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Department of Cognitive Science

The Department of Cognitive Science is a thriving interdisciplinary department, which offers a PhD program with a comprehensive range of rigorous coursework and active research experience. It is a research-based training program that specializes in but is not limited to the study of the social and biological bases of cognition. 

Sep
CEU

The Cognitive Bases of Moral Diversity workshop

Christophe Heintz, György Gergely, Vlad Naumescu
Jul
Laurel Perkins

Departmental Colloquium: Linguistic and event representations in early verb learning

Laurel Perkins
Jun
Steven O. Roberts

Departmental Colloquium: Descriptive-to-prescriptive reasoning: An early emerging bias to maintain the status quo

Steven O. Roberts (Stanford University)
May
Departmental Colloquium by Bjoern Meder - Health and Medical University Potsdam

How do children understand verbal uncertainty terms? A developmental and computational perspective - a talk by Bjoern Meder (Health and Medical University Potsdam)

Bjoern Meder
May
Bahar Koymen

Departmental Colloquium: Young children’s reason-giving and meta-talk in collaborative decision making

Bahar Koymen (Manchester University)
Apr
CEU Budapest

Emotion and Creativity in Music for the Brain

Psyche Loui
Off-campus
Apr
Emma Cohen

Departmental Colloquium: Evolution, sociality and the psychobiology of exercise performance

Emma Cohen (University of Oxford)
Mar
Nick Charter - University of Warwick

Departmental Colloquium - Nick Charter (University of Warwick)

Nick Charter
Mar
CEU Budapest

Virtual bargaining: The hidden logic of joint action and communication

Nicholas Chater
Off-campus
Mar
Timothy Behrens - University of Oxford

Abstraction and inference in the prefrontal hippocampal circuitry. - A talk by Timothy Behrens (University of Oxford)

Tim Behrens
Mar
Bahador Bahrami - UCL and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Interpersonal alignment of shared beliefs: computational, behavioural and neural evidence by Bahador Bahrami (UCL and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Bahador Bahrami
Mar
Chaz Firestone

Departmental Colloquium: Seeing “How”

Chaz Firestone (Johns Hopkins)
Mar
CEU Budapest

Affiliative Interaction in Music and Speech

Ian Cross
Feb
Weiji Ma

The cognitive science of complex planning - Weiji Ma (New York University)

Weiji Ma - New York University
Feb
Stefanie Höhl

Departmental Colloquium: Neural synchrony in caregiver-child interactions

Stefanie Höhl (University of Vienna)
Feb
Peter Carruthers

Departmental Colloquium: Questions and model-free metacognition

Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland)
Feb
Tali Sharot

Departmental Colloquium: Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

Tali Sharot (University College of London)
Jan
Jonathan S. Phillips

Departmental Colloquium: Decomposing modal thought

Jonathan S. Phillips (Dartmouth University)
Jan
Budapest Campus

'The cognitive neuroscience of nonverbal social interaction' - talk by Antonia Hamilton (UCL)

Antonia Hamilton
Dec
Thomas Bugnyar

Departmental Colloquium: Testing social cognition in non-human animals: lessons from ravens

Thomas Bugnyar (Department of Behavioral & Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna)
Nov
Tecumseh Fitch

Departmental Colloquium: Dendrophilia and the Evolution of Language

Tecumseh Fitch (University of Vienna)
Nov
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: How Temptation Makes Us Moral

Christina Starmans (University of Toronto)
Nov
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: The Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Inquiring Minds

Amanda Seed (University of St Andrews)
Sep
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: The cumulative cultural evolution of prehistoric symbolic artifacts

Kristian Tylén (Aarhus University )
Sep
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: Understanding Institutions

Yarrow Dunham (Yale University)