MEi:CogSci Lecture Series 2025

Cognitive Science Research in Vienna

 
Tuesdays, 18:30-20:30,
Hörsaal 34, Main Building of the University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien

(floor plan main building)

The lecture is open to students from all disciplines!

Lecture Series Program

DateLecturer (Affiliation)Topic
October
07.10.

Peter HOCHENAUER

(Department of Philosophy,
University of Vienna)

What Does It Mean to Become
a Cognitive Scientist?

Peter HOCHENAUER

(Department of Philosophy,
Uni­versity of Vienna)

Interdisciplinarity: Q & A

14.10.

Isabella SARTO-JACKSON 

(Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution
and Cognition Research)

Epistemogenesis: Knowledge Accumulation
in Biological Systems

Peter STEIGLECHNER

(Complexity Science Hub)

Distorted Belief Systems:
When We Don't Even Agree to Disagree

21.10.

Stefanie HÖHL

(Department of Developmental
and Educational Psychology,
University of Vienna)

Getting Attuned to Others:
Interpersonal Synchrony and Coordination
in Human Development

Agnes KOVACS

(Department of Cognitive Science,
Central European University

How Do Young Children Form and Revise
First-Person Beliefs & Beliefs Attributed to Others?

28.10.

Tilmann KLUGE

(Austrian Institute of Technology)

Introduction to EEG Data Analysis

Moritz GROSSE-WENTRUP

(Research Group Neuroinformatics,
Faculty of Computer Science,
University of Vienna)

Brain-Artificial Intelligence (BAI) Interfaces

November

04.11.

Tibor TAUZIN

(Department of Linguistics,
University of Vienna)

Infants’ Sensitivity to and Inferences
about Communicative Information Transfer

Soheil HUMAN

(Vienna Cognitive Science Hub,
and Vienna University of Economics & Business)

The Cognitive Science of Human Needs
and De Facto Legalized Child Abuse:
Family and Digital Laws in Practice

11.11.

Torsten MÖLLER

(Research Group Visualization and Data Analysis,
University of Vienna)

Towards Measuring Understanding of Data Charts

Paolo PETTA

(Austrian Research Institute
for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI))

Affect – A Situated Agents Perspective

18.11.

Christian WINDISCHBERGER 

(MR Centre of Excellence,
Medical University of Vienna)

Brain Mapping Using Functional
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Ronald SLADKY

(Department of Basic Psychological Research
and Research Methods,
University of Vienna)

Functional MRI of the Amygdala in Fear and Trust

25.11.

Günter KNOBLICH

(Department of Cognitive Science,
Central European University)

Current Topics in Joint Action Research

Susanne REITERER

(Department of Linguistics,
University of Vienna)

The Phonaesthetics of Language Learning:
Trying to Uncover the Beauty of Language
Sound Psycholinguistically

December
02.12.

Jozsef FISER

(Department of Cognitive Science,
Central European University)

Vision and Learning in the Probabilistic Brain

Ulrich ANSORGE

(Department of Cognition, Emotion,
and Methods in Psychology,
University of Vienna)

Eye-Tracking

09.12.

Thomas BUGNYAR

(Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology,
University of Vienna)

Birdbrains? Theory of Mind in Ravens

Raphael ROSENBERG

(Department of Art History,
University of Vienna)

Cognitive Research in Art History

16.12.

Florian KRAGULJ

(Knowledge Management Group,
Vienna University of Economics & Business)

Knowledge Management and
Organizational Learning

Thomas EDER

(Department of German Studies,
University of Vienna)

Mental Imagery, Schemas, Literary Reading

January
13.01.

Georg LANGS

(Computational Imaging Research Lab,
Department of Biomedical Imaging
and Image-guided Therapy,
Medical University of Vienna)

Machine Learning in NeuroImaging
– Capturing the Changing Brain Connectome

Jacqueline STARK

(NGO Committee on Ageing and
International Federation on Ageing (IFA))

Neurolinguistics and Aphasia

20.01.

Robert TRAPPL

(Austrian Research Institute
for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
& Center for Brain Research,
Medical University of Vienna)

Love, Happiness, and a Robot Consciousness

 

 

27.01.First exam date

 

 

In cooperation with: Vienna Cognitive Science Hub