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