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Friday, June 13, 2014

Is It Possible to Feel Sympathy For Many People at Once?

People seem to be just as moved to compassion by a tragedy affecting 15 as 500 people. Can we overcome our insensitivity to numbers using imagery and the imagination? In this Psychology Today blog entry, Carleton University associate professor Jim Davies looks at the evidence. Jim Davies: Author of Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes... More

Friday, June 6, 2014

Jim Davies has his new book reviewed

Kirkus, a book review magazine, has released a glowing review of "Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe," which comes out August 1. The author is Jim Davies, associate professor at Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science.... More

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Elizabeth Rosseau (graduate student M.Cog.Sc.) – top 10 finalist in the 2014 3MT competition

Elizabeth Rousseau is a graduate student in the Master of Cognitive Science program at Carleton. She participated in the Carleton 3MT competition in March, 2014 with her topic: The Role of Joint Attention in Second Language... More

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Dr. Chris Herdman receives an award from Trent University

Dr. Chris Herdman, Professor of Cognitive Science and Psychology at Carleton University, recently received a Distinguished Alumni Award from Trent University. The event was held on May 3, 2014 at the 9th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony in the Barbara Frum Atrium at the CBC Production Facilities in Toronto.    ... More

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Congratulations to the Spring Conference Winners

The Institute of Cognitive Science is pleased to declare another successful Annual Cognitive Science Spring Conference! Every year, graduate students present their work, demonstrating the quality and variety of research done at the Institute, and this year was no exception. Furthermore, the Institute, in collaboration with the Cognitive Science... More

Thursday, March 20, 2014

The Reality of Abstract Psychological Concepts – by Dr. Jim Davies

ICS faculty member Jim Davies writes on the reality of abstract psychological concepts in this blog posting on the Psychology Today blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-imagination/201403/are-desires-real  ... More

Monday, February 3, 2014

Jim Davies blog entry on shape-color associations: chosen as an essential read on Psychology Today

Wassily Kandinsky found that certain shapes, such as triangles and circles, were more often associated with particular colors. But the subsequent research has had trouble replicating these findings. In this Psychology Today blog entry, chosen as an "essential read," Carleton University associate professor Jim Davies describes the different... More

Friday, January 24, 2014

Jo-Anne LeFevre speaks to CBC’s Alan Neal about Math Literacy

Jo-Anne LeFevre discussed math literacy with Alan Neal on CBC’s All in Day radio program on Wednesday, January 22, 2014. You can find out more about math literacy on Jo-Anne’s website, Count Me... More

Friday, January 24, 2014

Jo-Anne LeFevre speaks to CBC’s Alan Neal about Math Literacy

Jo-Anne LeFevre discussed math literacy with Alan Neal on CBC’s All in Day radio program on Wednesday, January 22, 2014. You can find out more about math literacy on Jo-Anne’s website, Count Me... More

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Dr. Deepthi Kamawar awarded a Graduate Mentoring Award

Congratulations to Dr. Deepthi Kamawar who was awarded a Graduate Mentoring Award in the fourth year of the competition.  Previous winners from ICS included Jo-Anne LeFevre (2011) and Andy Brook (2012).   http://gradstudents.carleton.ca/faculty-and-staff/faculty-graduate-mentoring-awards/... More

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Congratulations to Michael Vertolli

Michael Vertolli, a 2nd year M.Cog.Sc. Student in the Institute of Cognitive Science, successfully held his committee meeting for his thesis on Friday October 18th.  The title of his Committee Meeting Document/Thesis  is Coherencer:  A cognitive model of visual coherence.  His supervisor is Dr. Jim Davies and his committee member is Dr. Tony... More

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Congratulations to Michael Vertolli

Michael Vertolli, a 2nd year M.Cog.Sc. Student in the Institute of Cognitive Science, successfully held his committee meeting for his thesis on Friday October 18th.  The title of his Committee Meeting Document/Thesis  is Coherencer:  A cognitive model of visual coherence.  His supervisor is Dr. Jim Davies and his committee member is Dr. Tony... More

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