Research Areas
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Science is an interdisciplinary research field to study the mind, intelligence and the brain.
Within the hexagon of the main research fields Psychology, Neuroscience, Linguistics, Humanities, Philosophy, Education, Anthropology, Artificial Intelligence and Economics, research in Cognitive Science deepens the understanding from mind to brain, from behaviour to neurophysiological phenomena, from culture, art and social thinking to their brain based underpinnings.
Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience combines different scientific research areas in which the structure and functioning of nervous systems are examined.
Due to the variety of methods used, neuroscientific research is conducted by scientists from many different disciplines such as physiology, psychology, medicine, biology, computer science, or mathematics together with related scientific fields such as information technology or robotics.
Current Research Projects
We are the host institution to many research projects funded by the University of Vienna and (inter-)national third-party funding agencies.
Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien
A2I - Assist to Include
Start: March 2023
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Schlund
Co-Principal investigators: Dipl.-Ing. David Kostolani, BSc; Jozsef Arato, BSc MSc PhD; Karolina Gasparovski
Funding agency: Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte für Wien
External partners: Vienna University of Technology, Wien Work integrative Betriebe und AusbildungsgmbH
Horizon Europe
RESONATE: Building individual and community RESilience thOugh NATurE-based therapies
Start: June 2023
Principal investigator: Mathew White, BSc MSc PhD
Funding agency: Horizon Europe
FWF
Following the Festaiuolo. How Do Deictic Gestures in Painting Influence the Beholder's Gaze?
Start: December 2022
Principal investigator: Dr. Temenuzhka Dimova
Funding agency: FWF - Austrian Science Fund
Involved Fields: Art History, Gesture Studies, Eye tracking, Deaf Studies, Cognitive Science
Horizon Europe
GOLIAT: 5G expOsure, causaL effects, and rIsk perception through citizen engAgemenT
Start: June 2022
Principal investigator: Mathew White, BSc MSc PhD
Funding agency: Horizon Europe
FWF
Unlocking the Muse: Artistic Creativity and Parkinson's Disease
Start: June 2022
Principal investigator: Ass.-Prof. Matthew Pelowski, PhD
Co-Principal investigators: Mag. Dr. Julia Crone; Mag. Dr. Blanca Spee, BSc MSc
Funding agency: FWF - Austrian Science Fund
WWTF
Urban intervention with art in public space - cognitive attraction, resilience, orsimply positive emotions?
Start: October 2021
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Helmut Leder
Co-Principal investigator: Mag. Dr. Elisabeth Oberzaucher
Funding agency: WWTF - Vienna Science and Technology Fund
Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Anthropology
Project website: Urban Art & Green
Interdisciplinary Clusterprojekte UniVie & MedUni Vienna
UNRAVELING THE AESTHETIC MIND IN ANHEDONIA: Insights from pharmacological imaging of the human brain
Start: 2021
Principal investigators: Mag. Dr. Julia Crone; Univ.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med. Rupert Lanzenberger
Funding agency: University of Vienna, Medical University of Vienna
External partners: Medical University of Vienna
FWF
The micro-phenomenology of interpersonal synergy practices
Start: May 2020
Principal investigator: Mag. Dr. Michael Kimmel
Funding agency: FWF - Austrian Science Fund
WWTF
Convergent evolution of the social brain? A comparative dog-human fMRI approach | EVOSOCBRAIN
Start: October 2019
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Claus Lamm
Co-Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Ludwig Huber; Assoz. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christian Windischberger, Privatdoz.
Funding agency: WWTF - Vienna Science and Technology Fund
External partners: University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna
Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Cognitive Biology, Neuroscience
WWTF
A novel approach to investigate multi-modal attractiveness in humans and animals
Start: June 2019
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dott. Leonida Fusani, MPhil PhD
Co-Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Helmut Leder; Dr. Cliodhna Quigley, BSc MSc
Funding agency: WWTF - Vienna Science and Technology Fund
External partners: University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Empirical Aesthetics, Cognitive Biology
Project Website: Comparative Aesthetics
FWF
Unravelling the role of the opioid system in pain empathy
Start: May 2019
Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Claus Lamm
Funding agency: FWF - Austrian Science Fund
Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Neuropsychopharmacology