Print this pageWelcome to the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit
The Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit (SCAN-Unit) is an interdisciplinary center of the Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods (external link) at the Faculty of Psychology (external link) of the University of Vienna (external link)
The SCAN-Unit conducts research in the fields of social neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and affective neuroscience. A major research focus is social cognition and behavior. In this domain, the SCAN-Unit has made substantial contributions to further our understanding of the neural underpinnings of empathy and understanding others, and their link to prosocial behavior, cooperation, and competition. Additional research interests include decision making, neuroeconomics, the interaction of emotion and cognition, as well as the neural correlates of conscious and unconscious processing.
The SCAN-Unit and its predecessor, the Brain Research Laboratory (head: Prof. Herbert Bauer), has published over 100 papers in peer reviewed, international scientific journals, and about the same number of abstracts and delivered over 100 posters and oral presentations at national or international scientific conferences.
Currently, the group consists of one professor, two senior and four junior post-doctoral scientists, three research assistants, one software engineer, and several research fellows, PhD and graduate students, and guest researchers.
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