We congratulate Tom McCoy, a first year PhD student, for receiving an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his project entitled, "Assessing the Capacity of Computational Models to Make Linguistic Generalizations." Tom will be working with Drs. Tal Linzen (JHU) and Bob Frank (Yale, previously JHU). [Click to read more]

This fun study shows how most people are essentially unaware of the more common version of the lowercase print letter "g" and explores the possible implications. The paper was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, authored by junior Kimberly Wong, alum Frempongma Wadee (A&S '17 BA), grad student Gali Elenblum and Prof. McCloskey.

Congrats, Arunima! At the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Arunima will study the development of Norwegian perception verbs in autism in an effort to determine the earliest predictor of autistic children's understanding of other's minds. 

Join Omega Psi for its annual undergraduate Cognitive Science conference on April 7th. The event will showcase undergraduate research in Cognitive Science and three keynote speakers: Dr. LaBar (Duke), Dr. Fischer-Baum (Rice), and Dr. Honey (JHU).

Alumnus Simon Fischer-Baum, PhD '07 (Rice Univ.), was chosen by the National Science Foundation for its prestigious Early CAREER Award, which recognizes early-stage scholars with high levels of promise and excellence. The funded project is entitled, "Mapping the neural locus of cognitive processes in word reading." Click the link above to read the award abstract.

On Jan. 22, faculty and students across various fields of science gathered together in Hodson Hall for the biennial Science of Learning Symposium. This past January marked the five-year anniversary for the Science of Learning Institute, which was founded in 2013. In her opening speech, Barbara Landau, director of the Science of Learning Institute and professor of cognitive science, explained what science of learning means.

Our Spring 2018 Colloquium Series will feature Brian Dillon (UMass), Gillian Gallagher (NYU), Noah Goodman (Stanford), Malissa Kibbe (Boston), Kyrana Tsapkini (JH SOM), Kenn Apel (USC). Talk titles and abstracts will be posted to our event page at least 1 week in advance of each presentation. 

Alumnae Angelica Buerkin-Pontrelli, A&S '11 BA (UPenn PhD student), Prof. Geraldine Legendre (JHU); Jennifer Culbertson, A&S '10 PhD (University of Edinburgh); and Thierry Nazzi (Université Paris Descartes) were presented with the 2017 Best Paper in Language Award at the LSA 2018 annual meeting. Congratulations!

Yuan Tao was awarded a Krieger School Science Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship to teach "Decoding the Brain: Multivariate Analysis in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience" in Fall 2018. Congratulations, Yuan. This award will provide full-time support for Yuan to teach her original course. We anticipate this course will be of great interest to Cognitive Science  and Neuroscience majors with computational interests.