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The Cognition Project

The Cognition Project

Written by: Tom Griffiths
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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. Each episode is an interview with one of the people who played a role in this process, providing an oral history of cognitive science. Created and hosted by Tom Griffiths, professor of psychology and computer science at Princeton University.



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  • From Cybernetics to Neural Networks: Michael Arbib
    Nov 5 2026

    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.


    In this episode, Michael Arbib tells the story of his journey from cybernetics to neural networks and ultimately trying to understand how the brain learns and produces language.

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    51 mins
  • Making connections: Jerome Feldman
    Oct 29 2026

    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 features Jerome Feldman, who initially pursued symbolic approaches to understanding the mind but ended up somewhere quite different, exploring how artificial neural networks might capture aspects of language.

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    26 mins
  • Soaring: John Laird
    Oct 22 2026

    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 John Laird. Laird’s name is strongly associated with the cognitive architecture he helped to develop, SOAR, which in many ways was one of the most complete efforts at creating what Allen Newell called a “unified theory of cognition.”

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    38 mins
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