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Colloquium

Current Topics in Perception and Cognition – Winter term 2025/2026

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

 

Date Speaker Title

 

15ᵗʰ October

Patrick Haggard

(London)

 

Understanding the human sense of agency

 

29ᵗʰ October

Aenne Brielmann  

(Liverpool)

 

Decoding the dynamics of sensory pleasure - appeal, boredom, and creativity

 

05ᵗʰ November

Betina Ip 

(Oxford)

 

The neurochemistry of the human binocular visual system

 

12ᵗʰ November

Martin Schrimpf 

(Lausanne)

 

Vision and language in brains and machines

 

19ᵗʰ November

Ercan Altinsoy  

(Dresden)

 

Haptic Displays for high-fidelity haptic feedback to enhance multimodal interaction

 

 

26ᵗʰ November

Lina Teichmann 

(Geneva)

 

From light to perception: Probing the temporal evolution of color vision

 

3ʳᵈ December

George Malcolm

(Norwich)

 

 Scene processing: development and the influence of expectations

 

10ᵗʰ December

Sebastian Musslick 

(Osnabrück)

 

Automated scientific discovery of mind and brain 

 

17ᵗʰ December

Olivier Collignon 

(UC Louvain)

 

Cross-modal perception and plasticity

 

14ᵗʰ January

Tessa Dekker 

(UCL London)

 

Neural plasticity in development, deprivation, and sight rescue

 

21ᵗʰ January

Heiko Schütt

(Luxemburg)

 

Comparing visual processing in models and the brain

 

28ᵗʰ January

Helen Blank

(Bochum)

 

I expected you! Predictive processes in face recognition 

 

04ᵗʰ February

Pieter Medendorp (Nijmegen)

 

 

Embodied intelligence: how humans steer their body around

 

11ᵗʰ February

Rafal Mantiuk (Cambridge)

 

 

Foundation models of human and computer vision

 

Colloquium talks in past semesters