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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

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Jim Davies interviewed by the Washington Independent Review of Books

Carleton Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies was recently interviewed about his book "Riveted" by Dorothy Reno with the Washington Independent Review of Books. For the complete interview see here.... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Jim Davies interviewed by the Washington Independent Review of Books

Carleton Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies was recently interviewed about his book "Riveted" by Dorothy Reno with the Washington Independent Review of Books. For the complete interview see here.... More

Monday, March 9, 2015

Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies appears on the Gluck Radio podcast

You ever wonder why you like food that's bad for you? Or why we love gossip? Or what we find beautiful (it ain't just symmetry)? There's a science to what it is we're fascinated by, and cognitive scientist Jim Davies joins GluckRadio.com to tell us exactly what it is. What makes a story, a... More

Thursday, March 5, 2015

The Death of Hundreds Is Just a Statistic—But It Doesn’t Have to Be

Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies of Carleton University published a blog entry for the online magazine Nautilus about how our moral judgments tend to be insensitive to numbers--and how we might overcome that. ... More

Monday, February 2, 2015

Why Are You So Smart? Thank Your Mom & Your Difficult Birth

Carleton professor Jim Davies published a blog entry for the popular science magazine Nautilus on the relationship between the evolution of human intelligence and the fact that women need to be able to run.... More

Monday, January 26, 2015

New Year’s Resolutions and the Science of Willpower

Jim Davies of Carleton University has published an essay on the blog of Nautilus magazine on how the relationship between New Year's resolutions and willpower.  http://nautil.us/blog/new-years-resolutions-and-the-science-of-willpower... More

Monday, January 26, 2015

Carleton Cog Sci Students present paper to the CUNY Phonology Forum

Marilou Guillemette, a Master's student in ICS, and Leah Hoiting, an ICS undergraduate student, presented a paper in New York City earlier this month. The paper was presented to the CUNY Phonology Forum and the title of the paper was "Language mixing and the phonetics of vowels". The paper was very well received and... More

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Is Santa Claus a God?

Dr. Jim Davies, associate professor at Carleton's Institute of Cognitive Science, discusses how the idea of Santa Claus fits (and doesn't fit) with what anthropologists consider gods in religion in this blog entry in Nautilus Magazine. Santa Claus occupies a strange place in Christian belief. On the one hand, only children seem to really... More

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