• https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/379/1895
• Theme issue in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
• Co-compiled and co-edited by Speaker Helmut Leder

• https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/senses-cognition-and-ritual-experience-in-the-roman-world/3295267F2971057A8BA81455F04E3995
• Cambridge University Press
• Co-edited by Blanka Misic

• doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103175
• Health & Place
• Co-author: Mat White

• doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07080-1
• Nature
• Co-author: Deputy Speaker Tecumseh Fitch

• doi.org/10.1177/27538699241238049
• Possibility Studies & Society
• Author: Management Board Member Markus Peschl

• doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06444-7
• Communications Biology
• Co-author: Management Board Member Narly Golestani

• doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116845
• Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Co-authors: Jozsef Arato and Mat White

• doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2024.149109
• Brain Research
• Co-author: Management Board Member Narly Golestani

• doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100215
• Wellbeing, Space and Society
• Co-authors: Jan Mikuni, Margot Dehove, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, and Speaker Helmut Leder

• doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304285
• PLOS One
• Co-authors: Blanca Spee, Speaker Helmut Leder, Jan Mikuni, Frank Scharnowski, and Management Board Member Matthew Pelowski

• https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1409086
• Frontiers in Psychology
• Co-authors: Margot Dehove, Jan Mikuni, Speaker Helmut Leder, and Elisabeth Oberzaucher

• doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00166
• Open Mind - Discoveries in Cognitive Science
• Co-Author: Seed Grant Awardee Tibor Tauzin

Gertrud Pleskot Award, awarded by the Faculty of Life Sciences

Gustav Theodor Fechner Award, awarded for Outstanding Contributions to Empirical Aesthetics by the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA)

Bank Austria Annerkennungspreis for PhD Project

Highly Cited Researcher 2024, awarded annually by Clarivate

We continued our well-established Brownbag Sessions in 2024, providing an environment that allows for informal discussion among peers and a glimpse into current and future research ideas and projects

1. Isabella Anderson-Wagner
2. Blanka Misic
3. Stefan Schulreich
4. Barbara Klump
5. Thomas Wolf

The next Brownbag Session will be held by Theresa Matzinger on 22 January 2025 (11:30, Seminarraum 19 in Kolingasse 14-16). Sign up here: https://cogsci.univie.ac.at/brownbag

On March 4 and 5, 36 of the Vienna CogSciHub's Network Associates - representing eight organizational units of the University, including six faculties - gathered for the 2024 Retreat of the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub.

The first day concluded with Sophie Scott's keynote on Neuroscience of Laughter in front of 75 guests.

Read the full recap here: https://cogsci.univie.ac.at/activities/retreats/2024-retreat/

Science Communication: Pint of Science

Maximilian Kathofer and Jan Mikuni presented their research at the 2024 edition of "Pint of Science".

Maximilian Kathofer spoke about the potential of ketamine to enhance information integration in the brain. Maximilian is a PhD student in the project "Unraveling the Aesthetic Mind in Anhedonia", PI: Julia Crone.

Jan Mikuni spoke about the impact of public art on our well-being in cities. Jan is a PostDoc in empirical visual aesthetics in the WWTF project Urban Intervention with Art in Public Space (PIs: Helmut Leder, Elisabeth Oberzaucher).

First Meeting of the Vienna Network of Music and Cogntion Research (ViNoMaRe)

Anja-X. Cui, Felix Haiduk, and Thomas Wolf - in cooperation with the Vienna CogSciHub - organized a first meeting to bring together researchers in music and cognition across Vienna and beyond.

We look forward to follow-up meetings and are happy to support such efforts.

If you would like to organize a meeting that could  fits the profile of the Vienna CogSciHub, don't hesitate to contact us!

MEi:CogSci Conference 2024

The Vienna CogSciHub once again supported the MEi:CogSci Conference Alumni Panel: A great opportunity to bring together different generations of cognitive science students and researchers across the partner universities.

Proceedings: journals.phl.univie.ac.at/meicogsci/issue/view/17 

The Middle European interdisciplinary master’s programme in Cognitive Science (MEi:CogSci) is a joint master’s programme offered by the Comenius University in Bratislava, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, University of Ljubljana, and University of Vienna & Medical University of Vienna.

Temenuzhka Dimova, PI of the FWF ESPRIT project "Following the Festaiuolo", presented first results in an interview with Gebärdenwelt.tv.

Holiday Event 2024: Ice-Stock Sport @ MQ

On December 2, we got together at Museumsquartier for some "Eisstockschießen" and then went on to have food & drinks at MQ Kantine.