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Hand-writing letters shown to be best technique for learning to read

Hand-writing letters shown to be best technique for learning to read

Hand-writing letters more effectively teaches reading skills compared to typing and watching videos, study finds.

Undergraduate Spotlight: Shreya Wadhwa

Undergraduate Spotlight: Shreya Wadhwa

“This summer, I will be working as a Google STEP (Student Training in Engineering Program) Intern on the Geo Team! Working in the [Bonner] lab has taught me a lot, and the interpersonal and technical skills that I have acquired have been an invaluable asset for my Internship!” […]

Undergraduate Spotlight: Neha Nandiwada

Undergraduate Spotlight: Neha Nandiwada

“Thanks to Prof. Bonner and Dr. Magri’s training and mentorship, I am working at Google as a STEP Intern on the hotel search team this summer. I’m excited to apply the technical and problem-solving skills I’ve learned in the Bonner Lab to my internship!”

Postdoc Receives NSF Award

Postdoc Receives NSF Award

Alon Hafri was awarded an NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to work with Drs. Mick Bonner, Barbara Landau, and Chaz Firestone on a project entitled “Neural […]

PhD Student Receives Science of Learning Fellowship

PhD Student Receives Science of Learning Fellowship

Rennie Pasquinelli, a rising fourth year graduate student, was named the recipient of a Science of Learning Fellowship for 2021-22! The fellowship is funded by the Science of Learning Institute […]

Prof. Michael McCloskey featured in Arts & Sciences Weekly

Prof. Michael McCloskey featured in Arts & Sciences Weekly

Did you catch the feature on Prof. Michael McCloskey in this week’s Arts & Sciences Weekly e-newsletter? Read up on it here…

Johns Hopkins details plans for expanded fall return to campus

University leaders expect broad resumption of in-person activities for staff and students beginning in August. […]

Meet our new PhD student

Meet our new PhD student

Manasi Malik begins the PhD program in cognitive science this spring. Lets give her a warm welcome to JHU! Manasi holds a BTech in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the […]

Music on the Mind

Music on the Mind

In her Music Cognition course, Hopkins alum and senior lecturer Monica Lopez-Gonzalez examines music through a highly interdisciplinary lens in order to answer complex questions of human brain function and development.

Najoung Kim Receives NSF Grant

Najoung Kim Receives NSF Grant

Join us in congratulating fifth-year PhD student Najoung Kim for receiving an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant in Linguistics! Najoung’s dissertation, entitled “Compositional Linguistic Generalization in Human and Machine Learning,” will investigate generalization […]