Three Belief Formation Program researchers win prestigious APA awards
Associate Professor Amanda Barnier, Dr Michael Connors and Dr Rochelle Cox won prestigious research awards from the American Psychological Association.
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...
Erasmus Mundus International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language and Brain (IDEALAB)
Macquarie University is the first full partner Australian University of an Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate Program - a prestigious European funding initiative.
Associate Professor Amanda Barnier recognised for exceptional leadership and achievement
The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis (SCEH) awarded this year's Bernard B Raginski Award for Leadership and Achievement in Hypnosis to Associate Professor Amanda Barnier. Read more »
Associate Professor Anina Rich wins 2013 Paul Bourke Award for research excellence
Each year, The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia honours Australians in the early parts of their careers who have achieved excellence in scholarship in one or more fields of the social sciences. Read more »
Congratulations Shu Hui Yau, Three Minute Thesis Trans-Tasman finalist
Congratulations to Shu Hui Yau for making it to the grand finals of the 2013 Trans-Tasman Three Minute Thesis competition! Read more »
Cognitive Science appoints a new Deputy Head of Department
Associate Professor Genevieve McArthur has been appointed as a new Deputy Head of Department.
Anne Castles elected as Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Professor Anne Castles has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA).
Further Information
Seminars
- Monday 3rd Mar,
Dr Dany Adone,
"From V to V+V+(V) Constructions: How serial verb constructions are acq..." - Monday 10th Mar,
Assistant Professor Tim Hunter,
"Sharpening the empirical bite of syntactic derivations. (CLaS-CCD Rese..." - Friday 14th Mar,
Professor Andrea Halpern,
"Memory for music and art in Alzheimer's Disease." - Friday 14th Mar,
Mr Andy Thwaites,
"Function expression in EMEG source space." - Wednesday 19th Mar,
Distinguished Professor Peter Godfrey-Smith & Professor Kim Sterelny,
"Dual-inheritance models of cultural transmission. (CCD Cognition in Co..." - Friday 21st Mar,
Professor John Duncan,
"A core brain system in assembly of cognitive episodes."
Who is Visiting
- Michelle Mostard
- Professor Roelien Bastiaanse
- Professor Ria De Bleser
- Professor David Howard
- Professor Barbara Hohle
- Professor Gabriele Miceli
- Rasmus Gahrn-Andersen
- Dr Joana Cholin
- Professor Maria Teresa Guasti
- Leonie Franken
- Geoff Cumming [Previous Visitors]
Contact Details
Telephone: (02) 9850 9599
Fax : (02) 9850 6059
Email : cogsci@mq.edu.au
Web : www.cogsci.mq.edu.au