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Remembering Roger Shepard
Roger Shepard, a pioneering cognitive scientist, passed away on May 30, 2022. He is perhaps best known for his classic experiments on mental rotation, but also made foundational contributions across a broad range of topics including visual and auditory perception,...
Celebrating Undergraduate Cognitive Scientists
The Cognitive Science Society would like to honor the next generation of cognitive scientists by highlighting this year’s Robert J. Glushko award winners. Each year, undergraduate students across many universities are selected for Robert J. Glushko awards for academic...
Building better cockpits: Cognitive Science in airplanes and Research Labs
The B-17 Bomber, also known as “the flying fortress,” was a four-engine heavy bomber plane used in World War II that became famous for being able to return to base even after sustaining heavy damage. Despite their effectiveness, B-17s had an unfortunate tendency: They...
Finding Your Voice: Academic Writing in an International Context
I have just received the revisions of a colleague on my PhD dissertation, and among all her insightful remarks, one in particular struck me. She wrote that the first person singular pronoun I is very frequent in my text, and suggested that I used more passive or...
The importance of breaks
The irony of writing about the importance of breaks, on what is historically a ‘day of rest’ (Sunday) is certainly not lost on me. The admission that early career researchers work far beyond their 40 hour a week temporary contracts is widely documented (Bozzon,...
Remembering Lila Gleitman
Lila R. Gleitman, a winner of the David E. Rumelhart Prize for her contributions to the theoretical foundations of human cognition, passed away on August 8, 2021. Gleitman was Professor Emerita of Psychology and Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania, and a...
What a cognitive linguist means by meaning and why it could impact research in Natural Language Processing
Meaning has always been the focus of Cognitive Linguistics since its early days in the 1970s. Foundational research in the then newly started field shed light on how meaning construction processes were key for understanding the mechanisms of language. The same...
Youth-led Neuroscience Organisations
The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth. – John F. Kennedy Being the flag bearers of the future, the youth play a very important role in terms of having a wilful temperament, robust energy, and intellectual...
Welcome to latest members of the CSS Team
Marcelo Viridiano,CogSci Content Production Manager Marcelo Viridiano graduated from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, with a bachelor’s degree in Arts and Design and is currently a Ph.D. student at the FrameNet Brasil Computational Linguistic Lab...
Welcome address from the incoming Executive Editor of the Cognitive Science Journal
The Mindset of Cognitive Science The aims of Cognitive Science have been passed to us from the ones that inspired its founding, to “transmit the excitement surrounding the paradigm shift in the study of cognition made possible by the synthesis of artificial...
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The Cognitive Science Society is pleased to announce the establishment of the CogSci Grove which aims to mobilise cognitive scientists to offset carbon emissions associated with their professional activities. To date, 1681 trees have been planted in protected sites in the Scottish Highlands where they will create homes for wildlife and forests for the future.
