MEi:CogSci Lecture Series 2024

Cognitive Science Research in Vienna

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

(Floor plans Main Building)

The lecture is open to students from all disciplines!

Lecture Series Program

DateLecturer (Affiliation)Topic
October
01.10.

Peter HOCHENAUER

(Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna)

What Does It Mean to Become a Cognitive Scientist?

Markus PESCHL

(Department of Philosophy, Uni­versity of Vienna)

Enabling Innovation: Cognition and Creativity as "Thinging" and "Learning from the Future"

08.10.

Tilmann KLUGE

(Austrian Institute of Technology)

Introduction to EEG Data Analysis

Soheil HUMAN

(Sustainable Computing Lab, Institute for Information Management and Control, Vienna University of Economics and Business & Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna)

[How] Can Cognitive Science Contribute to the Co-production of a Sustainable Human-Compatible Digital Transformation?

15.10.

Erno TEGLAS

(Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University)

Thinking About Possibilities: Investigations of the Developmental Origins of Modal Concepts

Stefanie HÖHL

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

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

22.10.

Christophe HEINTZ

(Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University)

Coordinating with Others: From Mutual Salience to Convention

Thomas WOLF

(Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University)

Current Topics in Joint Action Research

29.10.

Jozsef FISER

(Department of Cognitive Science, Central European University)

Vision and Learning in the Probabilistic Brain

 

November
05.11.

Hannah METZLER 

(Complexity Science Hub Vienna & Center for Medical Data Science at Medical University of Vienna)

Introduction to Computational Social Science

Isabella SARTO-JACKSON 

(Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research)

Epistemogenesis: Knowledge Accumulation in Biological Systems

12.11.

Paolo PETTA

(Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI))

Affect – A Situated Agents Perspective

Raphael ROSENBERG

(Department of Art History, University of Vienna)

Mobile Eye Tracking and Museum Research

19.11.

Christian WINDISCHBERGER 

(MR Centre of Excellence, Medical University of Vienna)

Brain Mapping Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Ronald SLADKY

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

Functional MRI of the Amygdala in Fear and Trust

26.11.

Jaqueline STARK

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

Neurolinguistics and Aphasia

Narly GOLESTANI

(Vienna Cognitive Science Hub & Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna)

Neuroscience of Language

December
03.12.

Torsten MÖLLER

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

Towards Measuring Understanding of Data Charts

Florian KRAGULJ

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

Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning

10.12.


Ulrich ANSORGE

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

Eye-Tracking

Tibor TAUZIN

(Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna

Sensitivity to Informativity in Turn-taking Communicative Exchanges in Human Infants and Dogs

January
07.01.

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

Robert TRAPPL

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

Love, Happiness, and a Robot Consciousness

14.01.

Thomas BUGNYAR

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

Birdbrains? Theory of Mind in Ravens

Moritz GROSSE-WENTRUP

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

Brain-Artificial Intelligence (BAI) Interfaces

 

21.01.

Katharina KORECKY-KRÖLL

(Department of German Studies, University of Vienna)

Morphology in the Mental Lexicon

Thomas EDER

(Department of German Studies, University of Vienna)

Mental Imagery, Schemas, Literary Reading

28.01.First exam date

 

 

In cooperation with: Vienna Cognitive Science Hub