As the global population ages, the rising prevalence of neurodegenerative disorders and age-related cognitive impairment poses a significant challenge to ...

Cognitive science has increasingly focused on the mechanisms underpinning how humans generate, evaluate and update explanations. Explanatory reasoning—central to learning and inference—involves the ...

Conceptual spaces offer a geometrically grounded framework for representing knowledge, where concepts are mapped as regions within multidimensional spaces defined by quality dimensions. This approach ...

Virtual Reality (VR) has emerged as a transformative medium in neuroscience, moving beyond entertainment into a robust tool for experimental manipulation.

Faculty speakers at Purdue’s Interdisciplinary Conference in Cognitive Science said the university’s new Cognition, Agency, ...

Cognitive neuroscientists have described a brand new approach to making habit change achievable and lasting. Cognitive neuroscientists in Trinity College Dublin have published new research describing ...

Digital voice recordings contain valuable information that can indicate an individual's cognitive health, offering a non-invasive and efficient method for assessment. Research has demonstrated that ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive science research suggests that convenience comes at a measurable cost. When ...

Our M.A. is a flexible program of study that provides training in linguistics and/or cognitive science. Students may propose a customized program of advanced study that combines elements from either ...