Here are some of the many extraordinary alumni of Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Cognitive Science graduate programs, in their own words.
To see a complete list of our alumni, initial positions, and current positions, please visit our PhD Alumni or MA Alumni pages.
The training and mentoring I received were crucial to my scientific development; especially the department's commitment to equipping students with foundational mathematical and philosophical tools
The training I received in the Cognitive Science program at JHU has given me an invaluable foundation for my development as a linguist and cognitive scientist
My graduate training in Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins prepared me to think critically about research questions from varied perspectives and to conduct research using multiple methodologies.
Going with cognitive science rather than traditional linguistics was one of the best decisions I ever made
I learned how to approach research questions from diverse theoretical perspectives and think about them critically
Through my training I developed a solid theoretical understanding of cognitive science and expertise in a variety of research methods, which allowed me to establish myself as a cognitive neuroscientist.
CogSci at Johns Hopkins taught me how to be interdisciplinary, how to be a cognitive scientist
The graduate training I received in the CogSci department at Hopkins gave me a strong theoretical basis for my research
The [PhD] program taught me how to ask the right questions and how to tackle these questions from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. This training made me incredibly well-prepared for a career in linguistics and artificial intelligence.