{"id":1577,"date":"2016-08-22T11:45:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=1577"},"modified":"2026-06-02T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:59:56","slug":"jim-davies","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/people\/jim-davies\/","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<h3 id=\"research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Artificial intelligence; cognitive modeling; imagination; creativity; aesthetics; mental imagery; brain modeling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"detailed-research-interests\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Detailed Research Interests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Davies runs the Science of Imagination Laboratory, which focuses on making computer models of human imagination&#8211;creating visual scenes that are novel but realistic. This involves psychologically-informed artificial intelligence, as well as spiking neural-network modeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"research-group\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Group<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceofimagination.pbworks.com\/w\/page\/15236327\/FrontPage\">Science of Imagination Laboratory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080,"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":[45],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-1577","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-cross-appointment"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Associate Professor","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"jim@jimdavies.org","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\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15268,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/1577\/revisions\/15268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}