„From Mind to Brain“: Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience

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, HumanitiesPhilosophy, 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. 

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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.

FWF

Following the Festaiuolo. How Do Deictic Gestures in Painting Influence the Beholder's Gaze?

Period: December 2022 - December 2025

Principal investigators: Dr. Temenuzhka Dimova; Univ.-Prof. Raphael Rosenberg

Funding program: FWF ESPRIT

Involved Fields: Art History, Gesture Studies, Eye tracking, Deaf Studies, Cognitive Science

 

 

WWTF

A novel approach to investigate multi-modal attractiveness in humans and animals

Period: June 2019 - May 2022

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dott. Leonida Fusani, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Leder

Funding program: WWTF - Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds

Externe Kooperationspartner: Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien

Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Empirical Aesthetics, Cognitive Biology

Project Website: Comparative Aesthetics

FWF

Die Rolle des Opiatsystems bei Empathie für Schmerz

Period: May 2019 - May 2022

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claus Lamm, Mag.Dr. Markus Rütgen, Isabella Wagner, Georgia Silani 

Funding program: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Neuropsychopharmacology

FWF

Die Mikrophänomenologie zwischenleiblicher Synergiepraktiken

Period: March 2020 - March 2023

Principal investigators: Mag. Dr. Michael Kimmel

Funding program: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung

Donau-Universität Krems, FFG, Strategy Sprints

Ein Framework der Organisationalen Improvisation

Period: September 2019 - September 2022

Principal investigators: A.o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Markus Peschl

Funding program: Donau-Universität Krems, FFG, Strategy Sprints

WWTF

Convergent evolution of the social brain? A comparative dog-human fMRI approach | EVOSOCBRAIN

Period: October 2019 - September 2022

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Claus Lamm, Mag. Dr. Ludwig Huber, DI Dr. Christian Windischberger

Funding program: WWTF

External partners: Veterinärmedizinische Universität, Medizinische Universität Wien

Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Cognitive Biology, Neuroscience

WWTF

A novel approach to investigate multi-modal attractiveness in humans and animals

Period: June 2019 - May 2022

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Leonida Fusani, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Helmut Leder

Funding program: Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (WWTF)

ÖAW

AI-supported adaptive serious gaming

Period: October 2017 - September 2020

Principal investigators: DI Barbara Göbl, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Slunecko, 

Funding program: ÖAW DOC Team

Involved fields: Cultural anthropology, Cognitive science

ÖAW

Difficulty and strategies in emotion regulation

Period: October 2017 - September 2020

Principal investigators: Dayana Hristova, M.Sc., Dr. Michael Kimmel, Univ.-Prof. Thomas Slunecko, 

Funding program: ÖAW DOC Team

Involved fields: Cultural anthropology, Cognitive science

WWTF

Universal aesthetics of lines and colors? Effects of culture, expertise and habituation

Period: July 2016 - June 2019

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Raphael Rosenberg, Univ.-Prof. Helmut Leder

Funding program: WWTF "Cognition" 2015

Involved fields: Art History, Psychology

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FWF

Embodied Creativity in Dyadic Interaction

Period: June 2015 - (preliminary December 2017) prolonged and running

Principal investigator(s): Dr. Michael Kimmel

Funding program: FWF Stand-alone Projects

Involved fields: Cognitive Ethnography (Empirical Phenomenology, Joint Action/Interaction, Embodied Cognition)

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FFG

Innovation Lens

Period: October 2014 - (preliminary October 2016) prolonged and running

Principal investigator(s): A.o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Markus Peschl

Funding program: FFG COIN

Involved fields: 

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FWF

The Cultural Eye / The Gendered Eye

Period: September 2013 - (preliminary Mai 2017) pro-longed and running

Principal investigator(s): Univ.-Prof. Raphael Rosenberg

Funding program: FWF Stand-alone Projects

Involved fields: Art History, Psychology

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Publications


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Richard, A., Pelowski, M., & Spee, B. T. M. (Eds.) (2022). Art and Neurological Disorders: Illuminating the Intersection of Creativity and the Changing Brain. (1 ed.) Springer International Publishing. Current Clinical Neurology

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