Cognitive science is the transdisciplinary study of the human mind. The Department of Cognitive Science at CWRU is unique in its focus on human higher-order cognition, in particular our remarkably sophisticated capacities for creativity, innovation, communication, and social cognition.
Research emphases include the workings of the human mind in multimodal communication, design, art, and technology, the origins of human higher-order cognition, interaction of brain and culture in development and evolution, the role of the body and social interaction in shaping human cognition, and the operation of systems that human beings have invented to guide their thought and action individually and culturally.
The Department of Cognitive Science at CWRU makes use of the traditional methods of linguistics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, biology, and anthropology along with new, integrated methods that have been invented within cognitive science over the last several years.
Date posted: March 6th, 2018
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Date posted: January 21st, 2018
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Date posted: January 21st, 2018
Date posted: November 13th, 2017
This course explores “literary” aspects of the way we think, as well as how features of our cognition are reflected in our creative use of language in stories, jokes, poetry, and other artful artifacts. …Read more.
Date posted: October 6th, 2017
Discuss the Cogsci major and minor, learn about opportunities and careers, meet the leaders of the Cognitive Science Student Organization. Everyone invited! …Read more.
Date posted: October 6th, 2017
Michael White is visiting from Ohio State on 10/6 Friday. He works in natural language processing. His talk abstract and bio are below. His seminar is 1:30-2:30 in White 411.
In this talk, I will discuss two scenarios where it is important to avoid generating sentences with structural ambiguities. …Read more.
