Keynote Speakers
Rebecca Boehme
Linköping University
Social and Affective Neuroscience
Stefanie Höhl
University of Vienna
Developmental Psychology
Angela Yu
Technical University Darmstadt
Cognitive Modeling of Intelligent Systems
Cameron Buckner
University of Florida
Philosophy of Psychology
Stefan Scherbaum
Technical University Dresden
Cognitive Modeling
Lars Chittka
Queen Mary University London
Animal Cognition
Susanna Schellenberg
Rutgers University
Cognitive Philosophy
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