Neural representations: From humans to artificial networks and back ABSTRACT: I will discuss various properties of neural representations (dimensionality, spectra, hyperalignments) found in biological brains and show how they can […]
What kind of computation is cognition? Prof. Josh Tenenbaum is a Professor in the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Prof. Tenenbaum studies the computational basis of human […]
It is our pleasure to announce Zihan Wang as the 2023 Glushko Outstanding Undergraduate Cognitive Science Prize recipient! Zihan will give a virtual talk on "Characterizing Complex Spatial Skills: Block […]
Students who have received a degree in Cognitive Science in Summer 2022, Fall 2022 or Spring 2023 are invited to celebrate with us and to bring their family and friends […]
Pragmatic inference in spatial language. ABSTRACT: Spatial prepositions left, right, above, below, in, on, and others belong to a closed lexical class, meaning that the same spatial term frequently describes […]
Structural Representations in Online Syntactic Processing: An Artificial Neural Network Approach. ABSTRACT: Speakers of a language are able to effortlessly determine whether sentences abide by grammatical rules: we instantly know […]
Brain and Emergence: From Syntergetic Cort to Causal Structure ABSTRACT: Emergence, also known as "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts", is a widespread phenomenon in various […]
A group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from the Department of Cognitive Science, are offering one-on-one mentoring about applying to our PhD program in Cognitive Science. The priority deadline […]
Rethinking Language-Alignment in the Human Visual System Using Controlled Comparisons of Vision-Language Models and Wordplay ABSTRACT: Recent success predicting ventral visual stream responses to images from large language model (LLM) […]
Applications for Spring 2024 admission to the MA in Cognitive Science program are due October 15th.
Associative Memory Contributes to Regular and Irregular English Past Tense Production: Evidence from Williams Syndrome Abstract TBA. Rennie Pasquinelli is a PhD candidate interested in cognitive and linguistic development in […]
Making sense of the world: People, places, and THINGS. Abstract: Light falling on the retina triggers neural activity that is propagated along sub-cortical and cortical pathways to ultimately elicit the […]