Temasek Laboratories
Cognitive Science Programme
Programme Overview
Cognitive Science is an emerging interdisciplinary field that studies mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology (see the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy).
The Cognitive Science Programme at Temasek Laboratories@NUS aims to promote the development of a cognitive science community at NUS and beyond. This will hopefully raise awareness of cognitive science as a field and ultimately lead to inter-disciplinary collaboration among the cognitive sciences.
We are currently planning an international conference for 2010 to create awareness in the larger community and among local policy makers about the study of the mind and the cognitive sciences. We also welcome student enquiries on internship opportunity in cognitive science projects.
Mr ANG, Cher Wee, Associate Scientist, email: tslacw@nus.edu.sg
Mr REBSAMEN, Brice, Associate Scientist, email: tslrb@nus.edu.sg
Mr LEONG, Hoe Wai, Associate Scientist, email: tsllhw@nus.edu.sg
Mr TAN, Kian Moh Terence, Associate Scientist, email: tsltkmt@nus.edu.sg
Mr ZHANG, Zhibin, Associate Scientist, email: tslzzb@nus.edu.sg
The Cognitive Science Programme at Temasek Laboratories@NUS aims to promote the development of a cognitive science community at NUS and beyond. This will hopefully raise awareness of cognitive science as a field and ultimately lead to inter-disciplinary collaboration among the cognitive sciences.
What do we do?
Cognitive Science Programme at Temasek Laboratories@NUS runs a programme of research at the intersection of the cognitive, neuro- and computational sciences for defence applications in collaboration with partners in the universities, research institutes and industry.Key Research Thrusts
Cognitive Computing - "Towards Cognitive Systems"
Cognitive Architecture
Research issues:
Real-World Knowledge Representation
Research issues:
Other related research issues
- Massively parallel processing
- Multi-level, distributed representations
- Meta-level cognition
Research issues:
- How to build more robust computing architectures from biological/human inspiration?
- How to create computational creativity?
Real-World Knowledge Representation
- Physics and other causal models
- Social norms
- Deep domain knowledge
Research issues:
- What knowledge to represent and how?
- What is the minimal set of representations that are needed?
- How can the knowledge be represented so that it can be reusable by different generic and domain-specific cognitive systems, potentially including software agents and robots?
- How to automatically populate the knowledge base?
Other related research issues
- Learning from experience
- Natural Interaction
Enhancing Human Cognitive Performance - "Understanding and Exploiting the Nervous System to Enhance Human Cognitive Performance"
Decision Making
Research issues:
Neuro-Cognitive Augmentation
Research issues:
- Individual Decision Making in the Wild
- Team Collaboration and Decision Making
Research issues:
- What are the cognitive processes underlying human decision making?
- How to enhance the speed and quality of decision making?
- What are the effects of stress and emotions?
Neuro-Cognitive Augmentation
- Neuroscience applications for cognitive augmentation
- Neurosensors and Neuro-modulation devices
Research issues:
- How to overcome intrinsic human cognitive limitations?
Capacity, Pre-potent habits, Effects of emotions and affect
- How to exploit the human nervous system for enhanced performance?
Cognitive Modelling - "Synthetic Humans and Communities"
Modelling Individual expertise
Modelling Communities
In order to seed the development of an inter-disciplinary cognitive science community locally, we organize a TL Cognitive Science Seminar Series to showcase work in the cognitive sciences in order to promote inter-disciplinary understanding and contact among cognitive scientists. We also run workshops and tutorials from time to time on methodologies and tools commonly used by cognitive scientists. If you wish to be informed of these activities, you may email us.- Implicit and Explicit knowledge and expertise
- Cognitive Styles
Modelling Communities
- Population profiling
- Social Networks
- Social Cultural Modelling
We are currently planning an international conference for 2010 to create awareness in the larger community and among local policy makers about the study of the mind and the cognitive sciences. We also welcome student enquiries on internship opportunity in cognitive science projects.
Project Highlights
- Concept generation in maritime security using conceptual blending
- Cognitive state detection
- Real world knowledge representation
- Understanding and anticipating adversarial intent
Group Head
Dr KWOK, Fook Kay Kenneth, Principal Research Scientist, email: tslkfkk@nus.edu.sgTechnical Staff
Dr HO, Seng Beng, Senior Research Scientist, email: tslhsb@nus.edu.sgMr ANG, Cher Wee, Associate Scientist, email: tslacw@nus.edu.sg
Mr REBSAMEN, Brice, Associate Scientist, email: tslrb@nus.edu.sg
Mr LEONG, Hoe Wai, Associate Scientist, email: tsllhw@nus.edu.sg
Mr TAN, Kian Moh Terence, Associate Scientist, email: tsltkmt@nus.edu.sg
Mr ZHANG, Zhibin, Associate Scientist, email: tslzzb@nus.edu.sg
Adjunct Staff
Dr SOH, Boon Kee, Adjunct Research Scientist, email: tslsbk@nus.edu.sg