Schedule

Colloquium of the Institute of Cognitive Science

Winter 2011/2012


The Institute of Cognitive Science (IKW) welcomes the lecturers of our colloquium in the winter term 2011/2012. We are looking forward to an interesting series of talks.

All talks will be held at Albrechtstrasse 28, room 31/449a.

DateTopicLecturer
19.10.2011 - 18:00Cognitive science and the changing face of mechanistic explanation

Carlos Zednik, PhD

26.10.2011 - 18:00The Origin and Evolution of Language: A Plausible, Strong-AI Account

Prof. Dr. Jerry Hobbs

University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute
02.11.2011 - 18:00Perception of the active observer

Lewis Chuang

Max Planck Institut für Biologische Kybernetik, Tübingen
09.11.2011 - 18:00The Causal Chain Problem

Dr. Michael Baumgartner

Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz
16.11.2011 - 18:00Time and Causality

Dr. Marc J. Bühner

Cardiff University, School of Psychology
23.11.2011 - 18:00Recalibration Makes (the) Perfect Sense

Prof. Dr. Marc Ernst

Universität Bielefeld,
01.12.2011 - 18:00Dynamic coordination of functional networks in the cerebral cortex: Mechanisms, development and psychiatric diseases

Prof. Dr. Wolf Singer

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
07.12.2011 - 18:00Preference-Independent Surround Modulation in Area V1: Circuit Models and Role During Natural Vision

Prof. Dr. Lars Schwabe

Universität Rostock
14.12.2011 - 18:00Optimal time windows of multisensory integration

Prof. Dr. Hans Colonius

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Institut für Psychologie
18.01.2012 - 18:00Visual ecology of motion

Prof. Dr. Markus Lappe

Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Institut für Psychologie
25.01.2012 - 18:00Visual Perception: A neural population code model for human pattern detection

Prof. Dr. Felix Wichmann--CANCELED!!!

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung
01.02.2012 - 18:00Visuomotor behavior in naturalistic task: From receptive fields to value functions"

Dr. Constantin A. Rothkopf

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
08.02.2012 - 18:00The emergence of objects

Prof. Dr. Michael Herzog

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne