"Using Data Science to Study Children's Cognitive Development" Abdellah Fourtassi Following the seminal work of Piaget, the traditional approach in cognitive development has focused on studying the structure of children’s knowledge in controlled situations (e.g., laboratory experiments). While this approach allows for precise inference about how children behave in certain tasks, it cannot provide an […]

"Musicians at the cocktail party: Neural correlates of bottom-up and top down mechanisms" Robert Zatorre Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University Segregating sound mixtures makes demands on multiple cognitive and neural mechanisms that musical training may enhance or exploit. In a series of studies we have documented the music-related enhancement behaviorally in the context of speech […]

Prospects for Collaborative Research between Latin Palaeography, Cognitive Psychology and the Neurosciences Twenty years ago, Brian Stock, the distinguished Canadian historian of medieval literature and philosophy, published Augustine the Reader, a seminal resource for examining the patristic vocabulary for reading in the fifth century C.E.  The Latin verbs videre and inspicere came to be closely […]