Keynote Speakers
Invited Symposia
SYMPOSIUM 1: Phenomenal Consciousness – An evolutionary perspective
Speakers:
Albert Newen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Profiles of phenomenal consciousness: A dimensional approach to human and animal consciousness
Carlos Montemayor (San Francisco State University): The functional roles of phenomenal consciousness: The ALARM theory of consciousness
Andreas Nieder (Universität Tübingen): Investigating animal consciousness in birds
Lucia Melloni (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Investigating consciousness in humans
SYMPOSIUM 2: Sensory augmentation – Extended mind
Organizer: Julia Wolf (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Speakers:
Peter König (Universität Osnabrück): Augmented sensory experiences for spatial orientation: new tools based on magnetic field sensitivity to extend human cognition
Etienne Burdet (Imperial College London): Sensorimotor augmentation with humans and robots
Contributed Symposia
SYMPOSIUM 3: The complexity of pain
Organizer: Sascha Fink (Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) & Dominik Koesling (Universität Münster)
Speakers:
Sabrina Coninx (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), The complexities of pain – The problem of plenty and the problem of parts
Frauke Nees (Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel): Beyond chronic pain: complex interplay between emotional and cognitive mechanisms.
Claudia Bozzaro, (Universität Münster): The ambivalent power of pain metaphors and images
Ying-Tung Lin & Christopher Jude McCarroll (National Yang Ming ChiaoTung University): Remembering pain successfully
SYMPOSIUM 5: Rethinking personhood – Philosophical, cognitive, and ethical perspectives on non-human animals
Organizer: Angelica Kaufmann (University of Milan)
Speakers:
Alfredo Vernazzani (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): The practice of personhood
Lars Chittka (Queen Mary University of London): Insect individuality
Angelica Kaufmann (University of Milan): Personhood in non-human animals
SYMPOSIUM 7: Why care about ChatGPT’s thoughts? – On the methodological value of the cognitive science of AI
Organizer: Carlos Zednik (Technical University Eindhoven) & Frank Jäkel (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Speakers:
Carlos Zednik (Technische Universität Eindhoven): Studying LLMs to explain human cognition – Context of discovery or context of justification?
Frank Jäkel (Technische Universität Darmstadt): On using natural language for self-programming in cognitive architectures
Marcel Binz (Helmholtz Institut München): Foundation models of human cognition
Polina Tsvilodub (Universität Tübingen): Scaling cognitive process models with scaffolded LLMs
SYMPOSIUM 9: Automated scientific discovery of mind and brain
Organizer: Sebastian Musslick (Universität Osnabrück, Brown University) & Pascal Nieters (Universität Osnabrück)
Speakers:
Sebastian Musslick (Universität Osnabrück): Closed-loop scientific discovery in cognitive science
Daniel Weinhardt (Universität Osnabrück): Computational discovery of human reinforcement learning dynamics from choice Behavior
Sedighe Raeisi (Universität Osnabrück): Computational discovery of individual differences in cognitive mechanisms
Pascal Nieters (Universität Osnabrück): From neurons to cognition: Charting a data-driven path to dendritic computation
SYMPOSIUM 4: Affected Beliefs – Mechanisms underlying the formation and change of self-beliefs in humans and AI
Organizer: Nele Rußwinkel (Universität zu Lübeck) & Sören Krach (Universität zu Lübeck)
Speakers:
Sören Krach (Universität zu Lübeck): How are self-beliefs established and revisited?
Ines Wilhelm-Groch (Christian Albrechts Universität Kiel): Memory reactivations effects on negative self-beliefs
Nele Rußwinkel (Universität zu Lübeck): The development of self-belief of being in control in human and artificial
SYMPOSIUM 6: Cognitive aspects of trust in human-AI teams
Organizer: Ute Schmid (Universität Bamberg), Eda Ismail-Tsaous (Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation) & Celine Spannagl (Bayerisches Forschungsinstitut für Digitale Transformation)
Speakers:
Ute Schmid (Universität Bamberg): Explain to understand and explain to revise – Cognitive requirements for human-AI-teams
Johannes Fürnkranz (Johannes Kepler Universität Linz): Interpretability biases in machine and human learning
Fritz Becker (Universität Bielefeld): Perceived ability and competence as a factor of trust in human-AI teams
Sebastian Krügel (Universität Hohenheim): Decision-making context as a factor of trust in human-AI teams and associated ethical implications
SYMPOSIUM 8: Brains in space – The structure and metric of the cognitive map
Organizer: Sen Cheng (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Speakers:
Hanspeter A. Mallot (Universität Tübingen): Types of spatial representation: reference frames, inner structure, and a note on evolution
Andrew Glennerster (University of Reading): A hierarchy of contexts for navigation
Sandhiya Vijayabaskaran (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): Emergent spatial representations in artificial agents
William de Cothi (University College London): Predictive maps in and around the hippocampal formation