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
The lecture is open to students from all disciplines!
Preliminary programme to be finalized by end of September
Lecture Series Program
| Date | Lecturer (Affiliation) | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| October | ||
| 07.10. | 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" | |
| 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 | TBA | |
| 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 (Institute for Information Systems and New Media, Vienna University of Economics and Business & Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna) | 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 and 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 |
Jaqueline STARK (NGO Committee on Ageing and International Federation on Ageing (IFA)) | Neurolinguistics and Aphasia | |
| 21.01. | 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