COGS Research Club
Cogs'n Coffee
AIM:
Cogs'n Coffee started out in 2023 with the name COGS Research Club, with the aim of bringing together the students and the faculty in the department to discuss their research, share their ideas, and get to know each other. To emphasize the social nature of what the meetings try to accomplish, the name has now been changed to Cogs'n Coffee. We will be hosting speakers to talk about their own research, discussing books and articles, and have chats about the graduate school experience in all of its aspects. Last but not least, we will have coffee!
SCOPE:
The following types of presentations and interactive meetings can be held within the scope of Cogs'n Coffee:
- Presentations from COGS faculty and research assistants on their fields of study or research topics, with interactions and feedback from the audience.
- Thesis/non-thesis master's students’ and doctoral students' presentations on the subjects they are working on or planning to study, with interactions and feedback from the audience.
- Sessions where students or alumni share their experiences on specific topics.
- Seminars with invited people from outside of COGS.
- Discussion sessions or workshops around specific topics.
- Article/book reading and discussion sessions.
- Lectures on the effective use of various research tools, experimental methods or tools for computer modeling.
- Crash courses on topics related to cognitive science.
Colloquia
Cognitive Science Colloquia are held throughout the year and consist of seminars/talks given by invited speakers from various universities, as well as seminars by the METU staff or our own PhD students:
As part of the METU Informatics Institute Seminar Series, Cognitive Science faculty invites nationally and internationally renowned speakers and organizes seminars on Cognitive Science and related fields.
Past Meetings
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April 7, 2023 |
Burak Büyükyaprak "Creating Semantically Related and Unrelated Word Lists for Episodic Memory Research using Word Embeddings" 30 minutes + QA and discussions. |
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April 14, 2023 |
Ecenur Çağırıcı
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April 21, 2023 |
BAYRAM |
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April 28, 2023 |
Ali Eren Çetintaş Sara Razzaghi Asl |
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May 5, 2023 |
Alaz Aydın “Crash course: Bayesian Methods in Cognitive Modelling” |
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May 12, 2023 |
Ceyhan Temürcü “Crash course: Possible Worlds Semantics/Modal Logics” |
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May 19, 2023 |
BAYRAM |
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May 26, 2023 |
Mustafa Erolcan Er “PhD research (in Computational Linguistics)” |
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June 2, 2023 |
Burcu Alakuş
Barbaros Yet
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June 9, 2023 |
Barbaros Yet "Version Control and Git for Reproducible Research" |
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August 1, 2023 |
Tuğçe Nur Pekçetin "Ph.D. research in Human-Robot Interaction: Studying Mind Perception in the Context of Social Robotics" |
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August 8, 2023 |
Moderator: Rojda Özcan Discussion of Esra Mungan's 2023 Article "Gestalt theory: A revolution put on pause? Prospects for a paradigm shift in the psychological sciences." |
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August 15, 2023 |
Moderator: İbrahim Ethem Deveci Discussion of Paul Cisek's 1999 Article "Beyond the Computer Metaphor: Behavior as Interaction." |
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August 22, 2023 |
Moderator: Rojda Özcan Discussion of Andy Clark's book "Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind" (Chapter 1) |
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August 29, 2023 |
Moderator: Rojda Özcan Discussion of Andy Clark's book "Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind" (Chapter 2-3) |
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September 5, 2023 |
Moderator: Rojda Özcan Discussion of Andy Clark's book "Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind" (Chapter 4-5) |
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September 12, 2023 |
Moderator: Rojda Özcan Discussion of Andy Clark's book "Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind" (Chapter 6-7) |
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September 19, 2023 |
Moderator: Rojda Özcan Discussion of Andy Clark's book "Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind" (Chapter 8-9-10) |
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September 26, 2023 |
Moderator: Alaz Aydın Discussion of Woensdregt's 2020 Article "A computational model of the cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading" |