September 9, 2014
CEU’s new Social Mind Center (SOMIC@CEU) opens with the start of academic year 2014-15. The center will promote interdisciplinary research that enhances our understanding of how biological and cultural factors shape individual minds and of how individual minds support joint action, teaching, and communication. The founding members of the center include Christophe Heintz, Gunther Knoblich, who will serve as director through 2017, Natalie Sebanz, and Dan Sperber.
January 28, 2014
CEU Cognitive Science Associate Professor Natalie Sebanz received a €2 million Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council for her project “JAXPERTISE,” that will explore how humans learn to coordinate their actions with others, and how they learn from each other through collaboration. Sebanz's project will break new ground by identifying the behavioral, cognitive, and neural mechanisms underlying the learning of joint action, with a special focus on music and dance.
January 14, 2014
Professors Gyorgy Gergely, Gunther Knoblich, and Dan Sperber of the Department of Cognitive Science received a €9.6 million Synergy Grant from the European Research Council, together with their colleague Josep Call, director of the Wolfgang Kohler Primate Research Center at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The prestigious Synergy Grants are given to top researchers in all disciplines for groundbreaking research projects that significantly advance the frontiers of knowledge.
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