News & Announcements Archive


‘G’ whiz: Student’s lab work with the lowercase letter ‘g’ goes global

Since publishing a research study she led about the peculiarities of the letter "g," Kimberly Wong, a junior studying cognitive science, has been congratulated by people she barely knows, watched as friends and family shared links to news articles about the study, and fielded countless interview requests from reporters.


In Olympic Fashion, A Passing of the Torch

In Olympic Fashion, A Passing of the Torch
At a departmental reception, Brenda Rapp "passed the torch" to Geraldine Legendre, who will take over as chair of the Department of Cognitive Science on July 1, 2018. See the moment captured in this fun candid shot!


Barbara Landau elected NAS Member

Barbara Landau elected NAS Member
Dr. Barbara Landau was among the 84 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences, announced today, May 1, in recognition of their distinguished and continuing original research. Congratulations, Dr. Landau. [Click to read more]


Tom McCoy Receives NSF GRF

Tom McCoy Receives NSF GRF
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]


Brought to You by the Letter ‘g’

Brought to You by the Letter ‘g’
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.


Senior Arunima Vijay Receives Fulbright Award

Senior Arunima Vijay Receives Fulbright Award
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. 


Alum Receives Early NSF CAREER Award

Alum Receives Early NSF CAREER Award
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.


Science of Learning Conference Unites Researchers

Science of Learning Conference Unites Researchers
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.