The CCNS seeks to fill the position of tenured full professor in Cognitive Psychology. The appointment can be filled by October 2019.
Open position: Tenured full professor in Cognitive Psychology
Third funding period of the Doctoral College “Imaging the Mind”
During the last board meeting in the end of November, the FWF decided to prolong the Doctoral College “Imaging the Mind” (Speaker: Manuel Schabus; Deputy: Josef Perner) for a final third funding period.
FWF grant for Kerstin Hödlmoser
Kerstin Hödlmoser has been awarded with a stand-alone project from the Austrian Science Fund FWF (378,908 €). She will investigate the impact of blue-enriched smartphone light exposure before falling asleep on sleep-dependent memory consolidation and emotion regulation in adolescents.
New Publication: “The Impact of Transitional Movements and Non-Manual Markings on the Disambiguation of Locally Ambiguous Argument Structures in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS)”
In this gating study Julia Krebs, Dietmar Roehm and their colleagues Ronnie Wilbur and Phillip Alday investigate which cues within the visual signal resolve local ambiguity in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). Disambiguation is triggered earlier than expected based on theoretical
Christine Blume is awarded the “Giselher-Guttmann Prize” 2018
The prize is awarded to young researchers by the Austrian Society for Neuropsychology (GNPÖ). Christine receives the prize for her work on circadian rhythms in severely brain-injured patients with disorders of consciousness.
New Publication: “Developmental Changes of Sleep Spindles and their Impact on Sleep-Dependant Memory Consolidation and General Cognitive Abilities” in Developmental Science
“Whoever sleeps well, learns better.” Michael Hahn and Kerstin Hödlmoser found in a 8-year comparison that a very specific brain flow pattern (sleep spindle) plays a key role in the development of sleep-dependent memory consolidation.
Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship for Christine Blume
In the end of June, Christine Blume has been awarded a Schrödinger Fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund FWF. From 2019 on she is going to spend two years at the Department for Chronobiology at the Psychiatric University Clinic Basel
New Publication: “Subject preference emerges as cross-modal strategy for linguistic processing”
The study of Julia Krebs, Dietmar Roehm and their colleagues Ronnie Wilbur and Evie Malaia, investigates the processing of locally ambiguous argument structures in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS). Their experiment aimed to examine whether these structures are processed by a
New Publication: “Standing Sentinel during Human Sleep: Continued Evaluation of Environmental Stimuli in the Absence of Consciousness” in NeuroImage
In this study Christine Blume and Manuel Schabus and their colleagues sought to investigate to what extent processing of environmental stimuli is still possible during sleep and especially deep NREM and REM sleep. Moreover, they were interested in whether inhibition
Publication: Action video gaming and the brain
In this fMRI study, we compared task performance and brain activation between longtime action video gamers and nongamers in order to investigate possible effects of gaming on cognitive and brain abilities. Despite their comparable task performance gamers and nongamers exhibited clear-cut differences