Professor Mick Bonner is among the 37 early career faculty members selected to receive a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award this year. His project is entitled “Canonical representations of artificial and […]
Prof. Bonner Receives Catalyst Award
News & Announcements Archive
2023 Glushko Prize Winner Announced!
This year, we name Zihan Wang as our 2023 Glushko Outstanding Undergraduate Cognitive Scientist! Check out her talk on May 12th! Since her freshman year, Zihan Wang has conducted research continuously in an interdisciplinary Cognitive-Science–Computer-Science–Education lab, whose […]
Hannah Small Receives NSF GRF
PhD student Hannah Small has the distinct honor of being selected as a 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient. Her funded project is entitled, “Revealing the computational benefits of brain […]
Student Paper Published in JSLHR
PhD student Rennie Pasquinelli had a paper on “The Development of Left Hemisphere Lateralization for Sentence-Level Prosodic Processing” recently published in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. It has clinical implications for language development in general, but also for people with cochlear implants.
Leyla Isik Receives NIH R01 Grant
NIMH funded Prof. Leyla Isik’s R01 proposal on “The neural computations underlying human social interaction recognition.”
Student Receives Distinguished Paper Award at CoNLL
Fifth year PhD student Suhas Arehalli, received a Distinguished Paper Award for his paper at the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) 2022. The paper, Syntactic Surprisal From Neural […]
Student Receives Best Paper Award in Language Acquisition Journal
An Nguyen is first author of “The acquisition of wh-questions: Beyond structural economy and input frequency,” written with advisor Prof. Geraldine Legendre. This paper was selected by the Language Acquisition […]
New Faculty Announcement
In July 2023, Dr. Annemarie Kocab will join our department as an assistant professor. Her research seeks to understand what properties of the human mind give rise to language and how the structure of language reflects the structure of the mind. Dr. Kocab is currently recruiting graduate students, postdocs, and a lab manager to join the lab starting Summer/Fall 2023. […]
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
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.