Please join us in congratulating Brenda Rapp, who has just been elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists.  Membership is a great honor as it recognizes significant accomplishments in experimental […]

Congratulations to Grusha Prasad for receiving an American Psychological Association (APA) Dissertation Research Award! The title of the dissertation is “Using priming in humans and neural networks to evaluate predictions […]

Another great feature on one of our faculty appeared in the in the Arts & Sciences Weekly e-newsletter. Read up on it here...

Did you catch the feature on Prof. Colin Wilson in this week's Arts & Sciences Weekly e-newsletter? Read up on it here...

The Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative is a new endowed fellowship program dedicated to nurturing diverse STEM talent that exists at HBCUs and MSIs. The Department of Cognitive Science is thrilled to have its PhD program participating in this initiative! Scholarship applications are due Dec. 1. [...]

Rennie Pasquinelli received this year’s Jean Berko-Gleason Award for her paper on “Tense acquisition in Williams syndrome: The interaction of rules with long-term memory impairment”. The award is given annually at […]

Jiayu Shao, '21 graduated with a major in neuroscience. He spent a significant amount of time as an RA in our Bonner Lab as a student. The experience he gained launched him into a two-year postbaccalaureate position at the National Institute of Mental Health conducting research on scene and abstract concept representation. [...]

Hand-writing letters more effectively teaches reading skills compared to typing and watching videos, study finds.