Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Challenging the Declines Associated with Aging Brains with Prof. John Anderson

Carleton University cognitive science researcher and Canada Research Chair John Anderson, director of the Cognition and Neuroscience of Aging Lab, wants to help optimize the cognitive performance of older adults. You can read more about this on an article by Dan Rubinstein found... More

Friday, March 18, 2022

John Anderson receives a Carleton Research Achievement Award

March 18, 2022 To All Members of the Carleton Community, Please join us in congratulating the recipients of the annual Achievement Awards, which are presented in recognition of the research and teaching distinction of Carleton’s academic staff. Pursuing knowledge that can change the world is central to Carleton’s core mission. Carleton... More

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Colloquium: Visuospatial Working Memory of Humans and Chimpanzees: A possible Influence of Language on Recall

Date:  30th March 2022 - 3:00pm-4:30pm Title:  Visuospatial Working Memory of Humans and Chimpanzees: A possible Influence of Language on Recall Location: Join Zoom Meeting https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/92700176612 Meeting ID: Online Speaker: Nadine Charanek   Abstract:  In recent years, most researchers have been interested in unravelling the... More

Friday, March 11, 2022

Tuition should be free says Professor Raj Singh

Cognitive Science's Professor Raj Singh has an op-ed published in today's Toronto Star. In the piece, he argues for increased public investment in higher education, and in particular for free... More

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Colloquium: Novelty rejection in episodic memory

Colloquium: Novelty rejection in episodic memory - Department of Cognitive Science (carleton.ca) Date: Wednesday, 16th Mar 2022 – 3:00pm-4:30pm Title:  Novelty rejection in episodic memory Location: Online Speaker: : Dr. Adam Osth Abstract: Episodic memory theories have postulated that in recognition memory, a given probe is accepted or... More

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Colloquium: An instance model of associative inference

Date : Wednesday, March 2 2022 - 3:00pm-4:30pm Title:  An instance model of associative inference Location: Online Speaker: :  Dr. Randall K. Jamieson Abstract: People make intuitive inferences all the time. For example, after observing that people who take drugs A and B are cured of a headache, people tend to infer that both drugs are... More

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Jim Davies on how AI lags behind the Brain’s computational power

Jim Davies writes about how current AI lags far behind the brain's computational power in Nautilus Magazine. Published October 27, 2021. https://nautil.us/why-ai-lags-behind-the-human-brain-in-computational-power-13069/... More

Friday, January 28, 2022

Colloquium: Developing a cognitive approach to the study of human crowd dynamics from interdisciplinary perspectives

Date: Wednesday, February 2 2022 @3:30PM -04:30PM Title: Developing a cognitive approach to the study of human crowd dynamics from interdisciplinary perspectives Location: Online  Speaker: Tarampi, Margaret  Abstract: Most crowd-related disasters can be attributed to human behavior, or to the design of the built environment. The existing... More

Friday, January 28, 2022

Jim Davies on the science of happiness

Jim Davies appears on the CRAM podcast, talking about the science of having a happier life. (25m)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6843-Pgbnrk ... More

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Jim Davies on an AI that can make ethical judgments

Jim Davies writes in Nautilus magazine about a new AItrained to make ethical decisions.... More

Friday, January 14, 2022

Colloquium: Student Emotions in Productive Failure

Date: Wednesday, January 19 2022 @3:30PM -04:30PM Title: Student Emotions in Productive Failure Location: Online Speaker: Zach Savelson Abstract: Productive failure (PF) is a learning paradigm that reverses the standard order of instruction by asking students to solve problems prior to instruction. This paradigm has been shown to be effective for... More

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Jim Davies on TV about New Year’s Resolutions

Jim Davies appears on CTV about how to keep your new year's resolutions. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2351884    ... More

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

2022 Spring/Summer Cog Sci Contract Instructor Positions Available

Four Spring/Summer 2022 positions are available. To view the specific courses, job descriptions and application forms please click here. Note that all applications (complete with your CV) are due on January 5, 2022. Please also indicate your Citizenship on your CV. Thank you and good luck in your... More

Monday, November 29, 2021

Colloquium: Visual Perspectives in Memories for Events

Date: Wednesday 1 December 2021 – 3:00pm-4:30pm Title: Visual Perspectives in Memories for Events Location: Online Speaker: Peggy L. St. Jacques, PhD Abstract: Memories for events, including autobiographical experiences, can be retrieved from an own eyes perspective, how events are typically formed, or from an observer-like perspective in which... More

Monday, November 29, 2021

Jim Davies on why time seems to pass differently now

Jim Davies is interviewed by the CBC about why time seems to pass differently during the pandemic.... More

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Colloquium: Bey, Bay, or Bae: Cultural Considerations for Cognitive Science Research Methods

Date: Wednesday 17 Nov 2021 - 3:00pm-4:30pm Title:  Bey, Bay, or Bae: Cultural Considerations for Cognitive Science Research Methods Location: Online Speaker:  Rihana S. Mason, Ph.D. - Urban Child Study Center, Georgia State University Abstract: There is a renewed focus on ensuring that psychological research is usable and useful for all... More

Thursday, November 11, 2021

How metacognition — thinking about thinking — can improve the mental-health crisis

Cognitive Science PhD student Brendan Conway-Smith writes in "The Conversation" about how metacognition — thinking about thinking — can improve the mental-health crisis. How metacognition — thinking about thinking — can improve the mental-health crisis... More

Friday, October 29, 2021

5 ways sorting Halloween candy can help children develop mathematics skills

Dr. Heather Douglas, adjunct research professor in Cognitive Science, and her colleagues have an article in the Conversation about using Halloween candy to support children’s math learning. https://theconversation.com/5-ways-sorting-halloween-candy-can-help-children-develop-mathematics-skills-170350  ... More

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Colloquium: High-Dimensional Vector Spaces As the Architecture of Cognition

Date: Wednesday, Oct 20 2021 @03:30PM -04:30PM Location: Online Title: High-Dimensional Vector Spaces As the Architecture of Cognition Speaker: M. Alex Kelly Abstract: We demonstrate that the key components of cognitive architectures (declarative and procedural memory) and their key capabilities (learning, memory retrieval, probability... More

Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Cog.Sc. Colloquium: Learning what the world looks like from first-person video: challenges and opportunities

Date: October 13, 2021 - 3:00pm-4:30pm Title: Learning what the world looks like from first-person video: challenges and opportunities Location : Online Speaker: Michelle Greene Abstract: A central tenet of sensory neuroscience is that the visual system is honed through evolution and/or development to have exquisite sensitivity to the statistics... More

Wednesday, September 29, 2021

Should instructors release all of the lectures at the beginning of the semester?

Jim Davies finds that releasing all of your pre-recorded lectures week by week (the Disney+ model)  isn’t any better than releasing them all at once (the “Netflix” model) in this article in Academic Matters. ... More

Monday, September 27, 2021

A Passion for Perennial Learning: Cog Sci’s Dr. Andy Brook

Read how easy it was and why Dr. Andy Brook set up an award for Graduate... More

Monday, September 27, 2021

Colloquium: Cognitive Control Determines the Fate of Memory Representations

Date: Wednesday, Sep 29 2021 @03:30PM -04:30PM Title: Cognitive Control Determines the Fate of Memory Representations Location: Online Speaker: Tarek Amer Abstract: Cognitive control, or the ability to selectively focus attention on task-relevant information, while simultaneously ignoring task-irrelevant information, supports performance across... More

Thursday, September 23, 2021

New Contract Instructor position available: CGSC 3201B (Winter 2022)

The Department of Cognitive Science is looking for a Contract Instructor to teach CGSC 3201B for the Winter 2022 term. For more information please click here. Note that applications are due by Friday, October... More

Thursday, May 6, 2021

GRADflix: Your Research in 60 Seconds

Cognitive Science Graduate Student Brendan Conway-Smith participated in "GRADflix: Your Research in 60 Seconds". He prepared a video that describes his research "Modeling Metacognition" in one minute. Here is the link to video : 2021 Carleton University GRADflix submission: Brendan Conway-Smith -... More

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

Jim Davies wrote a funny dialogue on how the brain works

Jim Davies published a humorous dialogue where different parts of someone’s brain argue about how to walk a dog. In Nautilus Magazine. https://nautil.us/blog/this-is-how-your-brain-walks-the-doga-dialogue... More

Monday, April 26, 2021

6 New F/W 2021-22 Contract Instructor positions available

Cognitive Science announces that six new Contract Instructor positions are available to apply to for the 2021/22 Fall/Winter terms. Note the deadline of May 21, 2021. To see the courses and to obtain applications please click HERE.... More

Friday, April 23, 2021

CogSci student Kenda Parsons awarded NSERC Summer Internship

Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) are meant to stimulate interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering. This year’s NSERC Summer Internship was awarded to two students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. A special Congratulations to Kenda Parsons. Kenda is a student in the Department of Cognitive Science and is... More

Monday, April 12, 2021

Cog Sci student Kyle Grant wins a FASS Summer Research Intern Stipend

The FASS Undergraduate Summer Research Internship program provides senior undergraduate students with an opportunity to conduct independent research during the summer months, under the supervision of a FASS faculty member.  Each student receives a research stipend of $7500 to support their research. Cognitive Science and Psychology student Kyle... More

Monday, March 29, 2021

Cog. Sci. Colloquium: Can we improve future thinking in children with an episodic specificity induction?

Date: March 31, 2021 03:00-04:30 PM Speakers: Annick Tanguay, Olivia Gardam Title: Can we improve future thinking in children with an episodic specificity induction? Location: Online Abstract Future thinking permeates a host of activities in daily life, including foregoing an unhealthy treat, saving money, remembering to finish one’s homework,... More

Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Jim Davies on How to talk to dreamers in real time

Jim Davies writes in Nautilus about how we can communicate with dreaming people in real time.... More

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Carleton Cog Sci Graduate Conference

Carleton Cog Sci Graduate Conference Hosted online by Carleton University's Department of Cognitive Science on April 9th and 10, 2021. About this Event The central aim of our conference is to provide a venue for graduate students in all areas of cognitive science--at both the Master’s and Ph.D. level--to present and receive feedback on... More

Wednesday, March 10, 2021

Cog. Sci. Colloquium : A lasting influence of stories on spontaneous thought

Date: Mar 17, 2021 03:00pm -4:30pm Speaker: Buddhika Bellana Title: A lasting influence of stories on spontaneous thought Location: Online Abstract: Stories have an ability to transport us into alternate worlds. Whether it be in the form of a novel, a movie, or a vivid anecdote from conversation, this immersive quality is a central feature of... More

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Carleton HCI Alumna Shares her Autism Research

Jessica Rocheleau, a PhD student in Cognitive Science is focusing her research on understanding autistic people’s privacy and safety online. This research builds off of Rocheleau’s master’s thesis in Human-Computer Interaction which investigated autistic and non-autistic teenagers’ privacy attitudes and behaviours on social media, and... More

Friday, February 26, 2021

Jim Davies’s Book nominated

The latest book by Jim Davies, Being the Person Your Dog Thinks You Are, has been nominated for book of the year by the Next Big Idea Club. You can hear a few key points from the book at the recording here:... More