News & Events

08.10.2018
 

Spatenstich für neue Konrad-Lorenz-Forschungsstelle in Grünau

 

Der Wildpark Grünau und die Konrad-Lorenz-Forschungsstelle der Universität Wien pflegen in den Bereichen Tierhaltung und Wissensvermittlung seit...

05.10.2018
 

Programme winter term 2018

04.10.2018
 

Wir freuen uns, dass wir Teil des "BE OPEN - Science & Society Festival" des FWF vom 8.-12. September 2018 am Maria Theresienplatz in Wien sein...

02.10.2018
 

TICS Special Issue: Time in the Brain

"The Evolution of Rhythm Processing"

S.A.Kotz; A.Ravignani; W.T.Fitch

 

 

02.10.2018
 

Munia and Rufus, two CogBio ravens from Haidlhof Research Station have successfully been relocated to the brand new raven aviary of the Zoo Vienna.

08.09.2018
 

CogBio at FWF "Be-Open Festival" 08.-12.September 2018

The Department of Cognitive Biology Vienna is proud to be participating in the Be Open Festival of the FWF as part of their 50 Years FWF festivities.

Publications


Hirschenhauser K, Buhrow H, Fischer-Mamblona H, Kotrschal K. Goose research then and now. In Scheiber I, Weiß B, Hemetsberger J, Kotrschal K, editors, The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System. Cambridge University Press. 2013. p. 26-41

Hemetsberger J, Weiß BM, Scheiber I. Greylag geese: from general principles to the Konrad Lorenz flock. In Scheiber I, Weiß B, Hemetsberger J, Kotrschal K, editors, The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. p. 3-25

Kralj -Fiser S, Niall Daisley J, Kotrschal K. Individuals matter: personality. In Scheiber I, Weiß B, Hemetsberger J, Kotrschal K, editors, The Social Life of Greylag Geese: Patterns, Mechanisms and Evolutionary Function in an Avian Model System. Cambridge University Press. 2013. p. 45-64

Slana A, Gingras B, Fitch WT, Repovs G. Interference effect and cognitive control: The case of pitch class change detection. In Proceedings of the 16th International Multiconference of the Information Society. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2013. p. 354-357

Aust U, Steurer M. Learning of an oddity rule by pigeons in a four-choice touch-screen procedure. Animal Cognition. 2013;16(3):321-341. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0574-y

Weiß B, Scheiber IBR. Long-term memory of hierarchical relationships in free-living greylag geese. Animal Cognition. 2013;16(1):91-97. doi: 10.1007/s10071-012-0554-2, 10.1007/s10071-012-0554-2

Fitch WT. Musical protolanguage: Darwin's theory of language evolution revisited. In Birdsong, Speech and Language : Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain. MIT Press. 2013

Fitch WT. Noam Chomsky and the Biology of Language. In Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. University of Chicago Press. 2013. p. 201-222

Ravignani A, Matellán Olivera V, Gingras B, Hofer R, Rodríguez Hernández C, Sonnweber RS et al. Primate drum kit: a system for studying acoustic pattern production by non-human primates using acceleration and strain sensors. Sensors. 2013;13(8):9790-9820. doi: 10.3390/s130809790

Fitch WT, Zuberbühler K. Primate Precursors to Human Language: Beyond Discontinuity. In The Evolution of Emotional Communication. Oxford University Press. 2013