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The Cognition Project

Tom Griffiths
Cognitive Science
Language Acquisition
Behaviorism
Jerome Bruner
Artificial Intelligence
Generative Grammar
Psycholinguistics
Relational Cognition
Noam Chomsky
Gender Equality In Academia
Computational Linguistics
Cognitive Psychology
Analogy
Child Development
Word Learning
Philosophy Of Language
Lila Gleitman
Wug Test
Linguistics
Psychology

How can we study the mind, something we can never see or touch? This podcast tells the story of how psychologists, neuroscientists, computer scientists, linguists, and philosophers worked together to create a new science of the mind. Each episode is an interview with one of the people who played a role in this process, providing an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griff... more

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The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a professor of psychology and computer science.

Dedre Gentner’s research has helped us understand how people form a... more

The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a professor of psychology and computer science.

This episode is about Douglas Hofstadter who wrote the book Godel E... more

The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a professor of psychology and computer science.

This episode is about George Lakoff, who was excited and then disa... more

The Cognition Project is an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, the head of Princeton’s AI Lab and a professor of psychology and computer science.

One of the central questions of cognitive science is how we repres... more

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Recent Guests

Dedre Gentner
Cognitive scientist known for structure-mapping theory and analogy research
Institute for Cognitive Science, formerly UCSD and Urbana
Episode: Mapping Relations: Dedre Gentner
Douglas Hofstadter
Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach; cognitive scientist
Indiana University Bloomington (former), self-described cognitive scientist
Episode: A Strange Loop: Douglas Hofstadter
George Lakoff
Cognitive linguist, articulator of metaphor theory and embodiment in language
Rockefeller University? (not specified in transcript)
Episode: The Power of Metaphor: George Lakoff
Eleanor Rosch
Pioneer in cognitive psychology and Buddhism-informed cognitive science
Berkeley; Cognitive Science Society (first president)
Episode: Centers and Peripheries: Eleanor Rosch
Donald Norman
Cognitive scientist and usability engineer
Episode: Applied Cognitive Science: Donald Norman
Ewart Thomas
Mathematician and cognitive psychologist
Stanford University (at time), Cambridge, UCL, Michigan
Episode: Models Without Dogma: Ewart Thomas
Richard Shiffrin
Cognitive scientist focused on memory; discussed Stanford era and memory modeling
Indiana University / Stanford University (past work)
Episode: A Student of Memory: Richard Shiffrin
Roger Shepard
Pioneer in cognitive psychology and multidimensional scaling
Stanford University / Bell Labs (historical)
Episode: Seeking Universal Laws: Roger Shepard
Gordon Bower
Cognitive psychologist and researcher interviewed at his Stanford home in 2017
Stanford University
Episode: From Rats to Hypotheses: Gordon Bower

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Tom Griffiths
Host of The Cognition Project; professor of psychology and computer science with Princeton University affiliations; notable for integral role in cognitive science discourse and interdisciplinary interviews.

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#224
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Mapping Relations: Dedre Gentner
Q: How did your early interests in mathematics and physics influence your later work on relational structure and analogy?
Gentner describes how her love of abstract structures and the intuition for how ideas connect led her to focus on relational representations and mapping across domains, rather than just matching surface features.

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A thoughtful, interview-driven series exploring the origins and evolution of cognitive science through the voices of its leading researchers and practitioners. Across recent episodes, conversations center on language, memory, perception, categorization, and the cross-disciplinary evolution of the field—from early cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics to human–computer interaction and AI. Notable threads include foundational theories (metaphor and embodiment, universal cognition, memory modeling), methodological shifts (from behaviorist roots to computational and neural approaches), and historical retrospectives on how institutions, collaborations, and funding shaped the modern study of mind. The format shines in deep-dive, personal nar... more

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2. Douglas Hofstadter
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4. Eleanor Rosch
5. Donald Norman
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