Cognitive Science Program
Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, has received the 2013 American Psychological Association Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.
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The Office of the Dean of the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences is packing and labeling boxes this week, preparing to move to Owen Hall, just steps north of its current home in Kirkwood Hall. The College's administrative offices will close Friday, March 8 at 5 p.m. and remain closed through Monday, March 18.
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Using a grown-up version of the rock-paper-scissors game, Indiana University cognitive scientists offer a new theory of the group dynamics that arise in situations as varied as cycles of fashion, fluctuations of financial markets, eBay bidding wars and political campaign strategies.
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At a Bloomington, Ind., toy store, kids ages 8 to 12 gather weekly to trade Pokemon cards and share their mutual absorption in the intrigue and adventure of Pokemon. This may seem an unlikely source of material to test the theories in cognitive neuroscience. But that is where Indiana University brain scientists Karin Harman James and Tom James were when an idea took hold.
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Indiana University Bloomington cognitive scientist Michael Jones, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Colorado, University of Texas at Austin and Washington University in St. Louis, was awarded $2.5 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to develop an automated system for large-scale synthesis of human neuroimaging data. NeuroSynth.org is intended to be sort of a "Google of the brain" for researchers in cognitive neuroscience.
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Indiana University Distinguished Professor Linda B. Smith, internationally known for her pioneering research and theoretical work in the development of human cognition, is the 2013 recipient of the David E. Rumelhart Prize. The prize, which includes a $100,000 monetary award, recognizes teams or individuals "making a significant contemporary contribution to the theoretical foundations of human cognition."
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