Neuroscience within Cognitive Science "From Mind to Brain"
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, 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.
Neuroscience
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.
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
Valuch, C., & Ansorge, U. (2015). The influence of color during continuity cuts in edited movies: an eye-tracking study. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 74(22), 10161-10176. doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2806-z
Weichselbaum, H., Huber-Huber, C., & Ansorge, U. (2015). Attention is attention: Temporal stability of attention capture effects. Poster session presented at 19th meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), Paphos, Cyprus.
Boddy, J., & Wijntjes, M. W. A. (2015). Expression beyond representation: An experimental study of the expressive contribution of lines in painting. Poster session presented at visual science of art conference (VSAC 2015), Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Fedorova, M., & Reiterer, S. M. (2015). "Viennese Language Cafés” – an exploratory case study into a new phenomenon. Poster session presented at Middle European Cognitive Science Conference 2015 (MeiCogsci Conference) , Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Boddy, J. (2015). « Soon the meaning of lines will be revealed to us » an experimental study of the expressive contribution of lines in painting. Poster session presented at 4th Annual Lecture in Cognitive Science, Vienna, Austria.
Brinkmann, H., & Thalwitzer, M. T. (2015). Rooms of Perception: The Influence of Spatial Context on Perception of Art. Poster session presented at 4th Annual Lecture in Cognitive Science, Vienna, Austria.
Brinkmann, H. (Editorial Journalist), & Commare, L. (Editorial Journalist). (2015). Blick_folgen: Zur Visualisierung von Augenbewegungen bei der Kunstbetrachtung. Web publication
Brieber, D., Nadal-Roberts, M., & Leder, H. (2015). In the white cube: Museum context enhances the valuation and memory of art. Acta Psychologica, 154, 36-42. doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2014.11.004
Lamm, C., & Majdandzic, J. (2015). The role of shared neural activations, mirror neurons, and morality in empathy--a critical comment. Neuroscience Research, 90, 15-24. doi.org/10.1016/j.neures.2014.10.008
Weichselbaum, H., & Schöberl, T. (2015). Consciousness and Cognitive Control – Investigating Bottom-up and Topdown Attentional Selection in Vision. Poster session presented at Middle European Cognitive Science Conference 2015 (MeiCogsci Conference) , Ljubljana, Slovenia.