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Kungl. Vitterhets­akademien:
Swensonska priset till Peter Gärdenfors

Kungl. Vitterhetsakademien har tilldelat Peter Gärdenfors, professor i kognitionsvetenskap, Ann-Kersti och Carl-Hakon Swensons pris för humanistisk och samhällsvetenskaplig forskning 2021. Peter Gärdenfors får priset för sitt nydanande och originella bidrag till humanvetenskaplig forskning, särskilt genom sin utveckling av det kognitionsvetenskapliga …

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Two open PhD position at LUCS
Apply by March 1, 2021

Two vacant PhD positions are open for applications at LUCS (Lund University Cognitive Science). Last application date is March 1, 2021. ► Announcement [in English] ► Utlysning [på svenska]

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Pufendorf Lecture 2020: Daniel C Dennett

Open Zoom lecture: Daniel C Dennett, January 20th at 15:00. The Department of Philosophy and Lund University Cognitive Science are happy to announce that an unbroken line of Pufendorf laureates in times of cancelled events has been secured. An open …

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Nya avsnitt av podden “Mycket Hjärna” – Avsnitt 16 & 17

Utantill som innantill (Avsnitt 17) Behöver man fortfarande lära sig saker utantill i skolan, och i så fall varför? Vi diskuterar betydelsen av att kunna saker ”utan och innan” och varför förkun-skaper är så viktiga för att man ska kunna …

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Choiche Blindness featured in the BBC podcast: The Big Idea

Petter Johansson presents Choice Blindness in the BBC podcast The Big Idea (Episode: The fragility of choice). – Do you know why you believe what you believe? Why you are left or right wing, say, or why you find another …

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Mathias Osvath ny ledamot i Sveriges unga akademi

Sveriges unga akademi välkomnar i dagarna Mathias Osvath och sju andra nya ledamöter från lärosäten i Göteborg, Linköping, Lund, Stockholm, Umeå och Uppsala. Sveriges unga akademin är ett oberoende forum för yngre, ledande forskare från alla forskningsområden. Ledamotsperioden är begränsad …

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2020 Ig Nobel Acoustics Prize – Stephan Reber

The 2020 Ig Nobel Acoustics Prize was awarded to Stephan Reber and colleagues (Stephan Reber, Takeshi Nishimura, Judith Janisch, Mark Robertson, and Tecumseh Fitch) for inducing a female Chinese alligator to bellow in an airtight chamber filled with helium-enriched air. …

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Christian Balkenius ny ledare för WASP-HS forskarskola

Christian Balkenius, professor i kognitionsvetenskap vid Lunds universitet, har utsetts till ansvarig för WASP-HS forskarskola. Christian Balkenius forskning handlar om att förstå den mänskliga hjärnan och mekanismerna bakom olika kognitiva förmågor som uppmärksamhet, minne och inlärning. Genom att reproducera mänskliga …

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News at LUCS

Celebrity duo Filip and Fredrik takes the choice blindness lab’s magic moral survey

  • Posted on: 11.8.16
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, In the news, LUCS

In SVT’s show ‘Social Monsters’, Filip and Fredrik takes the choice blindness lab’s magic moral survey....

Om korpforskning på SVT “Mitt i naturen”

  • Posted on: 11.4.16
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Corvid research, In the news, LUCS

I säsongsstarten av ”Mitt i Naturen” deltar Mathias och Helena Osvath från gruppen kognitiv zoologi och...

New edited book: Audio Description – Research and Practices

  • Posted on: 10.14.16
  • Tags: Language & vision, LUCS, Mental imagery

Associate professor Jana Holsanova is one of the editors of the book Syntolkning – forskning och...

Kunskapskanalen: Smartare lek- och lärspel för barn

  • Posted on: 10.10.16
  • Tags: Educational Technology, LUCS

Kunskapskanalen: Lyssna, förstå, lära Den 10 och den 11 oktober sänds CCL:s symposium “Lyssna förstå &...

Philip Pärnamets receiving the Glushko Dissertation Prize from Linda Smith and Robert Glushko at CogSci 2016.

Philip Pärnamets recipient of Glushko Dissertation Prize.

  • Posted on: 10.10.16
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, Decision making, LUCS

The 2016 recipients of the Robert J. Glushko Prizes for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations/theses in Cognitive Science...

Orangutans can predict taste of juice mixes

  • Posted on: 08.15.16
  • Tags: Animal cognition, In the news, LUCS, Primate research

A new study from LUCS shows that humans might not be the only one endowed with...

A novel tool-use mode in animals: New Caledonian crows insert tools to transport objects

  • Posted on: 07.31.16
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Corvid research, In the news, LUCS

New research from members at LUCS! Paper New Scientist

Crow birds rival great apes in motor self-regulation

  • Posted on: 05.3.16
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Corvid research, In the news, LUCS

New publication in Royal Society Open Science: “Ravens, New Caledonian crows and jackdaws parallel great apes...

Kursbetygssystemet är lärfientligt i sig självt

  • Posted on: 04.17.16
  • Tags: Educational Technology, In the news, LUCS

Agneta Gulz (Educational Technology Group) responds to a debate in Sydsvenskan (SDS) about the Swedish course...

New analytical model for e-sports predicts who is winning – and why

  • Posted on: 03.11.16
  • Tags: Cognition, In the news, LUCS

Tobias Mahlmann at LUCS has together with research colleagues Matthias Schubert at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität in Germany...

Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Zoology

  • Posted on: 03.5.16
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Cognition, Corvid research, LUCS, Primate research

The fellowship is placed at the cognitive zoology group at the sub-department of cognitive science (Department...

WIRED blurbs about Choice Blindness in piece about magic in science

  • Posted on: 02.24.16
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, LUCS

“Perhaps the most eye-opening use of magic in research was Lund University’s Thomas Strandberg, who created...

Research Groups

► Audio Description and Accessibility
► Choice Blindness Lab
► Cognitive Zoology Group 
► Educational Technology Group 
► Decision Making 
► LUCS Robotics Group 

10 Latest Publications

► Goupil, L., Johansson, P., Hall, L., & Aucouturier, J. J. (2021). Vocal signals only impact speakers’ own emotions when they are self-attributed. Consciousness and Cognition, 88. Early online.
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.103072
[ Restricted Access (Elsevier) ]

► Stephens, A., Tjøstheim, T. A., Roszko, M., & Olsson, E. J. (2021). A Dynamical Perspective on the Generality Problem. Acta Analytica. Early online.
DOI: 10.1007/s12136-020-00458-6
[ Open Access (Springer) ]

► Gärdenfors, P. (2020). Primary Cognitive Categories Are Determined by Their Invariances. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:584017.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.584017
[ Open Access (Frontiers) ]

► Franken, M. K., Hartsuiker, R. J., Johansson, P., Hall, L., & Lind, A. (2020). Speaking with an alien voice: Flexible sense of agency during vocal production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. Early online.
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000799
[ Restricted Access (APA PsycNet) ]

► Brinck, I., Heco, L., Sikström, K., Wandsleb, V., Johansson, B., & Balkenius, C. (2020). Humans Perform Social Movements in Response to Social Robot Movements: Motor Intention in Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
DOI: 10.1109/ICDL-EpiRob48136.2020.9278114.
[ Restricted Access (IEEE Xplore) ]

► Balkenius, C., Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B., Wallin, A., & Gärdenfors, P. (2020). The Missing Link Between Memory and Reinforcement Learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:560080.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.560080
[ Open Access (Frontier) ]

► Anikin, A., Pisanski, K., & Reby, D. (2020). Do nonlinear vocal phenomena signal negative valence or high emotion intensity? Royal Society Open Science, 7(12):201306, 1-12.
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201306
[ Open Access (Royal Society) ]

► Tjøstheim, T. A., Stephens, A., Anikin, A., & Schwaninger, A. (2020). The Cognitive Philosophy of Communication. Philosophies, 5(4):39, 1-18.
DOI: 10.3390/philosophies5040039
[ Open Access (MDPI) ]

► Gärdenfors, P. & Douven, I. (2020). What are natural concepts? A design perspective. Mind and Language, 35(3), 313-334.
DOI: 10.1111/mila.12240
[ Open/Restricted Access (Wiley) ]

► Gulz, A. (2020). Das unverzichtbare Klassenzimmer. Falter HEUREKA, 3:2020, 14-15.
[ Free Access (Falter.at) ]
[ PDF: Svensk översättning ]

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