{"id":10494,"date":"2018-07-16T15:26:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T19:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?page_id=10494"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:31:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:31:18","slug":"a-brief-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/a-brief-history\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        A Brief History\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Cognitive Science became a self-identified research programme with its own Society and Journal in the late 1970s. By the late 1980s, teaching and research programmes were becoming fairly common in the United States and England. The very well-known UCSD programme began, for example, in 1987. Interest in this interdisciplinary study of the mind and the brain was increasing dramatically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At about this time, conversations began about creating a Cognitive Science programme at Carleton. What made us a more plausible candidate to begin this work than most other universities in Canada is that we had members of faculty in each of the four departments usually considered the core of cognitive research who were interested. The four units were Psychology, the Linguistics part of SLALS, Philosophy and the Artificial Intelligence researchers in School of Computer Science. The seven initial faculty were Chris Herdman and Bill Petrusic (Psychology), Ann Laubstein and Helmut Zobl (Linguistics), Jean-Pierre Corriveau and Franz Oppacher (Computer Science), and Andrew Brook (Philosophy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2034\" height=\"8375\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/ICS-Timeline.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/ICS-Timeline.jpg 2034w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/ICS-Timeline-160x659.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/ICS-Timeline-240x988.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/ICS-Timeline-768x3162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/ICS-Timeline-400x1647.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/ICS-Timeline-360x1482.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/ICS-Timeline-200x824.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2034px) 100vw, 2034px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2017:<\/strong> Dr. Olessia Jouravlev joined the Institute. Dr. Jouravlev does work in the cognitive neuroscience of language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2018:<\/strong> The Institute was renamed the Department of Cognitive Science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2021:<\/strong> Dr. John Anderson and Dr. Mary Kelly joined the Department. Dr. Anderson does research in the area of cognitive aging. He was appointed as a Tier II CRC Chair. Dr. Kelly, a Ph.D. graduate from the program, does work on cognitive architectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognitive Science became a self-identified research programme with its own Society and Journal in the late 1970s. By the late 1980s, teaching and research programmes were becoming fairly common in the United States and England. The very well-known UCSD programme began, for example, in 1987. 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