📢 New publication alert! "Beyond verbal self-explanations: Student annotations of a code-tracing solution produced by ChatGPT" by Abbey Gandhi and Kasia Muldner bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

An open access journal article with Zoe Roy-Stang and @drjimdavies.bsky.social looks at how thinking biases might influence people's perception of dangers of AI. Remedies suggested, too! jimdavies.org/research/pub... @carletonu.bsky.social @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social @mindingthebrain.bsky.social

What happens to your brain when you play music? It is possible that music provides cognitive reserve, which is essentially your brain's resilience to damage, by altering the connectivity of functional networks. 👇

Dr. Mary Kelly is a panelist for an important discussion of "AI Impact – Ethics, Policy, Security and Risk" at the Carleton Challenge Conference. To register for the conference: carleton.ca/challengecon...

Shoutout to our amazing team at @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social, and credit to Grad Student Taeko Bourque whose project this is This is just the beginning — SNF and similar approaches are going to transform how we understand brain health in aging. #neuroscience #alzheimer's

🧠 New preprint alert! @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social PhD student Salah Aziz and our fantastic team tracked hippocampal changes over time in >1,300 individuals using surface-based morphometry (SBM). Here's what we found—and why it matters for Alzheimer’s research 🧵 [1/]

Well done to members of the CANAL lab! Fantastic representation at Carleton’s Cognitive Science Student Conference @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social , @carletonfass.bsky.social

Minding the Brain was ranked number 8 in the best cognitive science podcasts by Feedspot! podcast.feedspot.com/cognitive_sc... @carletonu.bsky.social @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social @drjimdavies.bsky.social @drkimhellemans.bsky.social @mindingthebrain.bsky.social

📢 Join us this Wednesday, April 2, 15:00-16:00EST to learn about "Multilingualism at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, & education" with Dr. Gigi Luk Everyone is welcome! Join on campus (DT2203) and via Zoom carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/94196446262

New @mindingthebrain.bsky.social episode: Question and Answer, about ape brains, evo psych's rep... Listen! mindingthebrainpodcast.com/2025/03/15/a... or watch at youtu.be/o_AugoVFs80 @carletonu.bsky.social @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social @drjimdavies.bsky.social @drkimhellemans.bsky.social

This Wed, Mar 26, 15:00: learn about the Language and Cognition lab (director: Dr. Kasia Muldner)! On campus (DT2203) and on Zoom (carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/97410479268) Presentations: Zach Savelson: How do students reason and feel in productive failure? Abbey Gandhi: Beyond verbal self explanation

Jim Davies interviewed on CBC Ottawa Morning about the promises and dangers of generative artificial intelligence into school curricula. 10m. Listen at: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... @carletonu.bsky.social @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social @drjimdavies.bsky.social @mindingthebrain.bsky.social

Join us this Wednesday (March 19, 15:00-16:00EST) for a panel discussion "Working with Special Populations". Everyone is welcome! You can attend on campus (DT2203) or on Zoom (carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/95558414437) Panelists: Imola MacPhee, Josh Goheen, Arthur Hamilton, Teju Oladipo, Leah Marshall

Join us this Wednesday, March 12, from 15:00-16:00EST to learn more about "The Modularity of Delusion" with Dr. Ian Gold. Everyone is welcome to attend. You can join in person (DT2203) or via Zoom carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/99343590320

Podcast alert! Earlier this month, Dr. Mary Kelly discussed the ethics of A.I. with Shane Hewitt and the Nightshift: www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...

📢 Join us this Wednesday (Feb 26, 15:00-16:00EST) for a Lab Showcase featuring The Logic and Language (LOLA) lab and their industrial partnership with PaymentEvolution. Everyone is welcome! You can join on campus (DT2203) or online via Zoom (carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/93858715712)

📢 Join us this Wednesday (Feb. 12, 15:00-16:00) for a panel discussion on "Knowledge Mobilization & Media Relations". DT2203 & Zoom: carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/91684294578 Panelists: Dr. Jim Davies @drjimdavies.bsky.social, Alysha Cunningham, Ayushi Chitranshi, Liza Kahwaji

I'm currently interested in recruiting a master's student for this Fall 2025 to the CANAL lab. We're about to launch an MRI project focused on the intersection of #aging, #hearing, and #cognitivereserve Please get in touch! www.canallab.ca/contact #neuroscience @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social

📢 Join us on Jan. 29 at 15:00 for our next colloquium: "Unification of Cognitive Science: How to integratively study cognition through computation". You can join on campus (DT2203) or on Zoom carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/9890875403...

@drjimdavies.bsky.social Davies talks about the ethics of artificial intelligence, human bias, and threats of superintelligent AI in this article and podcast episode of AI Purity. Released August 2, 2024. www.ai-purity.com/podcast/cogn... @carletonu.bsky.social @carleton-cogsci.bsky.social

📢 Join us this Wednesday, January 22, 15:00-16:00EST for a panel discussion on "Choosing and Securing a Post-Doctoral Fellowship". Swipe through the images to learn more about our panelists: Dr. Jo-Anne LeFevre, @janderz8.bsky.social, Dr. Shuyuan Yu, Brendan Conway-Smith

Read this short article (~4 mins) to find out more about how researchers from the ANIMUS lab are "Humanizing Artificial Intelligence" by "Making AI More Effective and Reducing Risks by Replicating Our Brains" here: challenge.carleton.ca/making-ai-mo...

Save the date! The Carleton Cognitive Science Spring Conference will be on April 10. Abstracts are due Feb. 28, 11:59PM CFA: linktr.ee/carleton.cog... Degree Requirements for CU Cog Sci students: Masters: present at least 1 year. PhD: present at least 3 years. Undergrads: no requirements.