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Department of Cognitive Science

The Department of Cognitive Science is a thriving interdisciplinary department, which offers a PhD program with a comprehensive range of rigorous coursework and active research experience. It is a research-based training program that specializes in but is not limited to the study of the social and biological bases of cognition. 

Jun
Dima Amso

Departmental Colloquium: Infant learning and memory systems and impact on attention orienting

Dima Amso (Columbia University)
May
Melissa Kibbe

Departmental Colloquium: Computations underlying "arithmetic" over non-symbolic representations of quantity

Melissa Kibbe (Boston University)
May
Emily Liquin

Departmental Colloquium: How curiosity guides us towards good explanations

Emily Liquin (NYU)
Apr
Tobias Gerstenberg

Departmental Colloquium - Going beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in human cognition

Tobias Gerstenberg (Stanford University)
Apr
Julia Leonard

Departmental Colloquium: Social influences on children’s persistence

Julia Leonard (Yale University)
Mar
Limor Raviv

Departmental Colloquium - Linking Language acquisition, language evolution, and language diversity: How social and cognitive pressures shape learning and communication

Limor Raviv (MPI Nijmegen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Mar
Baumard and Dubourg

Departmental Colloquium: What fictions do people like at different ages? Predictions from evolutionary developmental psychology

Nicolas Baumard and Edgar Dubourg (École Normale Supérieure)
Feb
Nadja Althaus

Departmental Colloquium: Words as cues to categorisation in infancy

Nadja Althaus (School of Psychology, University of East Anglia)
Jan
Tecumseh Fitch

Departmental Colloquium - Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness

Tecumseh Fitch (Dept of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna)