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: September 7th, 2017
Larry Muhlstein presents on “Interactive Communicative Inference”
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Date posted: June 23rd, 2017
Date posted: April 3rd, 2017
Natalia Igl presents on “Framing the Text, Positioning the Reader: The ‘observer’-paradigm in 1920s-30s German modernist aesthetics.”
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Date posted: November 8th, 2016
Thursday 11/10, 11:30-12:30, Thwing 224
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Date posted: October 3rd, 2016
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 3rd, 2016
Suren Naicker presents on “An analysis of conceptual metaphors in the Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda.” See the colloquium page for details. …Read more.
