davies writes about how popularity feeds on itself in music preferences

See Carleton's Jim Davies's article in the blog of Nautilus Magazine. http://nautil.us/blog/some-music-is-inherently-badbut-people-can-be-convinced-otherwise... More

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Tom 8: A Complete Success !!

On Saturday April 11, Carleton hosted the 8th annual Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal (TOM) workshop on formal semantics. The conference was a great success: It was well attended, and the presentations were all excellent and led to lively discussion. ICS was well represented. Can Mekik and Roxana Barbu presented their research as talks, and Olivia... More

Monday, April 13, 2015

Adam Stone successfully defended his Master’s Thesis

Congratulations to Mr. Stone who's thesis title was "The production and perception of vowel height and duration". Cognitive Science Faculty member Dr. Ida Toivonen is thrilled about this and was quoted as saying "He did really well" The Institute of Cognitive Science as a whole also sends out their... More

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