KogWis 2025

Ruhr-University Bochum

01.09.2025 – 03.09.2025

Keynote Speakers

Rebecca Boehme

Rebecca Boehme

Linköping University

Social and Affective Neuroscience

Stefanie Höhl

Stefanie Höhl

University of Vienna

Developmental Psychology

Angela Yu

Angela Yu

Technical University Darmstadt

Cognitive Modeling of Intelligent Systems

Cameron Buckner

Cameron Buckner

University of Florida

Philosophy of Psychology

Stefan Scherbaum

Stefan Scherbaum

Technical University Dresden

Cognitive Modeling

Lars Chittka

Lars Chittka

Queen Mary University London

Animal Cognition

Susanna Schellenberg

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