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July 9, 2025
Are opinions on controversial political issues as divided as many people perceive them to be? Researchers from the Complexity Science Hub (CSH), the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen and the University of California Merced have addressed this...
July 4, 2025
By inviting players to tackle real scientific problems, games can offer a hand in solving medicine's toughest challenges. Click below to read the full article written by Jeff Yoshimi, professor and founding faculty member in the Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences and the...
July 2, 2025
“We are not evolutionarily, psychologically prepared to understand that AI does not have general intelligence,” UC Merced Associate Professor Colin Holbrook said. He warns that AI is a dangerous tool to trust. Henry’s post says she “moved too fast under pressure,...
May 19, 2025
Congratulations to all CogSci graduates! On Friday May 16, we celebrated the achievements of a half-dozen junior cognitive-scientists who were awarded their PhDs during UC Merced's Graduate Commencement. And then on Sunday May 18, dozens of CogSci majors and minors walked the stage during...
March 20, 2025
Cognitive Science undergraduate student Maya Manesh has been awarded the Carter Joseph Abrescy and Larry Kranich Library Award for Student Research Excellence. Awarded annually by the UC Merced Library, the award "recognizes students who demonstrate effective use of UC Merced library and...
March 15, 2025
More than seventy-five undergraduate students, graduate students, and professors attended the first annual Brain Waves Research Symposium and Conference on March 1. The event was organized by UC Merced's Cognitive Science Student Association, a student-run campus club...
January 23, 2025
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November 20, 2024
Prof. Zenaida Aguirre-Muñoz has released a progress update from the first phase of "Advancing Educational Opportunity in the Central Valley Project," a research initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Do high school students in the Central Valley, especially students...
September 4, 2024
In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a UC Merced study allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them -- an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial intelligence, researchers said. Human subjects allowed robots to sway their judgment...
August 20, 2024
The Cognitive & Information Sciences Department at the University of California, Merced, is pleased to announce that the 15th recipient of the Distinguished Cognitive Scientist Award is Professor Morten Christiansen (Cornell University & Aarhus University). Professor Christiansen has...

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