Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Publication Alert: Deepthi Kamawar

Dr. Kamawar has recently published a paper titled "Thinking about Representations: The Case of Opaque Contexts" in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2011, 108, 734 - 746.  You can obtain a copy of this paper through Carleton's... More

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Publication Alert: Singh

Singh, Raj. (2011). Maximize Presupposition! and Local Contexts. Natural Language Semantics. Advance online publication. DOI: 10.1007/s11050-010-9066-2... More

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Update on applications for admission

Applications are still being accepted for both the M.Cog.Sc., program and the Ph.D. Program for the Fall 2011 start date.  Complete applications packages will be reviewed upon receipt.  For more information click on the graduate page and/ or email our graduate administrator at... More

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Research Days at the Institute of Cognitive Science

The Institute of Cognitive Science is hosting a presentation by Dr. Rebecca Saxe from M.I.T. on February 10th, 2011, 2:30 -4:00 in DT2203.  Reception to follow. Take a tour of the Language and Brain Lab. For more information see the website.  Dr. Masako Hirotani (Lab Director) is cross-appointed in Linguistics and Cognitive Science. She... More

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Graduate Student News

I am very pleased to report that two Ph.D. students, Lloyd Balbuena and Mark Tovey successfully defended their theses in recent weeks.  Congratulations to both of you and to your respective supervisors, John Logan and Chris Herdman.  Thanks to everyone on the committees for their important input and support. These defenses are the 21st... More

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Publication Alert!

Dr. Mako Hirotani has three papers in press.  View the titles and abstracts below.  For more information on her work, go to her website. Hirotani, M., Makuuchi, M., Rueschemeyer, S., & Friederici, A.D. (In Press). Who was the agent? The neural correlates of reanalysis processes during sentence comprehension. Human Brain Mapping. Abstract:... More

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Liz Christie (Ph.D. student) Featured in Research Works

Liz Christie, a 1st year Ph.D. student in the Institute of Cognitive Science, was featured in the recent issue of Research Works.  Liz is supervised by Ash Asudeh and Ida Toivonen, faculty members in the... More

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Asudeh receives Early Researcher Award

Dr. Ash Asudeh, Associate Professor in Cognitive Science and Linguistics, received an Early Researcher Award from the Government of Ontario.  The award will help Dr. Asudeh build a strong team of researchers to study syntax and semantics in language systems by providing funding for excellent graduate students.  Congratulations to Dr.... More

Monday, June 21, 2010

M.Cog.Sc. Degree Approved by OCGS

The Ontario Council of Graduate Studies granted final approval for the new Master's degree in Cognitive Science (M.Cog.Sc) on Friday.  Dr. Deepthi Kamawar, Graduate Supervisor in the Institute is very pleased that the degree has been approved: "The M.Cog.Sc. is an innovative and flexible program that will enhance the goals of the Institute. ... More

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Official Opening of Brain and Language Lab

The official opening of Carleton's new Brain and Language Lab was held yesterday.  Dr. Masako Hirotani is the Director of the lab and a faculty member in the Institute of Cognitive Science and the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.  Read the story in the Ottawa Citizen. Congratulations to Dr. Hirotani.  This facility... More

Monday, June 14, 2010

Congratulations to Fred Mailhot!

On June 9th Fred Mailhot successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Modelling the Acquisition and Evolution of Vowel Harmony." Congratulations on a job well done!  Fred's supervisors were Dr. Ash Asudeh and Dr. Lev Blumenfeld.  The external examiner was Dr. Mary Beckman from Ohio State University. Other committee members included Shane Hawkins... More

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Professor Mary E. Beckman to give next Andrew Brook Distinguished Lecture

Please join us on Wednesday June 9th at 3pm in 2017 Dunton Tower (Arts Lounge), Carleton University (reception to follow). Everyone welcome. See our Events page for more... More

Friday, April 23, 2010

Asudeh appointed to OCICS

Dr. Ash Asudeh has been appointed as a member of the Ottawa Carleton Institute for Computer Science. ... More

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Jim Davies speaks at TedXCarletonU

On March 30th, 2010, Dr. Jim Davies spoke at TedXCarletonU about his scientific research on imagination.  Read about it in the... More

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Andrew Brook to lead Canadian Psychoanalytic Society

Dr. Andrew Brook, founder and past Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science, is the new President-elect of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society.  Read the news release for more... More

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Marie-Odile Junker wins Killam Fellowship

Dr. Junker, a core faculty member in the Institute of Cognitive Science, has been awarded a prestigious Killam Fellowship to support her work on aboriginal languages.  See the news release for further... More

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

ICS Spring Conference to be held April 13th

The ICS Annual Spring Conference will be held on April 13, 2010, 11:00 am to 3:00 pm, in Room 2203 DT. The guest speaker is Dr. Chris Fennell, from the University of Ottawa. ICS Students will present their work in a poster session following the talk. • Link: Spring Conference... More

Sunday, March 28, 2010

Dr. Jim Davies to speak at TEDxCarletonU

Dr. Jim Davies, assistant professor at the Institute of Cognitive Science, has been selected as one of five speakers to represent Carleton University at TEDxCarletonU. He will be speaking about the science of imagination on March 30, 2010. Videos of the event will be available on the web. • Link:... More

Monday, March 22, 2010

Extended Deadline for interested applicants to the MCogSc:

We will be accepting application packages up until May 15, 2010.  Student who apply by this deadline will be considered for funding.  Students who are not seeking funding can apply up to August 30, 2010, however there may not be any spaces left in the program by that date. We are still waiting to... More

Monday, March 8, 2010

Asudeh wins research award

Ash Asudeh has been selected to receive a FASS research award for 2010-11. ... More

Monday, February 22, 2010

Mysteries of Language

Mako Hirotani and Ida Toivonen are enjoying huge success with their new first year course "Mysteries of Language".  Read about it in the Carleton University... More

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Publication Alert: Hirotani

Hirotani, M., Stets, M., Striano, T., & Friederici, A.D. (2009). Joint Attention HelpsbInfants Learn New Words: Event-related Potential Evidence. NeuroReport, 20, 600-605. This study investigated the role of joint attention in infants’ word learning. Infants aged 18–21 months were taught new words in two social contexts, joint attention... More

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

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

ICS 2009-2010 Colloquium series off to a good start

The Institute of Cognitive Science hosted the first of our 2009-2010 colloquiums last Thursday, with Dr Jim Davies and former ICS undergraduate student Jon Gagne arguing that their Visuo program can model visual reasoning. Please check our Events section below for information about further talks in this series, including one this week by ICS... More