Cognitive Science Majors
There are ___ focal areas in the Cog Sci major
What is 5?
This lab focuses on the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and computational vision.
What is the Cognitive Neuroscience and Deep Learning Group? (Dr. Bonner)
Omega Psi is the honor society of this department at JHU
What is Cognitive Science?
This effect describes our tendency to remember the last items in a list better than the ones in the middle.
What is the recency effect?
This person is the head of the department of Cognitive Science at JHU
Who is Margaret Renwick?
Research in this lab focuses on normal and impaired cognitive functioning in the areas of reading, spelling, writing, visual perception, and cognition
What is the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab? (Dr. McCloskey)
This is the minimum Cognitive Science GPA required for Omega Psi Honors membership
What is 3.5?
When the meaning of a word conflicts with its color, this effect causes slower reaction times.
What is the Stroop Effect?
This person is the Academic Program Coordinator who sends weekly emails to Cognitive Science undergrads, including research opportunities
Who is Chamera Sampson?
This lab focuses on the nature and development of human knowledge of space and language.
What is the Language and Cognition Lab? (Dr. Landau)
To be an Omega Psi Honors member, one must complete this many hours of Cognitive Science research or involvement
What is 40?
Famously demonstrated by the ‘invisible gorilla’ experiment, this phenomenon causes people to miss obvious things when focused on a task
What is inattentional blindness?
Cognitive Science was added as a major at JHU in this year
What is 1986?
This lab studies how people rapidly extract social information from scenes using a combination of human neuroimaging, behavior, and machine learning.
What is the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab? (Dr. Isik)
Omega Psi members must attend at least this fraction of GBMs each semester
What is 2/3?
If something feels more common just because you can think of examples quickly, you’re using this cognitive shortcut.
What is the availability heuristic?
There are around ___ undergraduates at JHU that are Cognitive Science majors
What is 100?
This lab studies spoken language to improve models of speech from both the speaker’s and the listener’s point of view.
What is the Sociophonetics Lab? (Dr. Renwick)
Each year, Omega Psi hosts this event featuring faculty speakers and student research presentations.
What is the Annual Conference?
This illusion makes two equal lines look unequal because of the direction of the arrows at their ends.
What is the Müller-Lyer illusion?