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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. 

Dec
Jonathan Kominsky portrait

POSTPONED: Departmental Colloquium: Children's and adults' causal judgments consider what should have happened

Jonathan Kominsky (Harvard University)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium
Nov
Ori Friedman

Departmental Colloquium: Functions of Ownership

Ori Friedman (University of Waterloo)
Nov
Greg Bryant

POSTPONED: Open Seminar: Greg Bryant (UCLA) - 'The cultural evolution of music'

Greg Bryant (UCLA)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D109
Nov
Greg Bryant

Departmental Colloquium: Greg Bryant (UCLA) - 'The evolution of laughter and verbal play'

Greg Bryant (UCLA)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Oct
CEU Campus QS

Departmental Colloquium: The emergence and developmental trajectory of active and ecological learning

Azzurra Ruggeri (Max Planck Institute Berlin)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Oct
Hanoch

Departmental Colloquium: Logic and the Boundaries of Animal Mentality - Hanoch Ben-Yami

Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU)
Oct
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Logic and the boundaries of animal mentality

Hanoch Ben-Yami
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | Auditorium and ONLINE
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)