Founded at the 麻豆视频 in 1968, the Institute of Cognitive Science conducts research听to identify and address key questions in cognitive听science, building on our expertise in听cognitive neuroscience and artificial intelligence. Recent research efforts have听contributed both basic and applied knowledge in cognitive development, brain health and wellness,听cognitive modeling, emotion detection and processing, education and training, educational technology,听and speech and language processing. The Institute operates in partnership with nine academic听departments: Psychology and Neuroscience, Computer Science, Linguistics, Education, Philosophy,听Integrative Physiology, Architecture and Planning, Information Science, and Speech, Hearing and听Language Science (SLHS). The Institute's community is broad and intellectually diverse, encompassing听nearly 240 faculty, students, staff and other research personnel, many from our partner departments听and other units.听

The Institute of Cognitive Science research has focused in (but not limited to) three main areas in the past several听years:

  • Learning and Education: Theories, interventions, and innovative applications supportinghuman learning, sometimes augmented by artificial intelligence听and machine learning, across a听wide variety of learning and working environments
  • Brain Health and Wellness: Basic and applied research on the neural basis of emotions,听pain, and addiction, combined with the development of innovative frameworks and applications听supporting new wellness therapies and interventions
  • Cognition and Development: Basic and applied research into adolescent brain development,听language processing, and decision-making

Increasingly, data-intensive research methods involving large quantities of data and/or听multimodal data (brain, physiology, speech/text, performance) are used, which provides rich opportunities to build on and expand the research capacity in machine learning, natural language processing, and other听computational methods.

ICS听research is carried out by faculty and students in individual labs, interdisciplinary project teams,听and through five interdisciplinary research centers hosted by the Institute.听

ICS Research Centers & Labs

AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming (iSAT)

The NSF AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming bring together a network of researchers听from across the United States working side-by-side with public school districts, private companies听and community leaders to transform education and create an inclusive and AI-literate workfoce.

Center for Research and Education Addressing Cannabinoids and Health (CU REACH)

CU REACH conducts rigorous, multidisciplinary research devoted to the development of evidence based knowledge regarding the effects of听Cannabis.听

Center for Research on Training (CRT)

CRT constructs theoretical and empirical frameworks that can account for and make accurate predictions about the effectiveness of different training methods over a large range of tasks, including military, industrial, vocational, and academic tasks.

inquiryHub (iHub)

iHub is a research+practice partnership engaged in research and development of materials, tools, and processes to promote equitable student learning of STEM. This partnership recently released InquiryHub Biology, an open access, high school biology curriculum designed to support the Next Generation Science Standards. 听听

Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium (INC)

INC brings together听neuroscientists听who study complex psychological processes such as addiction, pain, emotion, attention, sleep, and learning and memory, as well as physicists and engineers who study and develop innovative听MRI methods and analysis techniques.

Faculty Labs

Faculty led research laboratories are at the heart of the Institute of Cognitive Science's drive to fulfill its interdisciplinary mission.听In addition to the list of ICS faculty labs, a vast amount of research are conducted partnering with ICS fellows' labs.