News & Announcements Archive


Kyle Rawlins & Team Receive Discovery Award

Kyle Rawlins & Team Receive Discovery Award
Congratulations to Kyle Rawlins for receiving a Discovery Award for a project in collaboration with Justin Bledin (Philosophy), Ying Chen (Economics), Chen Cheng (Carey School of Business), and Ali Khan (Economics) on "Deception and Bad-faith Communication."


Studying Brain Response to Social Interaction

Studying Brain Response to Social Interaction
Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor Leyla Isik’s social vision research focuses on understanding how humans distill social information about others from what we see. “It’s just a ubiquitous thing that we’re always doing… You can’t stop looking at people and thinking about them,” Isik says. “Large portions of your brain are dedicated to recognizing these abilities, but we still don’t really understand how you do this.”  Read more about her research in the Spring 2022 issue of Arts & Sciences Magazine.


Prof. Rapp Elected to Society of Experimental Psychologists

Prof. Rapp Elected to Society of Experimental Psychologists
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 […]


Student Receives APA Dissertation Award

Student Receives APA Dissertation Award
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 […]


Announcing Inaugural Vivien Thomas Scholars Application Cycle

Announcing Inaugural Vivien Thomas Scholars Application Cycle
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. [...]


A Round of Applause for Recent PhD Completers

Lets take a moment to acknowledge the accomplishments of several of our PhD graduates who finished this year: Celia Litovsky, Jane Lutken, Donald Li, and Najoung Kim. Click to read more about their first positions. [...]