{"id":53,"date":"2009-08-28T10:22:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T14:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T14:49:20","slug":"davies-jim","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/people\/davies-jim\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Davies is a full professor in the Department of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. Director of the Science of Imagination Laboratory, he explores computational modeling and artificial intelligence applied to human visual imagination. His work has shown how people use visual thinking to solve problems, and how they visualize imagined situations and worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a frequent contributor to Nautilus magazine and is author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimdavies.org\/riveted\/\">Riveted: The Science of How Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimdavies.org\/imagination\/\">Imagination: The Science of Your Mind&#8217;s Greatest Power<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimdavies.org\/science-of-better\/\">Being the Person Your Your Dog Thinks You Are: The Science of a Better You.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He is also a co-host of the podcast Minding the Brain <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindingthebrainpodcast.com\/\">http:\/\/www.mindingthebrainpodcast.com\/<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4930,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jim","cu_people_last_name":"Davies","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[116,45,119,120],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-53","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-acr","cu_people_type-faculty","cu_people_type-mental-rep","cu_people_type-modelling"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"PhD (Georgia Tech)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"jim.davies@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"1109","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"http:\/\/www.jimdavies.org","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17378,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/53\/revisions\/17378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}