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The Cognitive Science Department provides theoretically-oriented research and training opportunities for undergraduates, graduate students, and post doctoral fellows. As a fully autonomous academic unit, we provide a focused environment that is wholly dedicated to the multi-disciplinary intellectual challenge of integrating contemporary approaches to the study of the mind/brain.

How to Apply to the Ph.D. program
Applications for admissions to our graduate program are due January 17 annually.

What's New

Two Open Faculty Positions
[Read  the call for applications]


Paul Smolensky Awarded International Blaise Pascal Research Chair 
[Read about it here]

Recent Presentations & Publications

Recent Publications

Berent, I., Lennertz, T., Smolensky, P. & Vaknin, V. To appear. Speakers’ knowledge of phonological universals: Evidence from nasal clusters. Phonology.

Berent, I., Lennertz, T., Jun, J., Moreno, M. A. & Smolensky, P. 2008. Language universals in human brains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105 (14), 5321–5.

Culbertson, J., and S. Gross. (in press). Are Linguists Better Subjects? The British Journal of Philosophy of Science.

Culbertson, J. (in press). The status of Old French clitics in the 12th century. In Romance Linguistics: Structures, Interfaces, and Microparametric Variation: Selected Proceedings of Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXXVII. 79-93. New York: John Benjamins. [ABSTRACT]

Culbertson, J., and G. Legendre. (2008). "Qu'en est-il des clitiques sujet en français oral contemporain?" Proceedings of the 1er Congrès mondial de linguistique française. Paris, France.

Dessalegn, B., & Landau, B. (2008). More than meets the eye: the role of language in binding and maintaing feature conjunctions. Psychological Science.

Finley. S. Morphemic harmony as featural correspondence (accepted). Lingua.

Finley, S., and Badecker, W. Analytic biases for vowel harmony languages. Proceedings of WCCFL 2008. Paper Available

Finley, S.The interaction of vowel harmony and epenthesis. CLS 2008 Proceedings. Paper Available

Goldberg, A.M., Rapp, B. (in press) Is compound chaining the serial order mechanism of spelling? A simple recurrent network investigation. Cognitive Neuropsychology.

Landau, B., Dessalegn, B., Goldberg, A. (in press). Language and Space: Momentary Interactions. In P. Chilton and V. Evans (Eds.), Language, cognition and space: The state of the art and new directions. Advances in Cognitive Linguistics Series (Ed, V. Evans, B. Bergen, J. Zinken). London: Equinox Publishing.

Miozzo, Michele; Fischer-Baum, Simon; Postman, Jeffrey. Knowing where but not what: Impaired thematic roles and spatial language. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 25, 853-873

Smolensky, Paul. 2008. Introduction to the 2006 Rumelhart Prize Special Issue Honoring Roger Shepard. Cognitive Science 32 (1), 1–2.


Recent Talks and Poster Presentations

Costa, V., Fischer-Baum, S., Rapp, B. and Miceli, G. (2008). The Stability and Separability of Representations in Working Memory. Poster presented at the 5th Workshop on Language Production, Annapolis, MD

Culbertson, J. (2008). "Subject doubling in Spoken French and the status of subject clitics." Meeting Clitics Workshop. Barcelona, Spain. [HANDOUT]

Culbertson, J., G. Legendre. (2008). "Qu'en est-il des clitiques sujet en français oral contemporain?" 1er Congrès mondial de linguistique française. Paris, France.

Culbertson, J., G. Legendre, T. Nazzi, & N. Filippin. (2008). "Subject Doubling in Spoken French: Evidence from acceptability judgments, prosody, and acquisition." Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages XXXVIII, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
[HANDOUT]

Culbertson, J. & S. Gross. (2008). "Are Linguists Better Subjects." Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
[POSTER]

2008. Finley, S., and Badecker, W. Analytic biases for vowel harmony languages. Talk presented at WCCFL, May, UCLA.

2008. Finley, S.The interaction of vowel harmony and epenthesis. Talk presented at CLS, April,2008.

2008. Finley, S. and Badecker, W. Right-to-left biases for harmony: Evidence from artificial grammar. Talk presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January, Chicago. Handout Available

2008 Finley, S. Myopia in vowel harmony: A representational approach. Poster presented at the Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, January, Chicago. Handout Available

2008. Finley, S., and Badecker, W. Front/back asymmetries for height harmony. Poster presented at LabPhon 11, Wellington, New Zealand, June/July.

Fischer-Baum, S. and McCloskey, M. (2008). Serial order representations in immediate serial recall. Poster to be presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Chicago

Fischer-Baum, S. and Rapp, B. (2008). Underlying causes of letter perseveration errors in dysgraphia. Talk to be given at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Turku, Finland

Fischer-Baum, S. and Rapp, B. (2008). Perseveration Errors and the Temporal Dynamics of Cognitive Processes. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco

Gregory, McCloskey and Landau.   The representation of the orientation of objects in children.  Poster presented at VSS, May 2008, Naples.

Kirov, Christo, 2008. Forward and Reverse Recall in Simple Recurrent Networks. 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC.pdf

Miozzo, M., Fischer-Baum, S. and Postman, J. (2008). Knowing what but not where. Impaired thematic roles and spatial language. Poster to be presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Turku, Finland

Morley, R. How Likely Are Impossible Languages? An Experimental Study of Epenthesis. Talk to be presented at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, CA. (2009)

Morley, R. Integrating Sub-phonemic Cues: Learning across a morpheme boundary. Poster presented at Laboratory Phonology 11, Wellington, NZ. (2008)

Morley, R. Bayesian Learning over Conflicting Data: Predictions for language change. Talk presented at SIGMORPHON 2008, Columbus, OH. (2008)
In Proceedings of 10th Meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Computational Morphology and Phonology, pages 2-11.

Morley, R. Phonetic Detail in the grammar: Learning conditioned coarticulation patterns. Talk presented at the Symposium on Phonologization, Chicago. (2008)

Ramadoss D. Exemplars versus Mental Categories in the Tonal Phonology of Yoruba. Presented at HUMDRUM, Rutgers University, April 2008

Wilson, C., Wolmetz, M., Smolensky, P. (2008) Replicator dynamics of speech perception and categorization. Poster at the 11th Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 11, Wellington New Zealand). Abstract

Wolmetz, M, Poeppel, D., and Rapp, B. (2008).  "Speech processing in the absence of categorical perception." Poster at Cognitive Neuroscience Society (San Francisco).


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