Selected Areas of Research

A list of the main research topics related to the professors of Department of Cognitive Science at CEU:

  • Gergely Csibra (cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience)
  • József Fiser (visual perception and cognition, biological and statistical learning)
  • György Gergely (infant cognition, developmental psychopathology)
  • Christophe Heintz (culture and cognition, scientific cognition, cognitive economics)
  • Guenther Knoblich (experimental psychology, social cognition, thinking)
  • Ágnes M. Kovács (development of social cognition, bilingualism)
  • Natalie Sebanz (social cognition, social cognitive neuroscience)
  • Dan Sperber (culture and cognition, communication and language, evolution)
  • Máté Lengyel (computational neuroscience, cognitive modelling, probabilistic models, learning and memory)
  • Anne Tamm (theories of language, linguistic diversity)
  • Stephen Butterfill [from September 2012 till December 2012] (Visiting Professor)
  • Pierre Jacob [from January 2013 till April 2013] (Visiting Professor)

For more information, please see the faculty profiles.

 Selected Areas of Research:
• Behavioral economics
• Cognition and culture
• Cognitive development
• Cooperation
• Computational models
• Computational neuroscience
• Developmental psychopathology
• Embodied cognition
• Infant social cognition
• Joint action
• Language and cognition
• Learning and memory
• Memory development
• Problem solving
• Social cognitive neuroscience
• Statistical learning
• Theory of Mind
• Visual perception