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Are specific areas in the brain responsible for specific thoughts and behavior? Examining the modularity debate
By Ava Ma De Sousa This piece was originally posted on cogbites. Has anyone ever asked you if you are ‘right-brained’ or ‘left-brained’? Maybe you have even taken a Buzzfeed quiz to see which of these two sides ‘dominates’ your behavior. Though there is...
Remembering Gordon Bower
This summer, Gordon Bower, a leader in the field of cognitive science, passed away at age 87. He was well-known as a brilliant researcher and generous mentor. His colleagues and former mentees recently shared some of their memories and appreciations with us. Here's...
CogSci 2020: A recap of our first virtual conference
The 42nd Annual Virtual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society took place entirely online this year. Although attendees were scattered around the world in their own homes, there was no shortage of enthusiasm for connecting with colleagues and learning about new...
This week! Preparing for CogSci 2020
CogSci will be different this year. Then again, nearly everything is different this year. Although the community and our members have experienced wide-ranging challenges since our 2019 conference, we're grateful to have the opportunity to convene virtually. We hope...
Categorization is Cognition
By Gwen Price The word “categorization” might lead you to think of an aspect of cognition that is studied by a small subset of perception or language researchers. However, it is much more than that, and it is fundamental to understanding cognition as a whole....
Paradigm Shifts in Cognitive Science
By Minseok Kang Before cognitive science People were curious about how the mind works even before cognitive science started as a discipline. As with all other disciplines, philosophers were the first to have asked how the body and mind are related to each other, and...
Remembering Jacques Mehler
The field of cognitive science recently lost someone who has contributed greatly not only to cognitive science research, but also to the community. Others have written about his many contributions to the field, so we decided to feature reflections from people who have...
A Common Framework for Cognitive Science
By Alec Rogers Is there a common framework within cognitive science, and if so, what is it? Perhaps the lack of a shared model creates the lack of cohesion described in a recent article by Rafael Núñez: [Cognitive] science, explicitly named in the singular, was meant...
Why Cognitive Science? Perspectives from Graduate Students
By Michelle Rivers, Michael Baranski, Brendan Schuetze, & Mona Anchan Why did you decide to pursue cognitive science? The CSS blog team recently asked for some graduate students' perspectives on this question. Here's what they told us. Michelle...
Reflections from my first year on the tenure track
Post by Katharine Tillman I got a tenure-track job two years ago, right out of grad school. If you just checked my CV and you’re annoyed that I’m not a superstar, I don’t blame you. I worked hard, but I was lucky. Many stars needed to align in my favor. Here are some...
