International PhD Programme at the University of Salzburg

The programme covers the following interdisciplinary areas: neurocognition, psychology (clinical, cognitive, developmental and social), linguistics and biology. Faculty and research projects:

• Hubert Haider: psycholinguistics of syntactic processing
• Eva Jonas: neural foundations of mortality awareness and reactance; reactance and perspective taking
• Hubert Kerschbaum: sex-dependent differences in stress response and number processing
• Wolfgang Klimesch: functional meaning of EEG brain oscillations
• Josef Perner: theory of mind (perspective taking), consciousness, episodic memory
• Manuel Schabus: sleep and cognition; neuronal correlates of consciousness; disorders of consciousness research
• Frank Wilhelm: emotion regulation, stress, neural processes of mental disorders and psychotherapy
• Heinz Wimmer: reading and dyslexia

The programme started 1^st October 2011.