Laboratories
Center for the Advancement of Cognitive Science (CFACS)
CFACS was established to provide a common environment and vision for budding and
established scientists at OU (and affiliated institutions) from which to tackle with
unprecedented scientific rigor and interdisciplinary fervor some of the most
fundamental unsolved problems in Cognitive Science and Psychology. To this end, our
core mission is to approach the study of the animal mind and brain with the same kind
of methodological thoroughness and definitional precision that physicists employ in
their study of the physical world: namely, via the development and testing of
mathematical and computational models of behavior and cognition, and via fastidious
empirical research. Our second goal is to use reliable, replicated, robust, and accurate
findings from the study of perception, conception, and memory to try to better
understand the nature of phenomena studied in fields such as Ethology, Affective
Psychology, and Clinical Psychology. The ultimate aim is to develop a unified and
precise science of the mind and brain in the spirit of the best Psychophysics research.
Ronaldo Vigo, Ph.D.
Director
CFACS was established to provide a common environment and vision for budding and
established scientists at OU (and affiliated institutions) from which to tackle with
unprecedented scientific rigor and interdisciplinary fervor some of the most
fundamental unsolved problems in Cognitive Science and Psychology. To this end, our
core mission is to approach the study of the animal mind and brain with the same kind
of methodological thoroughness and definitional precision that physicists employ in
their study of the physical world: namely, via the development and testing of
mathematical and computational models of behavior and cognition, and via fastidious
empirical research. Our second goal is to use reliable, replicated, robust, and accurate
findings from the study of perception, conception, and memory to try to better
understand the nature of phenomena studied in fields such as Ethology, Affective
Psychology, and Clinical Psychology. The ultimate aim is to develop a unified and
precise science of the mind and brain in the spirit of the best Psychophysics research.
Ronaldo Vigo, Ph.D.
Director
Welcome
OHIO UNIVERSITY’S
Robots.net article (11-12-2012) on
the 2009 paper titled ‘How to
reason without words: inference as
categorization’
Acoustics.org press release (10-
19-2012) on a presentation at the
164th Acoustical Society of
America (ASA) Meeting.
Talk at the University of Trento (4-
20-2011) titled ‘Kernels of a
Unified Theory of Conceptual
Behavior’
Robots.net article (12-29-2012) on
the 2013 paper titled ‘Complexity
Over Uncertainty in Generalized
Representational Information
Theory (GRIT): A Structure-
Sensitive General Theory of
Information.’
Behavior 2013 Sympsium: “The
cognitive continuum: filling in some
of the gaps between humans and
other species.” Organizer, Robert
Biegler. Featured Talk: Vigo &
Halsey, “Conceptual Behavior and
Optimal Molding in Human and
Non-Human Animals: A
Comparative Theoretical
Investigation.”
CFACS center for the advancement of cognitive science
