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

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Colloquium – October 1st, 2015 with Ehsan Amjadian

This week’s colloquium talk will be given by Mr. Ehsan Amjadian. Mr. Amjadian is a 4th year doctoral student in the Institute of Cognitive Science The colloquium will be this Thursday October 1, from noon to 1 p.m. in Dunton 2203. You can find more information about this colloquium including the abstract at... More

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

University of Ottawa – Colloquium – Dr. Richard Shiffrin

Colloquium at University of Ottawa - Today at 2:30 p.m. Details Below   To all researchers and academia, On behalf of the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, I would like to invite you to attend our next colloquium to be held on Tuesday, September 29th, 2015, at 2:30pm in room FSS-4004.... More

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Jim Davies on Innovation Hub

Carleton's Jim Davies appeared on National Public Radio's Innovation Hub for an interview about how to not waste student work.... More

Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Dr. Ida Toivonen & Dr. Ash Asudeh co-author a textbook

The Institute of Cognitive Science's (ICS) Ida Toivonen and Ash Asudeh (together with Joan Bresnan and Stephen Wechsler) have written a textbook entitled "Lexical Functional Syntax, 2nd edition" which is just being released. This second edition is substantively different from the first edition. The endorsement on the back cover by Mary Dalrymple... More

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Cognitive Scientist Jim Davies talks about the psychology of color in Nautilus Magazine

"Why the dark side of the force had to be dark."... More

Thursday, July 2, 2015

High-flying Grad Student Research Gives a Lift to the Aerospace Industry

Kathy Van Benthem (recent Ph.D. graduate in Cognitive Science) is one of the students profiled in an article on High-Flying Graduate Student Research.  Click here to see the article.... More

Monday, June 15, 2015

Liz Christie successfully defended her PhD thesis on June 10th

Liz's thesis is very substantive and it draws upon linguistic theory, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics. Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen co-supervised her thesis entitled "The English resultative". Other committee members were John Logan and Kumiko Murasugi. Liz did a very good job in her defence. Congratulations,... More

Monday, June 15, 2015

Why do we swipe right on Tinder for interest, and not left? And what does that have to do with the movie “The Matrix?”

Jim Davies explores this topic in a new blog entry on Nautilus.... More

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The strange disgust reaction many people have to the word “moist.”

Cognitive Science professor Jim Davies writes on the Nautilus Magazine blog about the strange disgust reaction many people have to the word "moist."... More

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Why Facebook is the Junk Food of Socializing

Cognitive science professor Jim Davies writes in Nautilus Magazine about how we mistake inanimate things for people.  http://nautil.us/blog/why-facebook-is-the-junk-food-of-socializing... More

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Six New Contract Instructor Positions available for Fall/Winter 2015-16

Deadline for applications is June 23rd, 2015. Please see here for Positions and application... More

Monday, June 1, 2015

Application: ICS to sponsor an individual for a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.

The Institute of Cognitive Science at Carleton University is interested in sponsoring an individual for a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship.  The general requirements for the competition are at: https://carleton.ca/curo/2015/funding-opp-banting-postdoctoral-fellowships-program/ We are most interested in candidates who have expertise in empirical... More

Friday, May 22, 2015

Kathleen Van Benthem has successfully defended her Ph.D. Thesis in Cognitive Science

We are pleased to announce that Kathleen Van Benthem has successfully defended and filed her thesis for the Ph.D. in Cognitive Science! Her thesis entitled “Identifying Latent Cognitive Constructs in a Comprehensive Model of Aviation Outcomes; The Role of Dynamic Mental Model for Pilots” was successfully defended on April 23, 2015. The... More

Friday, May 22, 2015

Olivia Podlesny has successfully defended her MCogSc Thesis

We are pleased to announce that Olivia Podlesny has successfully defended and filed her MCogSc! Her thesis, Investigating disjunction in American Sign Language: The importance of non-manual signals and the influence of English, is a valuable addition to the literature. It provides new experimental data, as well as historical and formal analyses,... More

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

TEDxCarletonU talk on imagining the future by Jim Davies

The Institute of Cognitive Science's Dr. Jim Davies spoke recently at TEDxCarletonU about the mistakes we make when we imagine the future and what steps we can take to overcome them. The 14 minute video is now available at:... More

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

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Nalini Ramlakhan, a PhD student in Cognitive Science receives $105,000 for research on emotions and morality

Late last fall, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) announced their graduate student award winners. Nalini Ramlakhan, a PhD student in Cognitive Science at Carleton received $105,000 for her research on emotions and morality. “I am interested in the way in which we use our emotions and the way emotions guide our... More

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Robert Fulford: Cognitive scientist Jim Davies dissects why movies move us (and the Star Wars prequels didn’t)

The National Post's Robert Fulford's Dec. 3, 2014 article on Carleton's Professor Jim Davies (Institute of Cognitive Science) and his book: Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe (Palgrave Macmillan).... More

Monday, December 1, 2014

Instructor I, Term Position Available: Applications close: February 1, 2015

Institute of Cognitive Science – Instructor I, Term Position (Applications Closing Date: February 1, 2015) The Institute of Cognitive Science invites applications from qualified candidates for a one-year term appointment in Cognitive Science at the rank of Instructor beginning July 1, 2015 and ending June 30, 2016. The candidate will be expected... More

Friday, November 28, 2014

Dr. Myrto Mylopoulos Talk: “Is there Phenomenology of Agency: Tues, Dec. 9/14. NOTE Room Chg: DT 2203

Dr. Myrto Mylopoulos (Philosophy & Cognitive Science, Carleton, and Institut Jean Nicod, Paris) will deliver a talk titled "Is there Phenomenology of Agency?" The talk takes place on Tuesday December 9. 3:00pm, NOTE ROOM CHANGE:  DT 2203 It is often held that, just as there is something it is like to smell a rose,... More

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Undergraduate Student Research Award: Apply by Dec. 1, 2014

The ICS-USRA provides funding for an undergraduate student who is majoring in Cognitive Science to work as a research assistant on a project supervised by a faculty member in Cognitive Science. For more information and an application form follow this link. Note the Deadline of Dec. 1,... More

Friday, November 14, 2014

Book Launch for Dr. Jim Davies’ Riveted The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe (Thursday, November 20)

Thursday, November 20, 2014, 6:30pm Room 270, Residence Commons Carleton University This is the official book launch of the popular science book Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe by Jim Davies, associate professor at Carleton’s Institute of Cognitive... More