Research Coordinator, Connecticut Project   The TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health (TMW Center) develops science-based interventions, tools, and technologies to help parents and caregivers interact with young children in ways that maximize brain development. A rich language environment is critical to healthy brain development, however few tools exist to measure the quality or quantity of these environments. Access to this type of data allows caregivers to enhance interactions in real-time and gives policy-makers insight in how to best build policies that have a population-level ..read more

The Cognitive Science Program and the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Department are co-hosting a talk on 11/10!    Speaker: Dr. Samuel Mathias, Professor of Psychology from the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School Time & Location: 4PM, Friday November 10, 2023, in McHugh Hall Room 206 Talk Title: “Genetic and environmental influences on hearing, cocktail-party listening, and cognition” Abstract: Everyday hearing requires solving the cocktail-party problem, or segregating and attending to the relevant parts of complex auditory scenes. The ..read more

We are pleased to announce TWO undergraduate course offerings from The Cognitive Science Program in Fall 2023. Seats are filling up quickly so sign up soon!    Coding for Cognitive Science  Course Name: COGS 2500Q: Coding for Cognitive Science   Days and times: Tuesdays & Thursdays from 9:30am – 10:45am    Classroom: Oak 308   Instructor: Dr. Stefan Kaufmann   Instruction mode: Hybrid Limited   Prerequisites: None   Course overview: This course is an introduction to ..read more

The Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences is excited to share the recently finalized IBACS 22/23 Brain Digest that features the Cognitive Science Program. Thank you to all of the faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students who have contributed- especially our graduate student editors, Cynthia Boo and Lee Drown! We hope you will enjoy reading it as much as we’ve enjoyed creating it. Please email the IBACS Coordinator, Crystal Mills, at crystal.mills@uconn.edu if you’d like physical copies mailed to you. IBACS-Brain-Digest_FY2023   ..read more

Sentence and Discourse Processing (PSYC 5583)      Fall, 2023 (timeslot to be determined)     Instructor:  Whitney Tabor (whitney.tabor@uconn.edu)      This course provides an introduction to psycho- and computational linguistics at the sentence and discourse levels.   It includes a theoretically-grounded exploration of Deep Learning/Large Language Models (LLMs), linking these to psycholinguistic work on phenomena at the boundary of competence and performance.  The course focuses on a number of structural/semantic ..read more

We are asking you to save the date for the 2023 IBACS Meet & Speak event on Friday, April 28th from 9-4:30pm. This exciting event will be in-person in Konover Auditorium.    Affiliated faculty will give 10-minute talks, most of which are on the research they have carried out, or propose carrying out, with seed funding awarded by IBACS. Affiliated graduate students who have received IBACS funding will present 5-minute “datablitz” style talks.    The event will provide an opportunity to learn more about the diverse in ..read more

We are excited to announce that Language Fest is making an in-person return for 2023, and invite you to join us on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 26th (event times TBD).   Language Fest is a University-wide research conference that welcomes the full cross-disciplinary community of language researchers at UConn for a day of sharing results, ideas, methodologies, and fostering future interdisciplinary collaborations. Researchers from all disciplines of the language sciences and at all career stages are welcome and encouraged to submit their work.     Further details about ..read more

The Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) is pleased to announce a new call for applications to its seed grant fund.      The seed grant program is intended to fund research consistent with the IBACS mission. Large Seed Grant applications (>$10,000 but <$25,000) are time-limited to accommodate GA/TA assignment. Please submit letters of intent as soon as possible, but at least 2 weeks prior to the seed grant application deadline (by 3/19/23 ..read more

The Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) is inviting graduate students to apply for the IBACS-BIRC Research Assistantships in Neuroimaging (IBRAiN) Program. These graduate assistantships are for 10 hours per week during the Fall (2023) and Spring (2024) semesters at the Brain Imaging Research Center (BIRC). During the first year, assistants will be trained in neuroimaging methods, data science, and reproducibility. Assistants will spend the remaining allocated hours at BIRC, supporting users of BIRC facilities. This could involve helping design and implement experimental proc ..read more

The Cognitive Science Program invites you to a talk on 2/24! Speaker: Dr. Thomas Naselaris, an Associate Professor from Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. Time & Location: 4PM, Friday February 24th, 2023, in Oak Hall Room 117. Light refreshments will be provided.  RSVP Form  Talk Title: “Why Do We Have Mental Images?”   Abstract: Everyone who experiences mental imagery is the world expert on the contents of their own mental images. We argue that this privileged perspective on one’s own mental images provides very limited understanding about ..read more