„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, 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.
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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
Die Mikrophänomenologie zwischenleiblicher Synergiepraktiken
Period: March 2020 - March 2023
Principal investigators: Mag. Dr. Michael Kimmel
Funding program: FWF - Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung
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
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
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)
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
Publications
Peschl, F-M., & Zuna-Kratky, G. (2012). Museum der Möglichkeiten: Round-Table. univie - Alumni Magazin der Universität Wien, (03/2012). issuu.com/univie/docs/107215_univie_3-12_screen_ohne-datum
Valuch, C., & Ansorge, U. (2012). Previously fixated visual features improve scene recognition. Perception, 41, 124-124.
Ansorge, U., Valuch, C., & König, P. (2012). Priming of visual attention by continuity editing in dynamic visual scenes.. Poster session presented at Opening conference of the ZiF research group on Competition and Priority Control in Mind & Brain: New Perspectives from Task-Driven Vision 2012., Bielefeld, Germany.
Peschl, F-M., & Fundneider, T. (2012). Raum als Denkzeug: Kognitive und eipstemologische Grundlagen der Wissensgenerierung und Innovation durch Denken mit dem Raum. In T. Schmitz, & H. Groninger (Eds.), Werkzeug - Denkzeug: Manuelle Intelligenz und Transmedialität kreativer Prozesse (pp. 311-336). Transcript Verlag. d-nb.info/1020635681
Peschl, F-M., & Fundneider, T. (2012). Räume bilden Wissen: Kognitive und epistemologische Grundlagen der Ermöglichung von Wissensgenerierung in Enabling Spaces. In H. Schröteler- von Brandt, T. Coelen, A. Zeising, & A. Ziesche (Eds.), Raum für Bildung: Ästhetik und Architektur von Lern- und Lebensorten (pp. 73-81). Transcript Verlag. d-nb.info/1022861603
Peschl, F-M., & Fundneider, T. (2012). Spaces enabling game-changing and sustaining innovations: Why space matters for knowledge creation and innovation. Journal of Organisational Transformation & Social Change (OTSC), 9(1), 41-61.
Peschl, F-M., & Fundneider, T. (Accepted/In press). The creative settlement - enabling an eco-system for thriving innovations and social systems. In EABIS 11th Annual Colloquium on Strategic Innovation for Sustainability EABIS. www.eabis.org/events/annual-colloquium/2012-colloquium.html
Leder, H., Gerger, G., & Brieber, D. (2012). This is disgusting! Can art experts really appreciate non-beautiful modern art? In 22nd Biennal congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 458-459). National Taiwan Normal University-Taipei.
Kaisler, R. E., & Güntürkün, O. (2012). Tiere und Kognition. uni:view. medienportal.univie.ac.at/uniview/veranstaltungen/detailansicht/artikel/2nd-annual-lorenz-lecture-tiere-und-kognition/
Heise, N., Valuch, C., Pflüger, L., Ansorge, U., Wallner, B., & Huber, L. (2012). Towards an understanding of the universal principles of cognition in men and animals. Poster session presented at 21. Biennal Conference on Human Ethology, Wien, Austria.