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The Vienna Doctoral School in Cognition, Behavior and Neuroscience (VDS CoBeNe) was granted in 2016 as one of the first Doctoral Schools at the University of Vienna, and was based in the Faculty of Life Sciences. After integrating the Faculty of Psychology, as well as researchers in the humanities, in 2020, the VDS is now a major interdisciplinary Doctoral School at the University of Vienna. CoBeNe combines the strength of four main research areas: Psychological Science, Behavioral & Cognitive Biology, Neuroscience, and the Cognitive Humanities.
The aim of the VDS CoBeNe is to foster structured doctoral education at the University of Vienna and to create an environment supporting interdisciplinary research and research training. The school integrates excellent existing research centers in Cognition, Behavior, and Neuroscience in Vienna. These centers were previously mostly independent, and range from molecular/cellular/developmental biology to psychological sciences and the humanities.
The mission of the Vienna Doctoral School in Cognition, Behavior and Neuroscience is to enhance academic and professional development of graduate students, advance intellectual communication and scholarship across disciplines, and promote cultural diversity, scientific integrity, and international collaboration.
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News & Events
Funding agencies such as FFG Expedition Zukunft are highlighting the importance of the research impact in their application guidlines. The United...
We are excited to invite you to get together for a round of drinks and chats with your fellow PhD students again. Everyone is welcome to join and...
We would like to invite all of the Life Sciences PhD candidates and Master students to a digital roundtable event with the new data steward, Dr. Emily...
Prof. Leslea Hlusko, from UC Berkeley and the Spanish National Research Centre for Human Evolution (CENIEH), will give a role model seminar for early...
We are excited to announce that the next international Computational Psychiatry Course organised by the Translational Neuromodeling Unit (TNU; PI:...
The aim of these meetings is to bring together researchers and philosophy students who are interested in the theoretical approaches to cognition.
Defenses
Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology
“Reweighting of Binaural Cues: Generalizability and Applications in
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Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology
“Beiträge zur Modellierung latenter Variablen in Multistage Designs”
Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology
“Entscheidungsfindung im onkologischen Kontext. Ein multiperspektivischer Ansatz”
PhD Defense of Mario Gallego-Abenza, 30.09.2022, 17:00
Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Biology.
"Social cognition and fission-fusion dynamics in non-breeder Common ravens (Corvus corax)”
PhD Defense of Magdalena Boch: 30.09.2022, 15:00
Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology.
"How dogs and humans perceive and understand each other: a comparative neuroimaging...
PhD Defense of Claudia Massaccesi: 29.09.2022, 16:00
Public Defense in the Doctoral Research Field: Psychology
"Neurobiology and state-dependency of human social affiliation: behavioural,...
