CEU Department of Cognitive Science

20/02/2026

Warm congratulations to Levente Madarász, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Developing an Understanding of Gradable Complementaries” on Monday at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with
Krysten Syrett (Rutgers University) and Nausicaa Pouscoulous (University College London) as External Examiners, Ernő Téglás (CEU) and Dan Sperber (CEU) as Supervisors and Christophe Heintz (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Congratulations, Levente, we are so proud of you!!!

13/01/2026

Warm congratulations to Elena Marx who successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “Inferring Temporal Order in Language
Comprehension” today at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with Gerry Altmann (University of Connecticut) and Ercenur Ünal (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) as External Examiners, Eva Wittenberg (CEU) and Agnes Melinda Kovacs (CEU) as Supervisors and Gergely Csibra (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Congratulations, we are so proud of you, Elena!!!

09/12/2025

We invite you to join the upcoming CEU Virtual Open Day on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.

⏰ Department of Cognitive Science session: 15:35 – 16:00

💻 For details and registration, please visit the link below.

CEU promotes interdisciplinary
research on 21st-century issues, incorporating Central European and American traditions.

03/12/2025

Warm congratulations to Maximilian Marschner who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Acting in the We-Mode: The Content and Structure of Joint Task Representations” yesterday at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with Professor Lucia Maria Sacheli (University of Milano-Bicocca) and Roland Pfister (Trier University) as External Reviewers, Günther Knoblich (CEU) and Marcel Brass (Humboldt-Universität) as Supervisors and Eva Wittenberg (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Congratulations, we are so proud of you, Max!!!

23/09/2025

Warm congratulations to Elisa Wiedemann who successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “SELF-OTHER RELATIONS IN INTERPERSONAL SYNCHRONY” last week at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with Professor Tal Chen Rabinowitch (University of Haifa) and Professor Antonia Hamilton (UCL) as External Examiners, Natalie Sebanz (CEU) and Günther Knoblich (CEU) as Supervisors and Ernő Téglás (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Congratulations, we are so proud of you, Elisa!

12/09/2025

Warm congratulations to Ákos Szegőfi who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Gaming epistemic vigilance” today at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with Joe Stubbersfield (University of Wi******er) and Jon Roozenbeek (University of Cambridge) as External Examiners, Christophe Heintz (CEU) and György Gergely (CEU) as Supervisors and Eva Wittenberg (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Congratulations, we are so proud of you, Akos!

11/09/2025

Warm congratulations to Dávid Ádám Magas who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Representation of Uncertainty and Recall Precision in Long-Term Episodic and Semantic Memories” today at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with Pernille Hemmer (Rutgers University) and Timothy Brady (UC San Diego) as External Examiners, József Fiser (CEU) and Máté Lengyel (CEU/Cambridge) as Supervisors and Ernő Téglás (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Wonderful job, we are so proud of you, Dávid!

11/09/2025

Warm congratulations to Magdalena Roszkowski who successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “THE ACQUISITION OF PLURAL EXPRESSIONS - How children learn to navigate the logical space in the realm of pluralities” yesterday at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with Athulya Aravind (Yale) and Jean-Remy Hochmann (CNRS) as External Examiners, Ernő Téglás (CEU) and György Gergely (CEU) as Supervisors and Natalie Sebanz (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Wonderful job, we are so proud of you, Magdalena! 🎉

11/09/2025

See You next Thursday at the CEU Virtual Open Day for Master’s & PhD programs.
🎓Department of Cognitive Science
📅September 18, 15:15 –15:35

Visit the link for full details and registration:
https://www.ceu.edu/admissions/connect/open-day

04/09/2025

Join us on🗓️Thursday, September 18, for the upcoming Virtual Open Day at Central European University to learn about our programs, ask questions, and connect directly with students and faculty.

Departmental session of the Department of Cognitive Science:
🕒 15:15–15:35 Vienna time (CEST)

See you there!