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1974-1987, predominant 1981-1987 (Creation)
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- Centre for Cognitive Science
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60 cm of textual records
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The Centre for Cognitive Science was established to encourage and coordinate cognitive science research as a recognized area of interdisciplinary study within the University’s existing departmental structure. It brought together, at Western, researchers with backgrounds in the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, electrical engineering and robotics, artificial intelligence, information science, linguistics and philosophy. The Centre was started in 1981 under a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Western’s Academic Development Fund. Its activities included sponsorship of postdoctoral fellows, a visiting speaker series, a series of technical monographs and reports, and occasional conferences and workshops on topics of interest to the Centre’s various research groups. While the Centre for Cognitive Science has been dissolved, the exact date of dissolution is unknown; its existence appears to have ended between 2000 and 2005. Zenon Pylyshyn, professor of Psychology and Computer Science, was the director of the Centre from its inception until 1994, when he left the University of Western Ontario to join the faculty at Rutgers University.
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These records were found, in 2004, by the staff of the University of Western Ontario Archives at 1383 Western Road. They had presumably been stored there, and eventually abandoned, by the Centre’s director or staff. In 2007, the Department of Psychology formally transferred the records to the University of Western Ontario Archives.
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The fonds consists of materials related to the activities of the Centre for Cognitive Science during the time that it was headed by Zenon Pylyshyn (1981-1987). The records include correspondence, memoranda, agenda, minutes, brochures, email copies, research papers, and other materials. Fonds is comprised of the following series: General correspondence Unfiled correspondence Memoranda Canadian Institute for Advanced Research records Cognitive Science Society records
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These records are restricted in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. Researchers must submit a “Research Access Request” to the University Archivist to view these records.