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, and language and cognition. The department consists of five major research units: the Cognitive Development Center (CDC), the Social Mind Center (SOMIC), the Center for Cognitive Computation (CCC), the Adaptive Cognition and Economics Group (ACE Group) and the Language Comprehension Lab.
The main research topics pursued in the department are as follows:
Cognitive anthropology
Christophe Heintz and Dan Speber
Computational Cognitive Science
Azzurra Ruggeri
Developmental psychology
Gergely Csibra, György Gergely, Jonathan Kominsky, Agnes M. Kovacs and Erno Teglas
Economics and cognition
Christophe Heintz
Embodied cognition in individuals and groups
Guenther Knoblich and Natalie Sebanz
Infant social cognition
Dan Sperber, Agnes M. Kovacs, Jonathan Kominsky
Internal Representations
Jonathan Kominsky
Mathematical modeling of cognition
József Fiser and Máté Lengyel
Neural implementation of cognitive processes in the brain
József Fiser and Máté Lengyel
Philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science
Most faculty members
Studies on social cognition
Gergely Csibra, György Gergely, Christophe Heintz, Dan Sperber, Erno Teglas, Guenther Knoblich and Natalie Sebanz
Visual perception and statistical learning
József Fiser
Language and cognition
Eva Wittenberg