Multidisciplinary Study of the Mind and Brain

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

  • Degrees Offered BA, MA, PhD
  • Major Cognitive Science
  • Minor Linguistics

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PhD Program

Training cognitive scientists who can meld disciplines into a genuinely integrated science of the mind and brain.

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Master's Program

Graduate training is highly interdisciplinary and strongly theoretically oriented.

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Undergraduate Program

Cognitive science majors study the mind and brain from multiple perspectives.

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Early Career Colloquium: Gérard Avelino

The case of Tagalog Case Abstract: In this talk, I revisit the longstanding debate on the nature of the Philippine-type morphosyntactic alignment system, often also referred to as "Austronesian voice". […]

Colloquium: Karen Emmorey

A unique neurocognitive reading profile for skilled deaf readers Abstract: Our research is uncovering a deaf-specific neurocognitive reading profile that differs from hearing individuals with equal reading ability. This work […]

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COLM Outstanding Paper Award

J. Hu and M. Frank were awarded an Outstanding Paper Award at the inaugural Conference on Language Modeling for their paper on "Auxiliary task demands mask the capabilities of smaller language models."

Launching OneNeuro: Deciphering the brain’s mysteries

OneNeuro is a new cross-disciplinary initiative at Hopkins that unifies a community of scientists across all scales of research from "molecules to mind" that includes neuroscientists, engineers, computer scientists, data scientists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, philosophers, and others.