HeyJaredThe Cognition Project
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.
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- Sep 17, 2026
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Making Space: Barbara Tversky (opens the original)
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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. This episode is with Barbara Tversky, who carried out groundbreaking work studying how we perceive and reason about space. Tversky intertwines her story with that of her husband Amos, who died in 1996 and is known for his work with Daniel Kahneman on decision-making. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more i
Simple Ideas: Daniel Kahneman (opens the original)
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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. This episode is from an interview with Daniel Kahneman from 2015. Kahneman helped to spread the approach cognitive psychologists had developed to other fields, leading to the creation of behavioral economics. Kahneman received the Nobel Prize in Economics for these contributions in 2002. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c
Mapping Relations: Dedre Gentner (opens the original)
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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 analogies, and the broader importance of relations in human cognition. Her story of becoming a cognitive scientist features some of the people we have already met, like Donald Norman, as well as an eyewitness account of the first cognitive science con
A Strange Loop: Douglas Hofstadter (opens the original)
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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. This episode is about Douglas Hofstadter who wrote the book Godel Escher Bach. The book was responsible for many contemporary cognitive scientists entering the field. His own journey passes through music, physics, mathematics, linguistics, and computer science in a way that really reflects the interdisciplinary natu
The Power of Metaphor: George Lakoff (opens the original)
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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. This episode is about George Lakoff, who was excited and then disappointed by Chomsky’s approach to linguistics. Lakoff ended up taking a new approach to understanding language: cognitive linguistics. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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