Monday, February 24, 2025

Brendan Conway-Smith wins Contract Instructor Teaching Award

Congratulations to Brendan Conway-Smith on winning this Award recognizing his teaching excellence. "Brendan’s passion for teaching and research focuses on metacognition—how people can better understand and guide their own cognitive processes. He combines insights from cognitive science, educational psychology and artificial intelligence to... More

Thursday, January 16, 2025

The resemblance between people and their pets

"In the Disney animated film 101 Dalmatians, there’s an amusing sequence in which lookalike pairs of people and their dogs parade across the screen, the resemblances between human and canine in both shape and facial expression comically exaggerated. It’s funny because it plays off the impression many people have that pets look like the... More

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Carleton’s Early Math Assessment Tool

A Success Story in Innovation and Licensing Have you ever thought about enhancing the impact of your research through commercialization? At the Carleton University Innovation Transfer Office (CITO) within Industry and Partnership Services (IPS), we specialize in helping faculty license their innovative work to achieve this goal. A prime example is... More

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Humanizing Artificial Intelligence

Read about Mary Kelly's research focusing on Making AI More Effective and Reducing Risks by Replicating Our... More

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

John Anderson receives a Canadian Hearing Services grant!

Improving the quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing communities. With support from Canadian Hearing Services (CHS), John Anderson, Ph.D. is leading an impactful study on the link between hearing loss and cognitive reserve — the brain's ability to resist damage caused by aging and pathology. This research holds tremendous potential to... More

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

New Episode of Minding the Brain podcast now available – #80

Do Babies Understand Math? Rebecca Merkley joins Jim to discuss the math abilities of babies. How early do children begin to understand math? What kind of mistakes do children make when it comes to understanding math? Why is math education important and how soon should children start learning... More

Monday, December 2, 2024

New episode of Minding the Brain podcast now available

This month's episode has Jim Davies interviewing Kim Hellemans about the Neuroscience of Emotion. Kim and Jim discuss the neuroscience of emotion: Which regions of the brain process emotions? What is the relationship between substance withdrawal and our natural stress responses? How do hormones influence these responses? Find the answers to these... More

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Congratulations to those who Convocated on Nov 9th!

Congratulations to all those who Convocated on Saturday November 9th! We wish you all the best with your future endeavours. Dalya Al-Khaldi Sabirin Cabdirashiid Maxamed Sarah Eslamdoust Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement Abagael Harvie Alexandre Jolin Haley Kingsley Oluwafoyinsola Ogbara Matthew Racine Ronald Rupiya Nkingi Sophie... More

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

New episode of Minding the Brain has just been released!

A new episode of the Minding the Brain podcast is out. This month's episode features Jim Davies interviewing the legendary psychologist Daniel Schacter about how we should think about memory errors. How and why is memory prone to failure? Do people repress traumatic memories? Does retrieving memories alter them? Can you slow down the process... More

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

FASS Graduate Studies Fair

Are you thinking about continuing on to grad school after your degree? If so, join us for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Studies Fair on Saturday, November 2, 2024! Current graduate students and faculty members from across our diverse programs will be on hand to answer any questions you may have and to... More

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Read about Professor Raj Singh’s successful collaboration with the Ontario Centre of Innovation (OCI)

The OCI program supports the collaboration between Academia and Industry to solve industry-based problems and drive the commercialization of Intellectual Property [IP]. The institution will leverage the unique skills and specialized infrastructure that is instrumental to streamline internal innovations and commercialization needs. Resulting in... More

Thursday, September 19, 2024

Volume 1 of the Cognitive Science Undergraduate Journal now published!

4th year undergraduate student Taran Allan-McKay began working on this Journal over the past year and it's now published! "I came up with the idea for the Carleton Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science (CUJCS) after learning about the amount of work undergraduate CogSci students produce that doesn't have a home. Undergrad student research is... More

Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Cognitive Science Chair Jo-Anne LeFevre elected to the Royal Society of Canada!

Three remarkable Carleton University researchers have been elected to The Royal Society of Canada | La Société royale du Canada! Both Chancellor's Professor Jo-Anne LeFevre and Sarah Phillips Casteel will be inducted into the Class of 2024 Fellows. Canada Research Chair Maria Rogers is being welcomed as a College Member. Congratulations... More

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Research Showcase — September 2024 – – Akshaaya Kirithy Baskar

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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Congratulations to Masters Cognitive Science student Işıl Sanusoğlu on her successful Thesis Defense!

Congrats Işıl Sanusoğlu on your successful Master of Cognitive Science Thesis Defense! We wish you the best as you pursue your PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Queen's... More

Monday, August 19, 2024

Congratulations to PhD candidate Josh Goheen on his successful PhD Prospectus Defense

Josh is a Ph.D. student in Cognitive Science under the supervision of Dr. John Anderson, Ph.D. and Dr. Georg Northoff (The Royal Mental Health Centre). Josh is a member of the Cognition and Neuroscience of Aging Lab (CANAL) (https://www.canallab.ca/) and Mind, Brain Imaging, and Neuroethics (MBIAN) lab. Josh has an M. Sc. in the... More

Friday, August 9, 2024

2024-2025 Awards Competition Deadlines

2024-2025-Award-Competition-Deadlines.pdf... More

Friday, July 26, 2024

PhD Candidate Imola Macphee’s Prospectus has been accepted!

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Wednesday, July 24, 2024

New Winter term course – CGSC 4900/5005 – Cognition and Neuroscience

Looking for an interesting Winter term course? CGSC 4900/5005 has just been posted. Most cognitive scientists would agree that to understand how the human mind works, we need to understand how the human brain allows for cognitive functions. The objective of this course is to introduce students to the topics of cognitive neuroscience and... More

Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Congratulations to our 2024 Undergraduate Scholarship Award Winners

This Scholarship is awarded annually to outstanding undergraduate students who are proceeding from one year to the next in a degree program within the Department of Cognitive Science at CU.                   Our three winners for 2024 are: Amanda Schmidt Zoe Roy-Stang Faisal LeJeune... More

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Odin Ramsey Fisher-Skau awarded Chancellor’s Medal for 2024

The Department of Cognitive Science is pleased to announce that Odin Ramsey Fisher-Skau has been awarded the Chancellor’s Medal at the 2024 Spring Convocation. He graduated with a Bachelor of Cognitive Science with a Concentration in Cognition and Psychology achieving a perfect CGPA of 12.0 The Chancellor’s Medal(s) are awarded to the... More

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Audibility and Aging Brains: How Hearing Loss Increases Risk of Dementia

Audibility and Aging Brains: How Hearing Loss Increases Risk of Dementia | Carleton... More

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Carleton’s FIVE University Medal Winners in Cognitive Science

The entire Department of Cognitive Science wishes to Congratulate a record FIVE Undergraduate students being awarded each a University Medal in Cognitive Science in this Spring’s 2024 Convocation. The five award winners include: Meagan Choo-Kang In her words: I did not originally intend to go into cognitive science. I discovered this program by... More

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Cog Sci Departmental Admin John Tracey is Retiring

Friday, June 28th will be John Tracey's last day of work as the Departmental Administrator with the Department of Cognitive Science. He has been the Department's Administrator for 10 of his 40 years of full time employment at Carleton University.... More

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Jim Davies interviewed about the future effects of deepfake technology on media trust and journalism

Jim Davies is interviewed by Grace Oborne on Midweek, from the Carleton University School of Journalism about the future impact of deepfake technology on journalism. Listen at time 44:40 to 47:40.... More

Monday, April 15, 2024

Minding the Brain on Fake News

A new episode of the Minding the Brain podcast is out. In this month's episode Jim Davies interviews Dr. Gordon Pennycook on the psychology of fake news. Are people actually being irrational when they believe it? This episode has both audio and video versions!... More

Thursday, April 11, 2024

Kathryn Jajo-Yacoub Wins 2024 Provost Scholar Award

Funded by the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and administered by Teaching and Learning Services, the Provost Scholar Award is valued at $1,000 and is given to undergraduate students who have demonstrated outstanding achievements in research, community engagement, immersive learning and/or international activities. Kathryn... More

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards 2023 Recipients

About the Award The Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) are meant to stimulate a student's interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering. Students work closely together with eligible FASS faculty that can supervise their research. The awards are also meant to encourage students to undertake graduate studies and pursue a... More

Monday, April 1, 2024

Brendan Conway-Smith speaks at Stanford University

Brendan Conway-Smith speaks at Stanford University, at the AAAI 2024 Spring Symposium. Brendan presents his paper 'Toward Autonomy: Metacognitive Learning for Enhanced AI Performance,' co-authored with Robert L. West. The paper proposes adding meta-learning into AI systems, to achieve more autonomous learning and problem-solving... More

Monday, March 25, 2024

2024 Carleton Cognitive Science Graduate Conference

2024 Carleton Cognitive Science Graduate Conference - Department of Cognitive... More

Thursday, March 21, 2024

AI for Small Businesses: Prof. Raj Singh’s contribution

Cognitive Science's professor Raj Singh has been working as a partner with a fintech company, PaymentEvolution, based out of Toronto. Importantly, they also highlight the contributions of one of our grad students, Katie Van Luven, who has done outstanding work on the project. For detailed information please see here.      ... More

Thursday, March 21, 2024

FASS Faculty Members Receive SSHRC Grants (Including Dr. Jo-Anne LeFevre)

FASS Faculty Members Receive SSHRC Connection Grants Congratulations to the following FASS faculty members who were awarded Connection Grants in the November 2023 competition: Barbara Leckie (English Language and Literature), along with a co-applicant at the University of Ottawa, received funding for their project titled “Common Sense:... More

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Cognitive Science’s New(ish) Floor Signage

The Department of Cognitive Science is pleased to show off it's newish floor sign located on the 22nd floor of Dunton Tower. The Logo was designed by one of our Graduate Students: Brendan Conway Smith. Faculty members included: Back row (left to right): John Anderson, Raj Singh, Jim Davies, Jo-Anne LeFevre (Chair), Mark MacLeod,... More

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Jim Davies (cognitive science, computer science) radio interview

Jim Davies appears on CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa, talking about the impact artificial intelligence on society, and whether AIs could ever be conscious, in an interview with Bev Forcier. Aired May, 2023. 10 minutes.... More

Friday, February 23, 2024

Jo-Anne LeFevre: Publish or Perish: The What, Why, How, Where, and When of Publishing in Academia

Date: Wednesday, 28-Feb-2024 Time: 03:00PM-O4:00PM Location: DT 2023 & Online Title: Publish or Perish: The What, Why, How, Where, and When of Publishing in Academia Speaker: Jo-Anne LeFevre Abstract: I will cover a range of issues about academic publication, including what it is, why it is necessary, how you get started, where you should... More