Welcome
This "emerging focus" of the Faculty of Life Sciences has been established on the 1st January 2005 and consists of two research groups, one in Vienna, the other in Grünau (Upper Austria). The Vienna group is in the Department for Neurobiology and Cognition Research. Only this group is presented here. The Grünau group is part of the Konrad Lorenz Research Station (please see the respective site for more information). Together with the Ludwig Boltzmannn Institute for Urban Ethology they form the backbone of the RESEARCH FOCUS COGNITION of the Faculty of Life Sciences.
Cognition may be characterized as the adaptive modification of behavior by means of both individual and social learning. Research includes perceptual as well as attentive processes, forms of representation, and rules of manipulation of information. For a long time, such issues were in a unique psychological territory. Only with the emergence of behavioral ecology and cognitive ethology has information processing gradually received increased attention from biologists. Today it is widely acknowledged that issues of learning and memory are crucial for understanding problems in both the natural and cultural sciences. This view is based on the perspectives of evolutionary epistemology to understand the origin of human reason.
Research topics
Visual cognition
Social cognition
Technical cognition
Evolution of cognition
Model species
Pigeon (Columba livia)
Kea (Nestor notabilis)
Marmoset (Callithrix jacchus)
Raven (Corvus corax)
Dog (Canis familiaris)
Contact:
Ao. Prof. Dr. Ludwig Huber
e-mail: ludwig.huber@univie.ac.at
phone: +43 1 4277 54480
fax: 43 1 4277 54509
postal address:
Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien, Österreich
Layout: Matthias Samwald
Last update by Ludwig Huber: 13. Oct. 07
Universität Wien
Althanstrasse 14
A-1090 Wien
T: +43 1 4277 54471