News & Announcements Archive

Cognitive Science at the F23 AI-X Foundry Symposium

The symposium called on participation from community members interested in the cutting-edge applications of AI in research and knowledge creation. Cognitive Science plays an important role in AI and several of our trainees were selected to present lightning talks and research posters. Read more…

Meet Our New Graduate Students!

Meet Our New Graduate Students!

This Fall, we have 8 new graduate students. Please give them a warm welcome! New PhD cohort: Ella Buring, Ray Chen, Jorie Fleming, Ananya Passi, Alex Shilen. New MA cohort: Rosie Catron, Tailai Shen, Yingqi Rong.

JHU-Georgetown NSF BCS Collaborative Grant Awarded

JHU-Georgetown NSF BCS Collaborative Grant Awarded

NSF awarded PIs Barbara Landau (JHU) and Elissa Newport (Georgetown) a collaborative grant entitled “Collaborative Research: The developmental course of cerebral lateralization for space and language.” This project uses behavioral testing and fMRI to investigate how behavior and the pattern of brain activation for language and visual-spatial abilities changes between ages 5-11, with deep implications for childhood education.

Prof. Bonner Receives Catalyst Award

Prof. Bonner Receives Catalyst Award

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 […]

2023 Glushko Prize Winner Announced!

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

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

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

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

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

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 […]