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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Publication Alert: Asudeh

Recent publications by Dr. Ash Asudeh: Ash Asudeh. 2009. Adjacency and locality: A constraint-based analysis of complementizer-adjacent extraction. In Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King, eds., Proceedings of the LFG09 Conference. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 106-126. Christopher Potts, Ash Asudeh, Seth Cable, Yurie Hara, Eric McCready, Luis... More

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Publication Alert: Toivonen

Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen. 2009. Lexical-Functional Grammar. In Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press.... More

Monday, February 1, 2010

Publication Alert: Brook

Dr. Andrew Brook has published a variety of papers (many of them invited) over the last year. Brook, A. ed. 2009a. The Place of Philosophy in Cognitive Science. Special theme in Topics in Cognitive Science, 1:2, 1:3, and forthcoming (Invited). Brook, A. 2009b. Pylyshyn and Cognitive Architecture. In Computation, Cognition, and Pylyshyn, Don... More

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Conference to be held at Carleton

15th International Lexical Functional Grammar Conference LFG 2010 will be held at Carleton, June 18-20, 2010. Recent previous conferences have been held at Cambridge University (2009), University of Sydney (2008), and Stanford University (2007). The local organizers are Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen. We would welcome student volunteers! For further... More

Friday, January 29, 2010

Publication Alert: Kamawar

Kamawar, D. & Olson, D. R. (2010). Children's understanding of referentially opaque contexts: The role of metarepresentational and metalinguistic knowledge. Journal of Cognition and Development, 10, 285-305. We investigated whether children's ability to deal with referentially opaque contexts could be predicted by both metarepresentational... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Special Ph.D. Studentship Available

Dr. Ash Asudeh welcomes applications from potential students interested in the Ph.D. in Cognitive Science to apply for a Special Ph.D. Studentship available starting September 2010. The successful appplicant will join  the project 'Constraint-Based Syntax and Semantics'. The project is a theoretical and computational investigation of aspects of... More

Monday, January 4, 2010

People to Watch in 2010

Read the article about Chris Herdman's research in the Ottawa Citizen -- he was selected as one of the 12 people to watch in Ottawa in... More

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Mark Tovey interviewed during Quantum2Cosmos Science Festival

ICS doctoral student Mark Tovey was interviewed by CBC Radio and TVOntario in connection with his role as an invited panellist at Quantum2Cosmos. (Panel podcast available here). Quantum2Cosmos was a 13-day Science Festival at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, featuring speakers from around the... More

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Hirotani appointed to Max Planck Institute

Dr. Masako Hirotani was recently appointed to the Max Planck Institute for a three year term. Dr. Hirotani does research on how the brain processes language. She is an assistant professor in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Carleton.  Read about this appointment in the Charlatan article.... More

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Herdman in November “Research Works”

Read about Chris Herdman's research using simulator-based training that will enhance the efficacy of search-and-rescue "spotters" -- in the latest issue of Research Works. http://researchworks.carleton.ca/2009_November/354.htm Like many other researchers in Cognitive Science, Dr. Herdman's work addresses both theoretical and applied issues. His is... More

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Convocation 2009 – Two Medals for ICS Students

At Carleton's latest convocation, a graduating student from the Institute won a Senate Medal for an Outstanding Academic Achievement and at the convocation in June, an ICS graduate won the Chancellor's Medal.  They are the latest in a growing list of outstanding graduates from the B.A. program. Senate medals are awarded to the top... More

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

eye on !nnovation

Chris Herdman, Director of VSIM, faculty member in Cognitive Science and Psychology, was an invited participant in the eye on !nnovation event organized by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.  Along with 15 other top researchers from across Canada, he spoke about the research going on at VSIM to the media and to members of... More

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