The Cognitive Science Department provides theoretically-oriented research and training opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and post doctoral fellows. As a fully autonomous academic unit, we provide a focused environment that is wholly dedicated to the multi-disciplinary intellectual challenge of integrating contemporary approaches to the study of the mind/brain.  Find out how to apply to our Ph.D. program.

News and Announcements

• Faculty Position Available.  Applications due by January 15, 2012.  The Department of Cognitive Science and the School of Education seek a joint faculty candidate.

In the current issue (updated 8/27) of our news and announcements:

• Some more information about the department website.
• Congratulations to Colin Wilson and (alum) Lisa Davidson for their recently awarded NSF grant!
• Read about our collaborative exhibit with the Walters Art Museum, "Puzzles of the Brain: an Artist's Journey through Amnesia".
• A welcome for new department members!
• Upcoming department events, and talks by department members elsewhere.
• And more!

See more of what's been happening in the department here.  Other recent news:

• Research by Mike McCloskey and Barbara Landau covered by New York Times and the Washington Post: "A Few Strokes of the Past in an Artist Who Lost Her Memory" (NYT);  "A ‘self’ portrait of an artist with memory loss" (WP)
• Cognitive Science Doctoral Program ranked number one by the National Research Council. See The Chronicle of Higher Education for further information, and a web-based tool to examine up to 5000 university doctoral programs.
  
• Research by Jenny Culbertson featured on Good Morning America: "How Do Babies Learn to Talk" reports on research done by a Johns Hopkins doctoral student in cognitive science that sheds light on how human beings acquire grammar. Now a post doctoral fellow at the University of Rochester, Jennifer Culbertson worked with Cognitive Science faculty Géraldine Legendre and Paul Smolensky on the study.