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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
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)
Sep
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: The cumulative cultural evolution of prehistoric symbolic artifacts

Kristian Tylén (Aarhus University )
Sep
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: Understanding Institutions

Yarrow Dunham (Yale University)
Jun
CEU Budapest

Cancelled - Departmental Colloquium: Amanda Seed (University of St Andrews)

Amanda Seed
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Jun
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: Old wine in new skins: Novel perspectives on cognitive control development

Nikolaus Steinbeis
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
May
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: The online and offline influences of action on perception

Clare Presse (Birkbeck)
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
May
CEU Department of Cognitve Science Colloquium

The evolution of human social status: Testing models of prestige and dominance

Alex Mesoudi (University of Exeter)
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
May
CEU Department of Cognitve Science Defense

PhD Defense of Rubena Shamsudheen

Rubeena Shamsudheen
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium B
May
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: Psychological foundations of redistribution: Sharing, moral pessimism, and human nature in adversity

Daniel Nettle
Apr
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: The Interface Transparency Thesis (ITT): Word Meanings And Visual Cognition

Justin Halberda
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Apr
Defense

PhD defense of Gabor Brody

Gabor Brody
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15 | 103 or Auditorium B
Apr
CEU Department of Cognitve Science Defense

PhD Defense of Sara Jellinek

Sara Jellinek
Budapest Campus | Nador u. 15 | Audi B
Apr
CEU Department of Cognitve Science Colloquium

Departmental Colloquium: Johan Wagemans

Johan Wagemans (KU Leuven)
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Apr
CEU Department of Cognitve Science Colloquium

Manipulation by Strategic Expression of Uncertainty

Bahador Bahrani (Munich Center for Neuroscience)
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Mar
Jonathan Pillow - Neuroscience

POSTPONED! - Inferring the dynamics of learning from sensory decision-making behavior

Jonathan Pillow, Princeton
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Mar
CEU Budapest

When the Window Cracks – Transparency and the Loss of Self in Depersonalisation and Meditation

Prof. Dr Anna Ciaunica
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Feb
Departmental Colloquium

Processing symbolic numbers with the Discrete Semantic System - a talk by Attila Krajcsi (ELTE, Hungary)

Attila Krajcsi
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Feb
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: Primate roots of syntax

Klaus Zuberbühler
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Feb
Budapest campus

Timing in musical joint action, and the role of bodily coordination dynamics

Pieter-Jan Maes
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
Jan
CEU Vienna Campus

20th SOMICS Synergy Week

Vienna Campus | Quellenstrasse 51
Jan
CEU Budapest

Departmental Colloquium: A Novel Framework for the Neural Organization of Action and Object Knowledge

Moritz Wurm
Budapest Campus | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101