Welcome to the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Connecticut

Cognitive science is the study of how intelligent beings (including people, animals, and machines) perceive, act, know, and think. It explores the process and content of thought as observed in individuals, distributed through communities, manifested in the structure and meaning of language, modeled by algorithms, and contemplated by philosophies of mind. Its models are formulated using concepts drawn from many disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, logic, computer science, anthropology, and philosophy, and they are tested using evidence from psychological experiments, clinical studies, field studies, computer simulations, and neurophysiological observation.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

4th annual Language Fest to be held Saturday, April 27th from 10am-4pm.

The Cognitive Science Program is pleased to announce that the 4th Annual University of Connecticut Language Fest will occur Saturday, April 27th 2013 from 10:00am to 4:00pm, on the 1st floor of Oak Hall. The Fest is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome to attend.

This festival, now in its fourth year, is an opportunity for members of the UConn community who work on language to get to know each others' research. Members from departments such as Psychology, Linguistics, Communication Disorders, Philosophy, and Education have attended past sessions to present their current research. A significant aim in holding the Language Fest is to catalyze more interdisciplinary research on language at UConn.

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Cognitive Science is searching to fill three faculty positions

The University of Connecticut, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, program in Cognitive Sciences is accepting applications for three tenure-track positions - two at the Assistant Professor level and one Open Rank, expected to start August 23, 2013. Successful candidates will be hired in home departments (e.g., Psychology, Linguistics, or Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences), and be full members of their home department in addition to contributing to the program in Cognitive Science. Candidates' research and teaching interests should fit well with those of the current program faculty, while contributing to our interests in developing specialties in Cognitive Neuroscience and/or Language Plasticity. We are hopeful that successful candidates will work with current members of the program toward the establishment of a neuroimaging center. Possible instantiations of successful candidate profiles include researchers who focus on: adults or children with language disorders; gene-brain-behavior links with language relevance; bilingualism and cross-language studies; translational research on language processes; language-based research situated within educational settings.

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UPCOMING COG SCI COLLOQUIUM

Friday, April 5, 2013

Michael J. Frank

Brown University
Neurogenocomputomics
BOUS 160
04:00 PM
Reception to follow in BOUS 187

Mar 26, 2013

Cognitive Science is co-sponsoring the following talk:

Diane Ackerman

Aetna celeration of Nonfiction

Thursday, March 7th at 7 PM

Konover Auditorium

http://creativewriting.uconn.edu/Flier_Diane_Ackerman.pdf

Mar 2, 2013

Talks of Interest:

Cognitive Science

Dr. Bonnie Nozari, University of Pennsylvania; Monday Feb 18, 12 noon, HBL Class of '47 room (library)

Dr. Nicole Landi, Haskins Labs/Yale University; Wednesday Feb 20, 4:30pm, Laurel room 301

Dr. Erica Cartmill, University of Chicago; Monday Feb 25, 12 noon, HBL class of '47 room (library)

Dr. Erika Skoe, Northwestern University; Friday March 1, 4:30pm, Oak 112

Dr. Eiling Yee, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language; Monday March 4, 10am, HBL Class of '47 room (library)

Dr. Stephen Goldinger, Arizona State University; Thursday March 7, 12 noon. HBL class of '47 room (library)

Dr. Gerry Altman, University of York, UK; Monday March 11, 12 noon, HBL Class of '47 room (library)

Mar 2, 2013