CCD Reading Program Statement on Dyslexia and Reading Impairment
Dispelling misconceptions during Dyslexia Awareness Week: what we mean (and don't mean) when we talk about dyslexia.
Department of Cognitive Science
Welcome to the Department of Cognitive Science
The Department of Cognitive Science is a research department which carries out research and PhD supervision across a wide range of domains of cognitive science, including memory, language, belief formation, perception in action, and reading. The Department hosts the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, which brings together researchers from the Departments of Cognitive Science, Psychology and Linguistics at Macquarie University and thirteen other national and international institutions.
Latest Department News...
Open Day
In our "Measuring Brain Activity" presentation, we discussed the new major in Cognitive and Brain Sciences while providing a fun and engaging EEG demo using the Emotiv EPOC system.
Innovation and Scholarship Program 2015 Success
Dr Bianca de Wit and Dr David Kaplan have been awarded a project on "A scalable, cost-effective, and highly immersive labbased approach to undergraduate teaching in the cognitive and brain sciences".
Aston/Macquarie joint PhD scholarship for MEG studies of autism
Aston and Macquarie Universities invite applications from suitable candidates for a jointly funded, dual award PhD project on MEG studies of ASD.
New Major in Cognitive and Brain Sciences coming in 2016
An undergraduate major in Cognitive and Brain Sciences to be launched next year.
Reading Researchers open clinic to address learning challenges
The Macquarie Cognition Clinic for Reading is now open for business.
Further Information
Seminars
- Tuesday 20th Nov,
Dr Erik Chang,
"Assessing impacts of aging on human motor and executive control under ..." - Wednesday 21st Nov,
Dr Vitória Piai,
"Language and speech functioning through an electrophysiological lens. ..." - Tuesday 27th Nov,
Dr Sebastien Miellet,
"Mapping information use in active vision." - Wednesday 28th Nov,
Mr Mattis Geiger,
"Individual differences in emotion expression ability." - Tuesday 11th Dec,
Dr J. Brendan Ritchie,
"A varying role for abstraction in models of category learning ..."
Who is Visiting
- Professor Jason Hollowell
- Dr Olena Nikolenko
- Dr Lianzhong Zheng
- Dr Emmanual Chemla
- Associate Professor Sara Hart
- Dr Dona Jayakody
- Dr Erik Chang
- Dr Nichola Burton
- Dr Clare Sutherland
- Dielle Horne
- Dr Amy Dawel
- Ellen Bothe
- Samantha-Kaye Johnston
- Dr Ryan Balzan
- Dr Teresa Schubert
- Jemma Collova
- Derek Swe
- Professor Stefan Schweinberger
- Chloe Giffard
- Kaitlyn Turbett
- Dr Britta Biedermann
- Jonathon Love
- Professor Ingo Bojak
- Professor Sylvain Baillet
- Dr Christos Pliatsikas
- Professor James Douglas Saddy
- Professor Tom Johnstone
- Professor Matthew Lambon-Ralph
- Dr Sharon Savage
- Dr Donna Rose Addis [Previous Visitors]
Contact Details
Telephone: (02) 9850 9599
Fax : (02) 9850 6059
Email : cogsci@mq.edu.au
Web : www.cogsci.mq.edu.au