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!

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]

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. 

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.