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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. 

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)
Jun
CEU Budapest

Cancelled - Departmental Colloquium: Amanda Seed (University of St Andrews)

Amanda Seed
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Jun
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: Old wine in new skins: Novel perspectives on cognitive control development

Nikolaus Steinbeis
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101