News & Announcements Archive

Postdoc Receives NSF Award

Postdoc Receives NSF Award

Alon Hafri was awarded an NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work with Drs. Mick Bonner, Barbara Landau, and Chaz Firestone on a project entitled “Neural […]

PhD Student Receives Science of Learning Fellowship

PhD Student Receives Science of Learning Fellowship

Rennie Pasquinelli, a rising fourth year graduate student, was named the recipient of a Science of Learning Fellowship for 2021-22! The fellowship is funded by the Science of Learning Institute […]

Prof. Michael McCloskey featured in Arts & Sciences Weekly

Prof. Michael McCloskey featured in Arts & Sciences Weekly

Did you catch the feature on Prof. Michael McCloskey in this week’s Arts & Sciences Weekly e-newsletter? Read up on it here…

Now Available – Fall 2021 Cognitive Science Focal Area Course List

This list of focal area courses is designed to assist Cognitive Science majors and Linguistics minors make Fall 2021 course selections. Registration opens April 19th starting with rising seniors. Visit this page to access the PDF.

Johns Hopkins details plans for expanded fall return to campus

University leaders expect broad resumption of in-person activities for staff and students beginning in August. […]

Meet our new PhD student

Meet our new PhD student

Manasi Malik begins the PhD program in cognitive science this spring. Lets give her a warm welcome to JHU! Manasi holds a BTech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the […]

Music on the Mind

Music on the Mind

In her Music Cognition course, Hopkins alum and senior lecturer Monica Lopez-Gonzalez examines music through a highly interdisciplinary lens in order to answer complex questions of human brain function and development.

Najoung Kim Receives NSF Grant

Najoung Kim Receives NSF Grant

Join us in congratulating fifth-year PhD student Najoung Kim for receiving an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in Linguistics! Najoung’s dissertation, entitled “Compositional Linguistic Generalization in Human and Machine Learning,” will investigate generalization […]

Two Cognitive Science Majors Receive PURAs

Carol Lu and Shreya Wadhwa are among the selected undergraduates to receive Provost’s Undergraduate Research Awards to support their independent research in the coming year! Carol will be mentored by Dr. Marina Bedny […]

Best Student Paper Award

Best Student Paper Award

Kyriaki Neophytou received the Best Student Paper Award for “A tool for automatic scoring of spelling” at the Academy of Aphasia conference. Congrats, Kyriaki!