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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. 

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

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
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
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
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
Jun
CEU Budapest

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

Amanda Seed
Budapest Site | 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 Site | Oktober 6 u. 7 | 101
May
CEU Department of Cognitve Science Defense

PhD Defense of Rubena Shamsudheen

Rubeena Shamsudheen
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | Auditorium B
Apr
CEU Budapest

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

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

PhD defense of Gabor Brody

Gabor Brody
Budapest Site | Nador u. 15 | 103 or Auditorium B