Welcome to the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science
We encourage undergraduate students to learn about faculty and graduate student research projects at Georgetown and to work as partners in that research.
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What is Cognitive Science?
Cognitive science is the study of the mind, of how we come to know the world and how we use that knowledge. Cognitive scientists use theories and methods drawn from many disciplines including cognitive psychology, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, linguistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, physics, mathematics, biology, and anthropology. They ask questions such as: How do people acquire language? What are the neural bases of perceiving, learning, and remembering? What is the nature of knowledge? Can machines think? How do experts differ from novices? Are there innate ideas? How did human intelligence evolve?
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Academics
Georgetown University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science offers an undergraduate minor in cognitive science, and courses open to all students. Our faculty come from several departments throughout the Main Campus, the Medical Center, and the Law Center. We have close ties with the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, a Ph.D. program based at the Medical Center. We encourage undergraduate students to learn about faculty and graduate student research projects at Georgetown and to work as partners in that research.
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I am currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Linguistics Department, and I am the Director of the Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science.
My primary research interests are in language acquisition and learning more generally. I am also interested in how the structure of the input constrains learners’ generalizations as well as what we can learn about the nature of their representations.