Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Nautilus article: Using your Imagination to get better at sports

Olympics and sports fans might be interested in this new article by Jim Davies, of Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science, about how you can get better at sports--and even build muscle strength, simply by using your imagination.... More

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Distinct Stages of Thinking Revealed by Brain Activity Patterns co-authored by Dr. Aryn Pyke

Dr. Aryn Pyke (Pike), a graduate of Cognitive Science (Ph.D. 2009) recently published an interesting paper with co-authors John Anderson and Jon Fincham in which they used a unique combination of brain scanning and modelling to show the stages of mental processing for math problems.... More

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

What Dreams Are For by Dr. Jim Davies

Jim Davies, of Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science, has published a blog entry for the science magazine Nautilus about what dreams are for.... More

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Dr. Jim Davies discusses the power of imagination

Dr. Jim Davies, of Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science, appears on the Youniversity podcast, talking about the power of imagination.... More

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Master’s Cognitive Science student Luke Kersten wins Senate Medal

At the June 2016 Convocation Luke Kersten won a Senate Medal for his Master's in Cognitive Science. In his own words: "The Cognitive Science program has been a fantastic place to work and study over the past two years. I have been fortunate enough to meet and engage with a number of excellent students... More

Monday, June 20, 2016

Marly Mageau – Can You Tell Where Singers are From Based on Their Songs?

Marly Mageau, a recent graduate of the M.Cog.Sc. Program, has explored why several of her favourite musical artists sounded completely different in their songs compared to their interviews. This is the story on her... More

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Dr. Jim Davies appears on the podcast “Spark My Muse”

Jim Davies, of Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science, appears on the podcast "Spark My Muse," talking about imagination.  ... More

Thursday, June 9, 2016

“How we make mistakes when predicting our own futures” by Dr. Jim Davies

Jim Davies, of Carleton University's cognitive science department, has published a blog entry for the science magazine Nautilus about how we make mistakes when predicting our own futures.  ... More

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Cake or ice cream? Researchers dish on why kids often choose ‘both’

This morning, the Institute of Cognitive Science's  Dr. Raj Singh was interviewed by CBC Ottawa Morning's Robyn Bresnahan as a result of a study that he and Dr. Deepthi Kamawar are co- authors in.  To view the written article click here.    The co-authored study is also being published in Natural Language Semantics, an international... More

Tuesday, May 24, 2016

“Why children confuse simple words Study”

Two Professors from the Institute of Cognitive Science, Dr. Deepthi Kamawar and Dr. Raj Singh in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have completed a study involving children between 3 - 6 years of age. Why children confuse simple words Study: Kids have “and/or” problem despite sophisticated... More

Thursday, May 19, 2016

Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies appeared on the podcast “The Reality Check”

Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies appeared on the podcast "The Reality Check" to talk about the psychology of the droids of Star Wars.... More

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Mr. Daniel DiGiovanni successfully defends his Master Thesis

Daniel Di Giovanni successfully defended his Master’s thesis on April 27.  The title of the thesis is “Neural and predictive effects of verb argument structure”. The Chair for the Defense was John Logan and the examiner was Dr. Beth MacLeod, and the committee consisted of Dr. Georg Northoff, Dr. Ida Toivonen and Dr. Dan Siddiqi.... More

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

New blog entry on the Psychology Today website by Carleton Cognitive Science’s Jim Davies.

If the history of life on Earth were a pool, how much water would represent your life? https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-imagination/201605/if-history-were-pool-how-much-water-would-your-life-be.  ... More

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Ms. Deidre Kelly successfully defends her Ph.D. Dissertation

On April 29th Ms. Deidre Kelly successfully defended her Ph.D. Dissertation titled "A Dual-Process Account of Moral Judgment: What Psychopaths Can Teach Us About Morality".  The Chair was Dr. Jason Etele, and the External Examiner was Dr. Verena Gottschling and the Internal Examiner was Dr. Ivan Zinger.  The Committee consisted Dr. Andrew... More

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Ms. Marly Mageau successfully defends her Master Thesis

On April 25th, Marly successfully defended her Master’s thesis titled “Foreign accents in song and speech”.  The Chair was Dr. John Logan, and the Internal Examiner was Dr. Anna Hoefnagels, and the Committee consisted of Dr. Ida Toivonen, Dr. Lev Blumenfeld and Dr. Beth MacLeod. In her thesis, Marly showed that it is more... More

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Mr. Luke Kersten successfully defends MasterThesis

Mr. Luke Kersten successfully defended his Master's Thesis titled "Leveling the Field: Talking Levels in Cognitive Science".  The committee consisted of  the following:   Chair, Dr. Kasia Muldner; Co-Supervisors, Dr. Andrew Brook and Dr. Robert West; Committee Member, Dr. Vincent Bergeron, and the Internal Examiner, Dr. Craig Leth-Steensen.... More

Friday, April 29, 2016

5 New F/W Contract Instructor Positions Available

The Institute of Cognitive Science has made available five new 2016/17 Fall/Winter Contract Instructor positions. The deadline to apply with the appropriate application and documentation is May 20th, 2016. Please find detailed information with each of the job descriptions... More

Thursday, April 21, 2016

New article by ICS’s Raj Singh

The current volume of the journal Cognitive Science has an article by ICS's Raj Singh, co-authored with Evelina Fedorenko, Kyle Mahowald, and Edward Gibson, all from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. The article is titled "Accommodating presuppositions is inappropriate in implausible contexts", and can be found... More

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Cognitive Science professor Ida Toivonen featured on The LINGUIST list blog

Check out who is the first featured linguist for this year's Linguist List fund drive!  http://blog.linguistlist.org/uncategorized/featured-linguist-ida-toivonen/... More

Monday, March 7, 2016

Dr. Diana Inkpen’s new project monitors social media for signs of mental illness

A team of researchers led by Diana Inkpen will explore the use of social media data to help detect and monitor individuals potentially at risk of mental health issues. The project has received a three-year grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Diana Inkpen is a Professor of Computer... More

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Jim Davies, Author of Riveted, appears on the BBC, talking about imagination

Carleton cognitive scientist Jim Davies was interviewed by the BBC about his research on imagination.... More

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Jim Davies publishes about Star Wars Droids

Carleton Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies published a blog entry in Nautilus about the psychology of the Star Wars droids.... More

Friday, February 5, 2016

Jim Davies appears on “Ontario Today” to talk about why people read newspaper horoscopes

Carleton Cognitive Science Associate Professor Jim Davies appeared on the call-in show "Ontario Today" to talk about why people still read, and sometimes believe, horoscopes that are in the newspaper. Broadcast January 29, 2016. mp3:... More

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Jim Davies – Nautilus Blog on Space and Time

Jim Davies, of Carleton University's Institute of Cognitive Science, has published a blog entry for the science magazine Nautilus about how our minds mix the concepts of space and time. http://nautil.us/blog/how-where-you-are-or-what-youre-doing-alters-your-sense-of-time... More

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Dr. Jim Davies appears on a podcast

Carleton cognitive scientist Jim Davies speaks about mutual dependence and effective altruism on the "Positivity Effect" podcast.... More

Monday, December 14, 2015

ICS Master Students Present at the Ottawa Conference for Linguistic students

Marly Mageau and Can Mekik (both ICS Master’s students) gave a talk at the Ottawa Conference for Linguistics Undergraduate and Master’s students (http://cla-acl.ca/oclum-2015/) on December 5th together with Emily Wang (a Carleton undergraduate student). The title of their talk was “Foreign accent in song and speech”. Kunio Hessel and Lisa... More

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Roberta Bondar, (Canada’s first woman astronaut), visited Carleton University on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015

Dr. Roberta Bondar visited the ACE Lab (Dr. Chris Herdman) in the VSIM Centre and talked with students in Cognitive Science and Psychology. http://newsroom.carleton.ca/2015/12/09/roberta-bondar-speaks-to-students-tours-aerospace-facilities/  ... More

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

How Black Friday Got its Name

Carleton's Jim Davies published a blog entry for the science magazine Nautilus on the psychology of the name "Black Friday." http://nautil.us/blog/how-black-friday-got-its-name... More

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

How Black Friday Got its Name

Carleton's Jim Davies published a blog entry for the science magazine Nautilus on the psychology of the name "Black Friday." http://nautil.us/blog/how-black-friday-got-its-name... More

Friday, October 23, 2015

The Number of Friends you can have at Once by Dr. Jim Davies

Carleton cognitive scientist Jim Davies has published a blog entry for Nautilus magazine about what science says about the number of friends you can have.... More

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Dr. Ida Toivonen is the co-editor of a new book!

 Dr. Ida Toivonen,  Associate Professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science, is the co-editor of a new edited volume called  "Structures in the Mind: Essays on Language, Music and Cognition  in Honor of Ray Jackendoff". Here's the web page:  https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/structures-mind Congratulations to Dr. Toivonen!  ... More

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Kam Kwok has successfully defended his thesis defence

We are pleased to announce that Kam Kwok has successfully defended his thesis for the Ph.D. in Cognitive Science! His thesis entitled “Complex Fan Analysis, the Extension of ACT-R Fan Effect Model” was successfully defended on October 9, 2015. The committee was made up of Dr. Robert West (Supervisor), Dr. Raj Singh (Committee Member),... More

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Kam Kwok has successfully defended his thesis defence

We are pleased to announce that Kam Kwok has successfully defended his thesis for the Ph.D. in Cognitive Science! His thesis entitled “Complex Fan Analysis, the Extension of ACT-R Fan Effect Model” was successfully defended on October 9, 2015. The committee was made up of Dr. Robert West (Supervisor), Dr. Raj Singh (Committee Member),... More

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Jim Davies published a book review in Skeptic

Jim Davies's review of Peter Singer's latest book was published in Skeptic magazine.  Davies, J. (2015). What good can we do? A review of The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas about Living Ethically by Peter Singer. Skeptic, 20(3), 54—55. ... More

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Dr. Jim Davies – Why we believe in internet hoaxes

​Yahoo! news interviewed ​C​arleton University cognitive scientist Jim Davies ​about why we believe in internet hoaxes. "They play on our hope and fear."... More