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Colloquium

Current Topics in Perception and Cognition – Summer term 2025

The talks will take place in room F5 (Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10F) at 10 am, unless noted otherwise.

 

Date Speaker Title

 

30. April

Martin Vinck 

(ESI Frankfurt)

 

Neural mechanisms of top-down attention and predictive processing

 

7. May

Alessandro Tavano 

(Frankfurt)

 

Dynamics of perceptual inferences in audition

 

14. May

Vassilia Hatzitaki 

(Thessaloniki)

 

Using galvanic vestibular stimulation to probe vestibular function for spatial orientation and postural control

 

28. May

Tobias Heed 

(Salzburg)

 

Reference frames in "tactile localization": conceptual confusions

 

04. June

Ivan Camponogara 

(Dubai)

 

The interplay of vision, haptics, and audition in unisensory and multisensory action guidance

 

 

11. June

Gemma Roig 

(Frankfurt)

 

A Computational Study of Shaping Toddlers' Vision and Object Semantics through Caregiver Talk and Self-Supervised Learning

 

18. June

Moritz Wurm 

(Trento)

 

Is there an 'Action Observation Network' in the brain?

 

25. June

Cornelia Frank 

(Bremen)

 

Learning motor actions via imagery

 

2. July

Frank Tong 

(Vanderbilt)

 

Alignments and misalignments between convolutional neural network models and the human visual system

 

9. July

Mary Hayhoe 

(Austin)

 

Action decisions in natural vision  

 

16. July

4 pm

Renee Baillargeon

(Urbana-Champaign)

 

KOFFKA-award lecture

 

23. July

Marco Cicchini (Pisa)

 

Seeing forward: how the visual past shapes the visual future

 

Colloquium talks in past semesters