January 18th, 2012
DEMOCRACY DESPITE ITSELF
This talk will attempt to reconcile a seeming paradox about democracies:
1) Voters are typically uninformed and irrational in their voting, politicians aren’t particularly adept at understanding or implementing the will of their constituents, and elections are inherently biased.
but
2) The governments chosen by those flawed voters, in those flawed elections, and consisting of those flawed politicians consistently lead to better outcomes for their citizens than governments chosen any other way.
Using insights from cognitive science, psychology, and political psychology, this talk will discuss some of the counterintuitive reasons that democracies are so successful.
Fowler 202
Tuesday, January 24th
5:00pm – 6:45pm
Refreshments will be served.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!
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January 5th, 2012
Congratulations!
The following Cognitive Science students have been selected to receive an ASP grant for the Fall 2011 semester:
Giancarlo Hirsch & Jai Levin - Effect of Expectation on Perception of Flavor Combinations
Alison Yih-Hsin Ban - Localization of the Crossmodel Transfer of Temporal Rate Adaptation
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October 25th, 2011
Sara Wong was selected to receieve a Howard Hughes Medical Institute apprenticeship grant to work on her project, Using the Temporal Rare Adaptation Negative After-Effect to Further Understand the Brain’s Timing Mechanisms, during the Fall 2011 semester.
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October 7th, 2011
DORIS TSAO
Assistant Professor of Biology, CalTech
The Neural Machinery for Processing Faces
October 12th
Fowler 202
5pm – 6:45pm
Refreshments will be served!
Sponsored by Remsen Bird
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September 13th, 2011
FIND OUT WHAT FACULTY AND STUDENTS HAVE BEEN UP TO THIS SUMMER.
When: September 15th
Time: 5:00pm
Where: Sycamore Glen
Pizza, snacks and drinks will be served!
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April 27th, 2011
Come to the end of the year Cognitive Science party
Celebrate the end of the year with faculty, staff, majors, minors, and others interested in cog sci.
Fowler 103
Friday April 29th
3pm-5pm
Refreshments will be served
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April 6th, 2011
COGNITIVE SCIENCE SENIOR COMPREHENSIVES PRESENTATIONS
Monday, April 11, 2011 – 6:00-9:00 p.m. – Fowler 202
| Sarah Ford, “Psychopathology: Could It Just Be a Matter of Time?”
Kathryn Newlander, ”Cochlear Implants in Children with Pre-Lingual Deafness: Cognition and Development”
Sandra Dekoum,
” Self-Perception and the Body: A New Perspective on Dualism”
Conor Anderson, “Recalibration of the Audio and Visuo-Tactile Modalities: Complex vs. Simple Stimuli”
Lee Richardson, “Assessing the Empirical Validity of Ontological Confusion”
Hanna Kim, “Sacred & Profane: The Cognitive Representation of God-Concepts” |
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
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March 4th, 2011
Jonah Lehrer is a Contributing Editor at Wired and the author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist. He has written for The New Yorker, Nature, Seed, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.
March 17, 2011
4:30 -6:00 pm
Johnson 201
Sponsored by Remsen Bird Funds, The Department of English Writing & The Cognitive Science Program
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February 28th, 2011
The 2011 CogSci Senior Comps presentations will be held on April 11 from 6-9pm.
Presenters:
- Conor Anderson
- Sandra-Paulette Dekoum
- Sarah Ford
- Kathryn Newlander
- Lee Richardson
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February 16th, 2011
Join CogSci faculty and students watch Watson compete against previous winners on Jeopardy.
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