Center for Cognitive Science

Join us at Fechner Day 2024: 40th International Society for Psychophysics Meeting, happening from October 7th to 9th, 2024, at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Submit your abstracts by June 20th for a chance to present your research!
https://2024.fechnerday.com/

Join us at our MobiCHAI 2024 workshop in Melbourne: We are pleased to announce that our proposal to host an international workshop on “Mobile Cognition-Altering Technologies using Human-Centered AI” has been accepted by the organizers of Mobile HCI. Besides members of the Center for Cognitive Science, Passant, Agnes (main organizers), Paul (all DFKI), Jan and Thomas (RPTU), Giulia and Kai (Keio University) will also be part of the workshop team. If you are at MobiCHAI, September 30 - October 3, Melbourne, Australia, come along.

MobiCHAI – AI Enhanced Cognition In the mobiCHAI workshop, we aim to have an interdisciplinary group of researchers including but not limited to education and didactic, health- and mental care, fitness and well-being, economy, sociology, and others. However, we expect the majority of submissions to come from computer science from s...

Feel free to join the colloquium of the Center for Cognitive Science, Thursdays 3:30pm Amsterdam time. Next week, Dec 7th, we will have Klaus Oberauer, Zurich.
Join in person, B 57, 508, or online:
Zoom Link: https://uni-kl-de.zoom-x.de/j/66044180812?pwd=UkVBUVlQdEJwSjFNMVFqcEFyTk44Zz09

More information and abstracts here:

https://rptu.de/center-for-cognitive-science/colloquium/winter-semester-2023-2024

The RPTU Center for Cognitive Science was well represented both at the ICBEN in Belgrade and at the DFG Addictive Meeting in Aachen.

PiF 2023 in Ghent: 20th Psycholinguistics in Flanders with Dr. Allen from RPTU KL as a key note speaker. The Center for Cognitive Science supported a number of young scientists from the Graduate School Cognitive Science at RPTU to present their data there.

Congratulations to Falk Huettig from the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen on receiving the certificate signed by our State Prime Minister, appointing him as an Honorary Professor at RPTU. This appointment serves as a significant reinforcement for the Center for Cognitive Science in Kaiserslautern. We warmly welcome Falk and look forward to a successful collaboration.

This week the Center for Cognitive Science at TU Kaiserslautern welcomes international scientists to the 33th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, organized by Achim Ebert and Thomas Lachmann.

ECCE is the leading conference in human-media interaction and cognitive ergonomics. It provides an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experiences for a variety of domains.
The special theme of 33rd ECCE conference, which will be held October 4-7, 2022 in Kaiserslautern, Germany, is:
Evaluating the Reality–Virtuality Continuum

Information:

Home ECCE is the leading conference in human-media interaction and cognitive ergonomics. It provides an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experiences for a variety of domains.

Representing the professors teaching in the CogSci program, Shanley Allen attended the ISGS International Student Graduation Ceremony at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern a few days ago. Thirteen graduates from two generations of our Master's program in Cognitive Science accepted the TU invitation and celebrated their achievements. Congratulations to all of them! Take a look at some of their photos (stolen from the students' posts and from Shanley). Feel free to post more in the comments section.

Call for Papers for Special Issue on
Dyslexia and Culture

Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science (Springer)

Guest editors:
Thomas Lachmann and Kirstin Bergström, Center for Cognitive Science, TU Kaiserslautern

Submissions welcome, see:

Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science Language and orthography are two crucial cultural factors that affect both reading acquisition as well as the manifestation and diagnosis of developmental dyslexia (e.g., Seymour, Aro, & Erskine, 2003; for reviews, see Ziegler & Goswami, 2005; Verhoeven, Perfetti, & Pugh, 2019). Consequently, resear...

Today 3:30pm CET! Join online.

https://uni-kl-de.zoom.us/j/64005066783?pwd=eWJWWWhZZHBuQ2IwYkZXOWdHcVBNQT09

Tomorrow, Thursday, 3:30 (CET Amsterdam) we have Raymond Klein, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, as speaker in the Colloquium of the Center for Cognitive Science Kaiserslautern.
You are welcome to join, feel free to click here at 3:30:
Zoom Link: https://uni-kl-de.zoom.us/j/64005066783?pwd=eWJWWWhZZHBuQ2IwYkZXOWdHcVBNQ

Abstract:
This is a personal story about an exciting phenomenon with an interesting function. I will begin by describing two scientific contexts, one methodological and one conceptual, into which I will place it. The methodological context is about achieving ecologically valid conclusions about behaviour; the conceptual context is a taxonomy of attention. The phenomenon is inhibition of return (IOR). I will describe: its discovery by Posner and his proposal that it might function as a novelty seeking mechanism; my earliest experiments on IOR, supporting Posner’s functional attribution by showing that it was present in the aftermath of serial but not pop-out search; my period of belief that my demonstration was wrong; how research by others and my “Where’s Wally” experiment(s) changed my mind; the seminal research of Taylor and Ivanoff which laid the seed for Hilchey’s realization that there were/are (at least) two inhibitory aftereffects of orienting; the converging evidence and computationally explicit model that Redden and others have generated to confirm this realization. We believe that both forms can serve as a foraging facilitator. Let’s see if my story convinces you.