The Center for Applied Cognitive Science is a multi-disciplinary center for research to advance global cognitive science by bringing together researchers in the biological, cognitive, social, and educational sciences with practitioners, designers, and community partners.

Our team harnesses insights about how the mind works to advance the global science of learning and to design more effective behavioral and social change interventions.

We conduct interdisciplinary and comparative research using mixed-methodologies emphasizing community engagement, equity, and international development.

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Research Areas


Public Health

Public Health

We leverage insight from social and biological sciences to develop innovative solutions to pressing concerns in health and medicine.

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Education

Education

We harness the empirical tools of cognitive science and related social scientific disciplines to improve educational outcomes.

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Cognitive Science

Cognitive Science

We study the capacity to learn, create, and transmit culture. We are particularly interested in studying cumulative culture.

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Child Development

Child Development

We take a collaborative and contextual approach to studying core topics in child development.

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Evolution, Variation, and Ontogeny of Learning Laboratory

The Center for Applied Cognitive Science is affliated with Cristine Legare’s EVO Learn Lab, a team of cognitive developmental scientists who study the interplay of our universal mind and the variation of human culture.

 

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