NIMH funded Prof. Leyla Isik’s R01 proposal on “The neural computations underlying human social interaction recognition.”
News & Announcements Archive
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.
Prof. Brenda Rapp ft. in Arts & Sciences Weekly
Learn more about Prof. Rapp’s research, approach to teaching, and hobbies from a featurette in a recent JHU Arts & Sciences e-newsletter.
The New Glushko Outstanding Undergraduate Cognitive Scientist Prize
The Glushko Outstanding Undergraduate Cognitive Scientist Prize will be awarded annually to the senior cognitive science major who has demonstrated the strongest combination of: academic excellence sustained and outstanding involvement […]
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
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 […]