Past Research Projects

The Vienna CogSciHub emerged from the former Research Platform Cogntive Science, in which many projects in the field of Cognitive Science were located. 

Funded by the European Commission

ERC FP7

Man4Gen: Manual Operation of 4th Generation Airliners

Period: September 2012 - December 2015

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Claus Lamm; Univ.-Prof. Dipl-Ing. Dr. Markus Peschl; Mag. Irene Stepniczka, MSc

Funding program: FP7 - Seventh Framework Programme of the European Union

Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Aviation

Funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

FFG

Ein Framework der Organisationalen Improvisation

Period: September 2019 to December 2022

Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Markus Peschl

Funding agency: FFG BRIDGE

External partners: Donau-Universität Krems, Roland Gareis Consulting GmbH, Beratergruppe Neuwaldegg Gesellschaft für Unternehmensberatung und Organisationsentwicklung Gesellschaft

FFG

LMK-MUSE: Modellbildungs- und simulationsgestützte Entscheidungsunterstützung in der Laste-Mile Katastrophenbewältigung

Period: November 2013 to March 2019

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Markus Peschl

Funding program: FFG KIRAS

FFG

Innovation Lens

Period: October 2014 to January 2019

Principal investigator(s): Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Markus Peschl

Funding program: FFG COIN

FFG

ENA: Event Network Advancement

Period: March 2012 to February 2015

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Markus Peschl

Funding program: FFG BRIDGE

FFG

Development and Evaluation of a Meta-Heuristic for Business Continuity Management (BCM)

Period: February to June 2014

Principal investigators: Dr. Eva Gatarik

Funding program: FFG Innovationsscheck

FFG

Development and Evaluation of a Prototype for Gamification Refinder

Period: August to November 2011

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Markus Peschl

Funding program: FFG Innovationsscheck

Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)

FWF

Unravelling the role of the opioid system in pain empathy

Period: May 2019 to September 2024

Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Claus Lamm

Funding agency: FWF Principal Investigator Projects

Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Neuropsychopharmacology

FWF

The micro-phenomenology of interpersonal synergy practices

Period: May 2020 to April 2024

Principal investigator: Mag. Dr. Michael Kimmel

Funding agency: FWF Principal Investigator Projects

Project website: https://synergies.univie.ac.at/

FWF

Embodied Creativity in Dyadic Interaction

Period: June 2015 to June 2020

Principal investigator: Mag. Dr. Michael Kimmel

Funding agency: FWF Principal Investigator Projects

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

FWF

Unalternative Constraints Cross-Linguistically

Period: November 2016 to February 2020

Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Daniel Büring

Funding program: FWF Principal Investigator Projects

Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Linguistics

FWF

The Cultural Eye / The Gendered Eye

Period: September 2013 to December 2020

Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Raphael Rosenberg

Funding program: FWF Principal Investigator Projects

Involved fields: Art History, Psychology

FWF

Towards an Experimental Narratology of the Image

Period: December 2015 to January 2018

Principal investigator: Dr. Klaus-Peter Speidel

Funding program: FWF Lise Meitner Programme

Involved fields: Art History, Philosophy, Psychology

Interdisciplinary Clusterprojekte UniVie & MedUni Vienna

Interdisciplinary Clusterprojekte UniVie & MedUni Vienna

Unraveling the Aesthetic Mind in Anhedonia:

Insights from pharmacological imaging of the human brain

Period: August 2021 to July 2024

Principal investigators: Mag. Dr. Julia Crone; Univ.-Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr.med. Rupert Lanzenberger

Funding program: Inter-university clusterprojects of Uni Vienna and MedUni Vienna

External partners: Medical University of Vienna

Keywords: neuroaesthetics; pharmacological neuroimaging; depression; complex net- work analyses; fMRI; ketamine

Funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)

WWTF

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

Period: June 2019 to December 2023

Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dott. Leonida Fusani, MPhil PhD

Co-Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Helmut Leder; Dr. Cliodhna Quigley, BSc MSc

External partners: University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna

Funding programme: Cognitive Sciences 2018

Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Empirical Aesthetics, Cognitive Biology

WWTF

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

Period: October 2019 to September 2023

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 programme: Cognitive Sciences 2018

External partners: University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna

Involved fields: Cognitive Science, Cognitive Biology, Neuroscience

WWTF

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

Period: July 2016 to June 2020

Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Raphael Rosenberg

Co-Principal investigator: Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Helmut Leder

Funding program: WWTF Cognitive Sciences 2015

Involved fields: Art History, Psychology

WWTF

Like Me: The evolutionary and neuro-cognitive basis of the link between imitation, empathy and prosocial behaviour in dogs and humans

Period: April 2012 to June 2016

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

Funding program: WWTF Cognitive Sciences 2011

Involved fields: Cognitive Biology, Psychology

WWTF

Modeling Visual Attention as a Key Factor in Visual Recognition

Period: March 2012 to February 2016

Principal investigators: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ansorge, Dr. Shelley Buchinger, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Ottmar Scherzer

Funding program: WWTF Cognitive Sciences 2011

Involved fields: Psychology, Computer Science, Mathematics

WWTF

Time makes a difference! Uncovering the nature of asthetic experience

Period: March 2012 to July 2015

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

Funding program: WWTF Cognitive Sciences 2011

Involved fields: Psychology, Art History

PhD Projects

ÖAW

AI-supported adaptive serious gaming

Period: October 2017 to September 2020

Principal investigators: Dipl.-Ing. Barbara Göbl, BSc; ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Thomas Slunecko

Funding program: ÖAW DOC Team

Involved fields: Cultural anthropology, Cognitive science

ÖAW

Difficulty and strategies in emotion regulation

Period: October 2017 to September 2020

Principal investigators: Dayana Hristova, MSc; Mag. Dr. Michael Kimmel; ao. Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Thomas Slunecko

Funding program: ÖAW DOC Team

Involved fields: Cultural anthropology, Cognitive science

PhD Project

An interdisciplinary investigation of the ultimate and proximate causes of empathy

Principal investigator: Jessie Adriaense, MSc

Supervisor(s): Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Thomas Bugnyar, Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Claus Lamm

Involved fields: Cognitive Biology, Psychology

PhD Project

Soon the meaning of lines will be revealed to us

Principal investigator: Jane Boddy, BA MA

Supervisor(s): Univ.-Prof. Dr. Raphael Rosenberg, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Helmut Leder

Involved fields: Art History, Psychology

PhD Project

Psychometric Investigations of Scientific Methods in Art Research

Principal investigator: Mag. Hanna Weichselbaum

Supervisor(s): Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ansorge, Univ.-Prof. Dipl.-Psych. Dr. Helmut Leder

Involved fields: Psychology, Aesthetics