Mon, 12/08/2025 MTS Speaker Ed Hagen - The Pleistocene Transition to Meat Eating and the Evolution of “Recreational” Drug Use Mon, 12/01/2025 MTS Speaker Rachel Ryskin - Noisy-Channel Inference: A Unifying Framework for Language Comprehensi…
MTS is the department’s Mind, Technology, and Society speaker series. It is hosted by a different faculty member each semester. Founded by a generous gift from Professors Robert Glushko and Pamela Samuelson, MTS brings researchers and indus…
Our award-winning faculty specialize in a variety of areas that intersect at this nexus, including computational modeling, complex systems theory, distributed cognition, categorization, psycholinguistics, cognitive linguistics, visual perce…
Students who started the program in 2022 or later should follow the current Policies and Procedures, available here. Students who started before 2022 can choose to follow either the current Policies and Procedures, or the Policies and Proce…
With the help of Robert Glushko and Pamela Samuelon, the Cognitive and Information Sciences faculty selects one person every year to honor with UC Merced’s Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award. The recipient is invited to campus to recei…
As an active cognitive science community, our diverse seminar series and broad collaborations often bring together researchers from multiple groups in the university. Friends of CogSci @ UC Merced include: Alberto Cerpa, Computer Science an…
Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action, University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories Title: Theory of Perception and Action for All Organisms: What Kind of Science Does it Entail? Abstract: I will highlight the argum…
UC Merced cognitive science faculty members recently honored Linda B. Smith with the spring 2009 Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award. This award is made possible by a generous gift from theGlushko-Samuelson Foundation which also funds t…
Alexia Galati, now faculty at University of North Carolina at Charlotte Oana David, now analytical linguist at Google Tom Flamson, now data analyst at CA Dept of Social Services Timothy Gann (2015), now working as a data scientist Marcus Pe…
The UC Merced Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences (CIS) has made a commitment to fostering an environment in which all members of its community feel safe, respected, and supported, regardless of their racial, national, socioeco…
The Cognitive and Information Sciences (CIS) Ph.D. program emphasizes collaborative and interdisciplinary research training. Cognitive science is a growing interdisciplinary field that combines knowledge and techniques from the social, natu…
The Cognitive Science Honors Program provides students with the opportunity to work hands-on with a faculty member to conduct their own independent research project. Students completing the Cognitive Science Honors Program with a high-quali…