Cognitive Science Colloquium

The Cognitive Science Colloquium is the core colloquium of our Cognitive Science Center. It typically takes place on Tuesdays at 12 c.t. during the lecture period. Click here for the…

Program of the Cognitive Science Colloquium in the summer term 2026

Apart from the Cognitive Science Colloquium, there are many other Cognitive Science related talks / talk series in Tübingen (see “Upcoming talks of the current month” below). A .pdf-overview of all the talks in the current month can also be downloaded here

Information for Cognitive Science bachelor students: the talks listed below that are marked via gray boxes can be recognized in the module “Forschungskolloquium Kognitionswissenschaft” (KOGM3230).

If you miss a relevant talk or talk series in our list or if you are interested in subscribing to our mailing list “CogSci_talks” to receive regular updates please feel free to contact us (contact information see box “Contact” on the right panel of this website).

From February 2026 on, the list below will not contain colloquia of specific research groups anymore unless we are told do so; please contact us if you would like your colloquium to be listed.

Upcoming talks of the current month:

Cognitive Processing of Uncertain Information

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Speaker: Dr. Manuela Glaser (IWM Tübingen)

28.04.2026, 12:15 - 13:15

Lecture Hall 23, Kupferbau

Measuring alignment and interpretability of deep visual models

Speaker: Thomas Klein, NIP

Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung Colloquium

28.04.2026, 14:30 - 16:00

10-10/A12 (erster Stock), Maria-von-Linden-Str.6; online

 

Philosophische Polemik, philosophische Irenik. Die Position Kant.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gunnar Hindrichs (Basel)

Philosophisches Seminar

 29.04.26, 12:00

Raum X, Alte Burse

Decoding the neural processing of speech

Speaker: Tobias Reichenbach

CIN Exchanges

29.04.2026, 14:00

HIH, E2, Seminar Room, Otfried-Müller-Str. 27

 

The structure of the determinacy challenge for moderate mathematical realism (and some suggestions on how to solve it)

Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Speitel

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Kolloquium

29.04.2026, 16:30 - 17:30

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Zentrum, Doblerstr. 33, Raum 1.3 & online

Scalable Computational Proteomics: From Open Data to New Biological Insights

Speaker: Dr. Timo Sachsenberg

04.05.2026, 12:30

MvL6 Lecture Hall

Modeling event-predictive anticipatroy inference in crossmodal interactions

Speaker: Johanna Theuer

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

04.05.2026, 14:00 - 15:30

Room C412, Sand 14

NeuroAI Symposium 2026

Speakers: Katharina Dobs (University of Giessen), Jascha Achterberg (University of Oxford), Martin Hebart (Ma Planck CBS Leipzig), Constantin Rothkopf (TU Darmstadt)

talks.tuebingen.ai

05.05.2026, 08:30

Cyber valley campus building (MvL1), Tübingen, Germany

Multimodal interaction across language

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Speaker: Dr. Paul Rubio-Fernandez (MPI Nijmegen)

05.05.2026, 12:15 - 13:15

Lecture Hall 23, Kupferbau

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Philosophisches Seminar

06.05.26, 12:00

Raum X, Alte Burse

Causal Inferences Are Driven by Noun Concept Specificity: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading and Large Language Model Surprisal

Speaker: Fabian Schlotterbeck (Universität Tübingen)

Linguistik Abteilungskolloquium

06.05.2026, 16:15 - 17:45

Raum 415

TAPPA meeting May

talks.tuebingen.ai

07.05.2026, 17:00

MPI-IS, N1.028

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Linguistic Modelling and its Interfaces

08.05.2026, 10:00 - 12:00

Meeting room 8.308 in the IWM, and at times online

Confirmation Biases and Obedience in LLMs

Speaker: Mudar Adas

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

11.05.2026, 14:00 - 15:30

Room C412, Sand 14

Hype and sociotechnical fictions

Speaker: Andreu Belsunces Gocalves

Institutskolloquium des IZEW

12.05.2026, 12:00 - 13:00

Raum 113 - 116, Lothar-Mayer-Bau

Progress on understanding and modelling human pattern perception

Speakers: Maryam Jannati, NIP & Jannik Reichert, NIP

Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung Colloquium

12.05.2026, 14:30 - 16:00

10-10/A12 (erster Stock), Maria-von-Linden-Str.6; online

 

Knowledge and Guardianship in Plato’s Republic

Speaker: Prof. Rachel Barney (Toronto)

Philosophisches Seminar

13.05.26, 12:00

Raum X, Alte Burse

Reconsindering the Cognitive Foundations of Computational Thinking

Speaker: Ghada Hassan

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

18.05.2026, 14:00 - 15:30

Room C412, Sand 14

Contextualization in the ARC challenge

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Speaker: Prof. Martin Butz (University of Tübingen)

19.05.2026, 12:15 - 13:15

HS 23, Kupferbau

Measuring alignment and interpretability of deep vision models

Speaker: Thomas Klein, NIP

Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung Colloquium

19.05.2026, 14:30 - 16:00

10-10/A12 (erster Stock), Maria-von-Linden-Str.6; online

 

Das Problem der Induktion und Reichenbachs Lösung

Speaker: Prof. Jochen Briesen (Heidelberg)

Philosophisches Seminar

20.05.26, 12:00

Raum X, Alte Burse

Rethinking representational similarity as evidene for shared computation: Function-preserving manipulatons in DNNs

Speaker: Marvin Thieß, NIP

Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung Colloquium

21.05.2026, 14:30 - 16:00

10-10/A12 (erster Stock), Maria-von-Linden-Str.6; online

 

Adult Narrative Skills and Their Link to Math Word Problem Solving

Speaker: Gabriella Daróczy

Linguistic Modelling and its Interfaces

22.05.2026, 10:00 - 12:00

Meeting room 8.308 in the IWM, and at times online

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Philosophisches Seminar

27.05.26, 12:00

Raum X, Alte Burse

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Linguistic Modelling and its Interfaces

29.05.2026, 10:00 - 12:00

Meeting room 8.308 in the IWM, and at times online