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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...
Welcome address from the incoming Executive Editor of Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS)
A scientific marketplace Imagine you have invited a friend to a home-made dinner and are out shopping for food. Presumably, you would go to a grocery store or, if within reach, a farmers’ market, where you know you can get what you need in good quality and sufficient...
Celebrating Journal Editors Wayne Gray and Rick Cooper
By Caroline Verdier, Managing Editor of Cognitive Science I’ve been working with two extraordinary people for the past—well, who’s counting the years? Wayne Gray and Rick Cooper will soon step down as the executive editors of their respective journals, Topics...
Seven Lessons about Prejudice from Social Neuroscience
By Ava Ma de Sousa This post was originally published on Cogbites. Figure 1. Image created with Canva. Reference: Amodio, D., & Cikara, M. (2020). The social neuroscience of prejudice. In press at Annual Review of Psychology. Is racism rooted in the brain?...
Thank you to our outgoing Executive Journal Editors
Some Parting Words Richard P. CooperExecutive Editor (2015 – 2020)Cognitive Science It has been a great honour and privilege to serve as Executive Editor of Cognitive Science for the past six years. During that time the journal has, I believe, maintained its identity...
