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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. 

May
Paul Smaldino

Departmental Colloquium: Dynamics of Covert Signaling: Modeling the Emergence and Extinction of Identity Signals

Paul Smaldino (UC Merced)
Jan
Ulf Liszkowski

Departmental Colloquium: Ontogeny of human communication and social cognition

Ulf Liszkowski (University of Hamburg)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002 Tiered
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
Sep
Ira Noveck

Departmental Colloquium: Revealing the role of intentions through experimental pragmatics - Ira Noveck (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS & Université de Paris-Cité)

Ira Noveck (Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, CNRS & Université de Paris-Cité)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D002
Sep
Jesse Snedeker

Departmental Colloquium: Top-down prediction in language comprehension: a handful of facts and a mystery - Jesse Snedeker (Harvard)

Jesse Snedeker
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D001
Jun
Austin Nichols

Departmental Colloquium: Who Cares What Other People (and You) Think of You? I Do and So Should You - Austin Lee Nichols (CEU)

Austin Lee Nichols (CEU)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D002 and on Zoom
Jun
Andrei Cimpian

Departmental Colloquium: The Development of Political Thought - Andrei Cimpian (NYU)

Andrei Cimpian (NYU)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D002 and on Zoom
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)
Feb
Heike Wiese

Communicative situations as a basis for linguistic systems

Prof. Dr. Heike Wiese (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
ONLINE EVENT
Jan
Jonathan Kominsky

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

Jonathan Kominsky (Harvard University)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | QS D002 and on Zoom
Jan
Tecumseh Fitch

Departmental Colloquium - Evolutionary Functions of Consciousness

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