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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
Alexander Bor (CEU Democracy Institute)

Departmental Colloquium: The psychology of online political hostility

Alexander Bor (CEU Democracy Institute)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
Sep
Vjeran Keric

PhD Defense of Vjeran Keric

Vjeran Keric
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002
Sep
Andreas Wilke

Departmental Colloquium: The adaptivity of human search

Andreas Wilke (Clarkson University)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
Jul
Jesse Snedeker

Departmental Colloquium: Jesse Snedeker

Jesse Snedeker
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D002
Jun
Marcell Székely

PhD Defense of Marcell Szekely

Marcell Székely
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | 101
Jun
Denise de Ridder

Departmental Colloquium: Can gentle directions in the right way engage people with things that really matter?

Denise de Ridder (Utrecht University)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002 Tiered
Jun
Evan Edwards

Departmental Colloquium: Symbolic Belief in Social Cognition

Evan Westra (Purdue University)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002
Jun
Elisabeth Pacherie

Departmental Colloquium: Commitments and the Sense of Joint Agency

Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean Nicod)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002
Jun
Dóra Anna Fogd

PhD Defense of Dóra Anna Fogd

Dóra Anna Fogd
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D002
May
Nicolo Cesana-Arlotti

Departmental Colloquium - Foundations of logical thought in human infants

Nicolò Cesana-Arlotti (Yale University)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
May
Tomer Ullman

Departmental Colloquium: The physical basis of imagery and imagination

Tomer Ullmann (Harvard University)
May
Isabelle Dautriche

Departmental Colloquium: Elementary semantic abilities in non-human primates

Isabelle Dautriche (CNRS Marseille)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002 Tiered
May
Atsuko Tominaga

PhD Defense of Atsuko Tominaga

Atsuko Tominaga
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D002
May
Josh Rottman

Departmental Colloquium - Josh Rottman, Franklin & Marshall College

Josh Rottman
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | B511
Apr
CHRISTIANE VON STUTTERHEIM

Departmental Colloquium - Christiane von Stutterheim, University of Heidelberg

Christiane von Stutterheim
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Apr
CEU Vienna

Departmental Colloquium: Richard Moore (University of Warwick)

Richard Moore
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002
Apr
PhD Defense of Nima Mussavifard

PhD Defense of Nima Mussavifard

Nima Mussavifard
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D002
Mar
Sophie Bridgers

Departmental Colloquium: Loopholes: A window into goal communication and value alignment

Sophie Bridgers (MIT)
Mar
Mike Tomasello

Departmental Colloquium: Agency and Cognitive Development

Mike Tomasello (Duke University)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D-001
Feb
Keith and raven

Departmental Colloquium: Failed studies – Past, present and future

Keith Jensen (University of Manchester)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002
Jan
Jonathan Phillips

Departmental Colloquium: Knowledge without belief

Jonathan Phillips (Dartmouth College)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-001
Nov
Jutta Mueller

Departmental Colloquium: Auditory sequential learning across ontogeny and phylogeny: Evidence from behavioral, neurophysiological and modeling studies

Jutta L. Mueller (University of Vienna)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Nov
Rita Astuti

Departmental Colloquium: Oh Rita, what questions you ask! - Professor Rita Astuti (LSE)

Rita Astuti (LSE)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001 and Zoom
Nov
Mathias

Departmental Colloquium: Human cognition of geometric shapes, a window into the mental representation of abstract concepts - Mathias Sablé-Meyer

Mathias Sablé-Meyer
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001 tiered and on Zoom
Oct
Eva Wittenberg

Departmental Colloquium: Where would Waldo have been? Understanding counterfactual language understanding

Eva Wittenberg (CEU)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001 tiered and on Zoom