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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
Dima Amso

Departmental Colloquium: Infant learning and memory systems and impact on attention orienting

Dima Amso (Columbia University)
May
Melissa Kibbe

Departmental Colloquium: Computations underlying "arithmetic" over non-symbolic representations of quantity

Melissa Kibbe (Boston University)
May
Emily Liquin

Departmental Colloquium: How curiosity guides us towards good explanations

Emily Liquin (NYU)
Apr
Tobias Gerstenberg

Departmental Colloquium - Going beyond the here and now: Counterfactual simulation in human cognition

Tobias Gerstenberg (Stanford University)
Apr
Julia Leonard

Departmental Colloquium: Social influences on children’s persistence

Julia Leonard (Yale University)
Mar
Limor Raviv

Departmental Colloquium - Linking Language acquisition, language evolution, and language diversity: How social and cognitive pressures shape learning and communication

Limor Raviv (MPI Nijmegen, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Mar
Baumard and Dubourg

Departmental Colloquium: What fictions do people like at different ages? Predictions from evolutionary developmental psychology

Nicolas Baumard and Edgar Dubourg (École Normale Supérieure)
Feb
Nadja Althaus

Departmental Colloquium: Words as cues to categorisation in infancy

Nadja Althaus (School of Psychology, University of East Anglia)
Jan
Tecumseh Fitch

Departmental Colloquium - Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness

Tecumseh Fitch (Dept of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna)
Nov
Ori Friedman

Departmental Colloquium: Functions of Ownership

Ori Friedman (University of Waterloo)
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
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
Chaz Firestone

Departmental Colloquium: Seeing “How”

Chaz Firestone (Johns Hopkins)
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)