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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
Nicolo Cesana-Arlotti

Departmental Colloquium - Foundations of logical thought in human infants

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

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

Paul Smaldino (UC Merced)
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
Apr
CEU Vienna

Departmental Colloquium: Richard Moore (University of Warwick)

Richard Moore
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002
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
Ulf Liszkowski

Departmental Colloquium: Ontogeny of human communication and social cognition

Ulf Liszkowski (University of Hamburg)
Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002 Tiered
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
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
Jul
Naomi Havron

Departmental Colloquium: Prediction as a mechanism supporting language learning

Naomi Havron (University of Haifa)
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | 101 Quantum
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
Mar
CEU Vienna

Understanding social motivation: a neuro-pharmacological and clinical account

Giorgia Silani
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
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
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