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 |
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15ᵗʰ October |
Patrick Haggard (London) |
Understanding the human sense of agency |
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29ᵗʰ October |
Aenne Brielmann |
Decoding the dynamics of sensory pleasure - appeal, boredom, and creativity |
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05ᵗʰ November |
Betina Ip (Oxford) |
The neurochemistry of the human binocular visual system |
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12ᵗʰ November |
Martin Schrimpf (Lausanne) |
Vision and language in brains and machines |
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19ᵗʰ November |
Ercan Altinsoy (Dresden) |
Haptic Displays for high-fidelity haptic feedback to enhance multimodal interaction
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26ᵗʰ November |
Lina Teichmann (Geneva) |
From light to perception: Probing the temporal evolution of color vision |
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3ʳᵈ December |
George Malcolm (Norwich) |
Scene processing: development and the influence of expectations |
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10ᵗʰ December |
Sebastian Musslick |
Automated scientific discovery of mind and brain |
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17ᵗʰ December |
Olivier Collignon |
Cross-modal perception and plasticity |
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14ᵗʰ January |
Tessa Dekker |
Neural plasticity in development, deprivation, and sight rescue |
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21ᵗʰ January |
Heiko Schütt |
Comparing visual processing in models and the brain |
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28ᵗʰ January |
Helen Blank (Bochum) |
I expected you! Predictive processes in face recognition |
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04ᵗʰ February |
Pieter Medendorp (Nijmegen)
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Embodied intelligence: how humans steer their body around |
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11ᵗʰ February |
Rafal Mantiuk (Cambridge)
|
Foundation models of human and computer vision |













