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Congratulations Dr. Dr. Mannering!

5/12/2023

 

Huge congrats to Willa Mannering, who defended her PhD and is off to use neural networks to make the world a better place! Dual PhDs in both Psychology and Cognitive Science, so it's technically Dr. Dr. Mannering.   Best of luck Willa, and don't forget to visit us! 

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Brendan wins Psychonomic Early Career Award

6/9/2022

 
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Yet another huge congratulations to lab alumnus Dr. Brendan Johns who was recently selected as the 2022 winner of the very prestigious Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society!  That makes it a hat trick of awards this year....go Brenda! 

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Brendan wins 2022 Vincent Di Lollo Early Career Award from CSBBCS

5/30/2022

 
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Huge congrats to lab alumnus Dr. Brendan Johns who was recently selected as the 2022 winner of the prestigious Vincent Di Lollo Early Career Award from the Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science. Brendan adds this to his recent Early Career Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 

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Upcoming talk schedule

1/6/2020

 
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Northwestern University (Jan 21): The stability-plasticity dilemma in predictive neural network models of semantic memory


Psychonomic Society Editors Retire!

12/1/2019

 
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​Mike Jones and Steve Lewandowsky were honored for their service to the Psychonomic Society at the recent Annual Conference. 

Mike steps down December 31 after six years as Editor-in-Chief of Behavior Research Methods (BRM), the world's top methodology journal. Mike and his team have built BRM into the highest impact journal in the 60-year history of the Psychonomic Society, and BRM now has a higher impact factor than all major competitors. 

Mike: Your watch has ended!

FABBS Award Winners at SCiP Presidential Symposium

11/18/2019

 
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This year's Presidential Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Computation in Psychology (SCiP) featured the winners of the Early Career Award from the Federation of Associations of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS): Laura Allen (2019 winner), Rick Dale (2016 winner), and Mike Jones (2012 winner). 

Mike's talk was titled Limits of Deep Learning: Modeling Human Learning to Inform Machine Learning 

In memory of Dr. Douglas J. K. Mewhort

3/6/2019

 
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Dr. Douglas John Kerr Mewhort, 1942 - 2019

Beloved husband, father and professor, Doug passed away in Kingston on Thursday, February 28.  Although his health had declined for several years, the end was mercifully quick.
Doug was the only son of Daniel and Robena Mewhort (née Kerr).  Growing up in Toronto, he began to play French Horn at North Toronto Collegiate.  He received his A.R.C.T. in 1960 and played professionally in Toronto and at the Stratford Festival, and later with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra.

Although he never abandoned the horn, he was lured from his first vocation by Psychology, which he claimed had "all the most interesting problems".  He studied at the University of Toronto (B.A. Hon, 1964) and the University of Waterloo (M.A., 1965; PhD. 1968).  Doug joined the Psychology Department of Queen's University in 1968 and was still active there as Professor Emeritus at the time of his passing. 
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Doug published extensively in the fields of Cognitive Psychology, Statistics, and Computational Modeling.  He fought for Queen's to invest in first-class computing resources.  He also contributed generously to his profession at the national and international levels.  His academic honours included Fellow of The Canadian Psychological Association, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Fellow of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour & Cognitive Science (2017), and Fellow of the Psychonomic Society.   ....Full Obituary 

Jessica wins NSF and McDonnell Awards

10/14/2018

 
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 Congrats to Jessica Montag on winning her first NSF grant as PI to study early word learning environments and the effects of early picture book reading. Jessica also won a prestigious J. S. McDonnell Foundation Award to develop new simulation methods to understand optimal early word learning environments, expanding on our recent paper in Cognitive Science. Jon and Jessica recently moved to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where they are setting up their new labs. 

Mike gives "State-of-the-Art" Lecture at ICAP 2018

6/22/2018

 
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Mike will give one of the invited State-of-the-Art lectures at this year's International Congress of Applied Psychology in Montreal. Every four years, the IAAP organizes a world congress of applied psychology which serves as a review of advances in applied psychology and unites several thousand psychologists from all over the world. 

Mike's lecture is titled Advancing Psychological Theory by Mining Big Data and is intended to be a broad survey and taxonomy of current cutting edge work being conducted to use big and naturalistic data sources and sensors to reverse engineer the psychological mechanisms that generated the behavioral traces. 

Melody wins Glushko Award

4/18/2018

 
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Massive congratulations to Dr. Melody Dye, who is the recipient of this year's Glushko Dissertation Award from the Cognitive Science Society. This very competitive award is highest honor in our field for a graduate student, won for Melody's doctoral dissertation "Bridging Levels of Analysis: Learning, Information Theory, and the Lexicon."   It also comes with $10k, so that isn't bad either. 

Melody will receive the award and give a talk on her dissertation work at this year's Cognitive Science Society Conference in Madison. 

Melody wins dissertation award.

4/9/2018

 
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Congrats to lab alumna Melody Dye, who was presented with the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the IU Cognitive Science Program for her work adapting information theory to study optimal language and nominal systems design. 

Melody is currently a Sloan/Moore Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Information, UC Berkeley. 

Teaching methods go from lab to classroom

9/7/2017

 
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The lab's IES funded project with the Karpicke lab at Purdue was briefly covered in the recent issue of Science. The special piece was  spotlighting recent projects funded by IES to translate science of learning findings from the lab into practice in the classroom to boost learning and retention. 

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE. 

Farewell Fatemeh!

8/22/2017

 
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Farewell to Dr. Fatemeh Torabi Asr! 

Fatemeh has been the leader of the IU end of our IES project on automated learning technologies with the Karpicke Lab at Purdue Unviersity. Fatemeh leaves us to take a position at Simon Fraser University in Canada. 

Best of luck, and you will be greatly missed!

Farewell Dr. Dye!

8/16/2017

 
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Huge congratulations to Dr. Melody Dye on successfully defending her PhD dissertation!

Melody has taken a position as a prestigious Berkeley Data Science Fellow, working with Marti Hearst at the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science.

Farewell Mel, and good luck from us all!

Melody wins Marr Award and Berkeley Fellowship!

6/13/2017

 
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Huge congratulations to Melody Dye for winning this year's David Marr Award from the Cognitive Science Society! The Marr Award is widely considered the most prestigious CogSci student award in the world...only one is given out each year for the best student paper. The award will be presented to Melody at the 2017 CogSci conference in London, UK. 

Melody won a very competitive position as a Berkeley Data Science Fellow, and will begin working with Marti Hearst at the UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science as soon as she defends her PhD next month! 

Congrats Mel!

Farewell to Yogi's!

6/1/2017

 
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Yogi's Bar and Grill has been the standard Friday afternoon watering hole for the cognitive science labs for well over a decade now. Sadly, it abuptly closed down, and we have no good home for after lab meetings. 

Many great ideas came from meetings in the area pictured to the left. Here is the final ever picture of the group brainstorming at Yogi's. 

Janelle wins Insight Data Science Fellowship!

5/31/2017

 
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Congrats to Dr. Janelle Szary, who leaves the lab next month to take up a prestigious Insight Data Science Fellowship in New York. Janelle will be working with the best in the world to bridge her computational skills from academia into industry to solve real problems! 

Best of luck from us all Janelle! 

Mike is Plenary Speaker at HPCS 2017

4/22/2017

 
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Mike will present Modeling Human Learning to Inform Machine Learning as one of the invited plenary speakers at this year's High Performance Computing Symposium, Canada’s premiere Advanced Research Computing (ARC) conference, bringing together top researchers from across Canada and around the world, as well as major industry partners.



IU awards up to $3 million to advance new approach to study of learning

1/11/2017

 
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IU Bloomington Emerging Areas of Research program makes inaugural grant


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Can machines learn to think like children? An interdisciplinary team of cognitive scientists, neuroscientists and computer scientists at Indiana University Bloomington has received the campus’s inaugural Emerging Areas of Research funding award to explore that question.
Called “Learning: Brains, Machines and Children,” the first Emerging Areas of Research initiative is led by Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of psychological and brain sciences in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences. The research team will receive up to $3 million for the four-year project.  

[News Release]   [Project Description]

Brendan Johns presents keynote at SCiP 2016

11/22/2016

 
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Lab Alumus Dr. Brendan Johns, now Assistant Professor at University at Buffalo presented a keynote talk at this year's Society for Computers in Psychology, in Boston. Brendan was invited as part of this year's focus topic on Cognitive Technologies. 

The title of Brendan's address was ​Content-Driven Machine Learning: Using Lexical Variability to Optimize Models of Natural Language, and this was the first introduction to the field of our new methodology for Experiential Optimization. 

Generalized Correspondence LDA

10/10/2016

 
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We have released a github page containing a python implementation of gc-lda for identifying functional regions in the brain:

https://github.com/timothyrubin/python_gclda

Paper,    Supplemental materials,   ​Poster

Sequential dependence in online restaurant reviews

9/26/2016

 
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Click here to read Data on the Mind

For this Featured Project, we're talking to Dave Vinson, a Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive and Information Sciences at the University of California, Merced.  

Some of his recent work explored whether a basic psychophysiological phenomenon -- sequential dependence -- might be predictive of higher-level behavior in more naturalistic settings. He and his coauthors decided to tap into the massive Yelp dataset to understand the real-world effects of sequential dependence. In this interview, he shared his thoughts on the challenges and rewards of working with big data as a cognitive scientist.

​READ MORE....

Tim goes to SurveyMonkey

9/13/2016

 
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Congrats to Dr. Tim Rubin, who is leaving his position in the lab to join the NLP Data Science Team at SurveyMonkey in Palo Alto. 

Tim ran our lab's arm of the multisite NeuroSynth project for 4 years, and created the NeuroTopics approach to co-discovery of functional-anatomical brain regions and cognitive processes from the neuroimaging literature. 

U.S. Wastes 2 Million Hours Annually Figuring Out Where Tape Roll Starts

8/31/2016

 
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http://www.theonion.com/article/study-us-wastes-2-million-hours-annually-figuring--50764

But think of the massive impact on the economy if we could find an optimum solution strategy!

Big Data Book Coming Soon! 

7/27/2016

 
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Big Data in Cognitive Science is in production, and should be on shelves in the fall. If you're super eager, you can always pre-order a copy on Amazon. 

Read Introductory Chapter: Developing Cognitive Theory by Mining Large-Scale Naturalistic Data 


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