Cognitive Science | Johns Hopkins University

The Department of Cognitive Science offers an undergraduate major, a minor in linguistics, and two graduate degree programs—one leading to a PhD and one leading to a Master of Arts.

Students are provided theoretically oriented research and training opportunities as they approach the study of the mind and brain from multiple perspectives.

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All JHU Business & Instruction now Virtual Due to COVID-19

Note: To reach any department member, including staff, please use email. Consistent with expert public health guidance related to the spread of COVID-19, all JHU courses and business will be conducted remotely.

March 20, 2020

CANCELLED: Spring 2020 Colloquium Series

All Spring 2020 Cognitive Science Colloquia have been cancelled in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope that the speakers who were expected to visit will reschedule for next year. Thank you for your understanding.

February 14, 2020

Two Graduate Summer Internships

PhD students Najoung Kim and Tom McCoy have earned exciting opportunities to be be summer interns at Google and Microsoft, respectively! Read more...

January 6, 2020

Two Recent PhDs

Karen Clothier and Emory Davis finished their PhD requirements this fall! Congrats! Their degrees will be conferred in May 2020. They share in common that they were co-advised by Drs. Barbara Landau and Kyle Rawlins. Where will they go next? [Read more]

December 30, 2019

A Blog by Dr. Paul Smolensky

Check out Dr. Paul Smolensky's latest Microsoft Research Blog post entitled "Next-generation architectures bridge gap between neural and symbolic representations with neural symbols." He describes work presented at the recent Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2019 meeting.

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