Follow this link for a complete listing of our Colloquia for Winter 2026.
You can join on campus (DT 2203) or Zoom (https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/96979364539)
Join us on March 25th from 15:00 – 16:00 for a Lab Showcase featuring The Children’s Representational Development Lab 
The Children’s Representational Development Lab investigates multiple areas of children’s development, including saving ability, knowledge acquisition, and moral cognition.
Deepthi Kamawar
Deepthi is the Director of the Children’s Representational Development Lab. She is a full professor in the Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology. She received her B.Sc. in Cognitive Science and her PhD in Psychology (at the Centre for applied Cognitive Science) at the University of Toronto. She is currently the PI for an NSERC Discovery Grant investigating young children’s Future-Oriented Cognition, with a focus on Saving. Her other research interests include the development of Executive Function and Moral Cognition.
Ellen Doucet
Ellen is a fourth-year PhD student in Psychology and research assistant in the Children’s Representational Development Lab. Ellen completed her Bachelor of Science degree at Mount Allision University and holds a Master of Arts degree from Carleton University. Ellen’s research focuses on children’s ability to consider their future selves. More specifically, she is interested in the development of saving and factors that can improve four- to six-year-old children’s saving performance.
Teju Oladipo
Teju Oladipo is a first-year MA psychology student and research assistant in the Children’s Representational Development Lab. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Cognitive Science from Carleton University and completed her Honours Thesis in the lab, examining whether motivational factors affect young children’s saving performance. Her current research interests focus on whether children’s feelings about saving and its importance influence how children save.
Teleah Petter
Teleah is a Post-Baccalaureate student in Cognitive Science interested in children’s saving capabilities over a set duration of time, and whether being reminded to save improves performance.
Khaled Al Mohammad
Khaled is a fourth year Undergraduate Honours student majoring in Cognitive Science, and working on his thesis in Dr. Kamawar’s Lab. He is interested in young children’s saving performance and temporal cognition.
Insta: @khaledalmmm
Edina Torlaković
Edina is a doctoral researcher in Cognitive Science at Carleton University and Director of Cognitive Research and Learning at Compusult Limited. Her work lies at the intersection of cognitive science, educational psychology, and learning technologies, with a focus on how cognitive processes support skill acquisition and learning in complex environments. Her doctoral research examines the role of executive functions—particularly working memory, inhibition, and cognitive control—in early reading development and learning outcomes. Through her research, she aims to better understand how cognitive mechanisms influence reading acquisition and how this knowledge can inform evidence-based educational interventions and learning system design.
