„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
Göbl, B., Hristova, D., Jovicic, S., Slunecko, T., Chevron, M-F., & Hlavacs, H. (2018). Towards a More Reflective Social Media Use Through Serious Games and Co-design. In Serious Games: 4th Joint International Conference, JCSG 2018, Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-8, 2018, Proceedings (pp. 229-234). Springer International Publishing AG . Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Speidel, K-P. (2018). What narrative is: Reconsidering definitions based on experiments with pictorial narrative. An essay in descriptive narratology. Frontiers of Narrative Studies, 4(S1), 76-104.
Speidel, K-P. (2018). Wie Wunden wirken: Verletzung zwischen Spur und Allegorie. In J. Schwanberg (Ed.), Zeig mir deine Wunde Dom Museum Wien.
Peschl, F-M. (2017). Wer Bedürfnisse generiert, überlebt. Die Presse. karrierenews.diepresse.com/home/karrieretrends/5323011/Wer-Beduerfnisse-generiert-ueberlebt
Marin, M., Schober, R., Gingras, B., & Leder, H. (2017). Misattribution of musical arousal increases sexual attraction towards opposite-sex faces in females. PLoS ONE, 12(9), [e0183531]. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183531
Specker, E., Tinio, P. P. L., & van Elk, M. (2017). Do You See What I See? An Investigation of the Aesthetic Experience in the Laboratory and Museum. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(3), 265-275. doi.org/10.1037/aca0000107
Kaisler, R. E., & Leder, H. (2017). Combined Effects of Gaze and Orientation of Faces on Person Judgments in Social Situations. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, [259]. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00259
Valuch, C., König, P., & Ansorge, U. (2017). Memory-guided attention during active viewing of edited dynamic scenes. Journal of Vision, 17(1), 12. doi.org/10.1167/17.1.12
Peschl, F-M., & Fundneider, T. (2017). Future-oriented innovation: How affordances and potentials can teach us how to learn from the future as it emerges. In M. Burgin, & W. Hofkirchner (Eds.), The future information society : social and technological problems ; [Based on the Summit of the International Society for Information Studies on "The Information Society at the Crossroads : Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information" held in Vienna in June 2015 ] (pp. 223-240). World Scientific Publishing. World Scientific Series in Information Studies Vol. 8
Peschl, F-M., & Fundneider, T. (2017). How spaces can support knowledge and innovation work. In E. Tomé, G. Neumann, & B. Knežević (Eds.), Proceedings of TAKE 2017: Theory and Applications in the Knowledge Economy Conference (pp. 21-24). University of Zagreb. www.take-conference.com/TAKEproceedings/TAKE2017proceedings.pdf