CEU Department of Cognitive Science

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CEU Department of Cognitive Science

Department of Cognitive Science at Central European University (CEU). In our research we address the social and biological aspects of human cognition.

Multidisciplinary, research-intensive PhD program accredited in Austria and the United States. Research in the department is conducted in the research labs together with one or more faculty members. Major research areas include developmental psychology, cognitive social sciences, visual perception and learning, mathematical modeling of cognition, behavioral economic, neural coding in the brain, an

d language and cognition. The department consists of four major research units: the Cognitive Development Center (CDC),the Social Mind Center (SOMIC), the Center for Cognitive Computation (CCC) and the Behavioral Economics Lab (BEC Lab).

23/07/2026

Ákos Szegőfi, who earned his PhD in Cognitive Science from CEU Department of Cognitive Science, shares the findings of his research on misinformation, trust, deceptive communication and human decision-making!

15/07/2026

Warm congratulations to Maria Mavridaki who successfully defended her PhD dissertation titled “EPISTEMIC AGENTS IN A SOCIAL WORLD: INFANTS’ AND CHILDREN’S INFORMATION SEEKING FROM OTHERS” yesterday at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with Gil Diesendruck (Bar-Ilan University) and Kelsey Lucca (Arizona State University) as External Examiners, Ágnes Melinda Kovács (CEU) and Ernő Téglás (CEU) as Supervisors and with Christophe Heintz (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Congratulations, Mara, we are super-proud of you!!!😍🤩

13/07/2026

Warm congratulations to Ohan Hominis who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Motivated Epistemic Engagement” last Friday at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with Melissa Koenig (University of Minnesota) and Sebastian Grüneisen (Leipzig University) as External Examiners, Azzurra Ruggeri (CEU/TUM) and Christophe Heintz (CEU) as Supervisors and with Jozsef Fiser (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Congratulations, Ohan, we are so proud of you!!! 👏🧑‍🎓

09/07/2026

Warm congratulations to Andreas Arslan, who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “What, when and why: Causal structures in event representations ” at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with Markus Werning (Ruhr Universitat, Bochum) and Tomer Ullman (Harvard, Psychology Department) as External Examiners, Jonathan Kominsky (CEU) and Gergely Csibra (CEU) as Supervisors and Natalie Sebanz (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Congratulations, Andreas, we are so proud of you!!

16/06/2026

💥We are happy to share that Ákos Szegőfi, our former PhD student who is graduating this week, currently a postdoctoral researcher at University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is one of the recipients of the 2026 CEU Best Dissertation Award for the dissertation Gaming Epistemic Vigilance (supervisor: Professor Christophe Heintz, secondary supervisor: Professor Emeritus György Gergely).
Congratulations, Ákos! 🎉

09/06/2026

Warm congratulations to Thomas Ganzetti who successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled “Affective Observation: A Route to Cultural Learning” last Friday at the CEU Department of Cognitive Science in Vienna with David Sander (University of Geneva) and Zanna Clay (Durham University) as External Examiners, Gunther Knoblich (CEU) and Christophe Heintz (CEU) as Supervisors and with Jozsef Fiser (CEU) as Head of the Dissertation Committee.
Congratulations, Thomas, we are so proud of you!!!🥳

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!!!

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