{"id":9037,"date":"2017-09-25T09:44:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=9037"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:01:34","slug":"extraterrestrials-meet-cognitive-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2017\/extraterrestrials-meet-cognitive-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Extraterrestrials meet Cognitive Science"},"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                        Extraterrestrials meet Cognitive Science\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Jim Davies of the Institute of Cognitive Science was featured in the Ottawa Citizen this past Saturday, 23rd September, in an article entitled &#8220;Why the Aliens Kind of Look Like Us.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her article, author Megan Gillis discusses Davies&#8217; insightful theories concerning human perception of aliens in science fiction. Check it out online for an interesting read!:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/why-the-aliens-kind-of-look-like-us-ottawa-professor-explains-psychology-of-star-trek\">http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/why-the-aliens-kind-of-look-like-us-ottawa-professor-explains-psychology-of-star-trek<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"184\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-Davies-1-240x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-Davies-1-240x184.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-Davies-1-160x123.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-Davies-1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jim Davies of the Institute of Cognitive Science was featured in the Ottawa Citizen this past Saturday, 23rd September, in an article entitled &#8220;Why the Aliens Kind of Look Like Us.&#8221; In her article, author Megan Gillis discusses Davies&#8217; insightful theories concerning human perception of aliens in science fiction. 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