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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...
Josh Tenenbaum Receives MacArthur Award
Featured image by Natalia Vélez Every year, the MacArthur Foundation awards “Genius Grants” to “talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.” This year, cognitive...
COVID-19, Cognitive Science, And Adaptive Responding: What Can The CogSci Community Do?
by Ulrike Hahn At a time when we are all thinking about how best to respond to the present global crisis, it seems timely to think also about how we, as the Cognitive Science community, can be most effective. What kind of science can we do, and how should we go about...
New ways to connect with the Cognitive Science Society
Since 1979, the Cognitive Science Society has brought researchers from a wide range of fields together to share, learn, and advance the study of cognition together. Traditionally, cognitive scientists have primarily connected with each other and with emerging research...
