Department of Cognitive Science
Welcome to the Department of Cognitive Science
The Department of Cognitive Science is a research department which carries out research and PhD supervision across a wide range of domains of cognitive science, including memory, language, belief formation, perception in action, and reading. The Department hosts the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, which brings together researchers from the Departments of Cognitive Science, Psychology and Linguistics at Macquarie University and thirteen other national and international institutions.
Latest Centre News...
MQ Sustainability Representative
MACCS appoints new Deputy Director
NSW Young Tall Poppy Award
Anne Castles elected as Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Successful ARC Centre of Excellence bid
Professors Stephen Crain, Anne Castles and Max Coltheart, along with Professor John Hodges of UNSW and Professor Gillian Rhodes of UWA, have been successful in their bid for an ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders.
Face first: New study finds face recognition ability is in our genes
Researchers have discovered that the ability or inability to recognise faces is not a learned skill or the product of a person's environment as previously thought - it's actually in their genes.
Further Information
Seminars
- Tuesday 29th May,
Thomas Whitford,
"Distinguishing self from world: implications for schizophrenia"
Who is Visiting
- Dr Zoe Plympton
- Amir Sadeghi
- Dr Petroula (Betty) Mousikou
- Sam Wilkinson
- Dr Carolyn Wilshire
- Professor Roy Kessels
- Professor Ken Forster
- [Previous Visitors]
Contact Details
Telephone: (02) 9850 9599
Fax : (02) 9850 6059
Email : cogsci@mq.edu.au
Web : www.cogsci.mq.edu.au







