cognitive science

Mark Turner, Institute Professor in the Department of Cognitive Science, received an Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The five-year, €250,000 prize will support his collaborations with faculty members at the University of Osnabrück and other German…

In September 2013, Distinguished University Professor Richard Boyatzis and Anthony Jack, assistant professor of cognitive science, philosophy and psychology, discussed using crowdsourcing as a method of raising funds to further their research on effective leadership. Nearly a year later, they are…

Research shows compassion and euthanasia don’t always jibe New research from Case Western Reserve University found that compassion can produce counterintuitive results, challenging prevailing views of empathy’s effects on moral judgment. To understand how humans make moral choices, researchers…

What sort of leader are you? Do you think leading is all about a laser-like focus on the task, watching the bottom line and making sure everyone is doing what they should? Or is it about listening to your team, being open to ideas and perspectives, and inspiring them to find their own…

Possible explanation for “withdrawal into self,” a characteristic of the disorder New research from Case Western Reserve University and University of Toronto neuroscientists finds that the brains of children with autism generate more information at rest—a 42 percent increase on average. The study…

Nearly a year after first-year student Alexandra “Ally” Piepho died suddenly of natural causes in her Illinois home, her parents have announced a scholarship for Case Western Reserve undergraduate students in her honor. “Ally was our daughter, our friend, our joy, our hope,” Wendy and Richard…

Anthony Jack, assistant professor of cognitive science, philosophy and psychology, will discuss his work investigating why minds and brains are perceived as two different things at the Buffalo Annual Experimental Philosophy Conference on Friday, Oct. 11, at the University of Buffalo. Jack will…

The Ethics Table brown bag lunch series will continue Wednesday, Oct. 2, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Thwing Center Meeting Room A. Shannon French, director of the Inamori Center for Ethics and Excellence, and Anthony Jack, assistant professor of cognitive science, philosophy and psychology, will…

Is there a brain area for mind wandering? For religious experience? For re-orienting  attention? A recent study casts serious doubt on the evidence for these ideas, and rewrites the rules for neuroimaging. Brain-mapping experiments attempt to identify the cognitive functions associated with…

Mark Turner, Institute Professor and professor of cognitive science, and Francis Steen, associate professor of communication studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, will lead this Friday’s Public Affairs Discussion Group. Steen, who will join the discussion via videoconference, and…