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:

Letters hide the truth from our eyes: English homophones have meaningfully different phonetic realizations

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Harald Baayen (IWM Tübingen) 

20.10.2026, 12:15 - 13:15

Lecture Hall 23, Kupferbau

Collective Data Protection

Speaker: Dr. Emmanouil Bougiakiotis

talks.tuebingen.ai

20.10.2026, 13:00

Maria von Linden Str. 6, 4th Floor Seminar room 

(Un)rigorous AI

Speaker: Alendra Olteanu

talks.tuebingen.ai

20.10.2026, 15:00

MPI IS, M-P-R 4, N0.002 and Webex

Metacognitive Efficiency in Learned Value-based Choice

Speaker: Sara Ershadmanesh

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

21.10.2026, 10:15 - 11:45

Room C412, Sand 14

Adaptive Decision-Making in Dynamic Multi-Timescale Enviroments

Speaker: Dr. Roxana Zeraati / Minerva Fast Track Group Leader MPI for Biological Cybernetics

TNC Neurocolloquium

22.10.2026, 16:15 - 18:00

Berg Nord, 600 HNO 2.311 (Hörsaal HNO)

Between Habermas and Hate Speech: Studying Human Behavior in Comment Sections

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Speaker:  Prof. Jürgen Buder, Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen 

27.10.2026, 12:15 - 13:15

Lecture Hall 23, Kupferbau

Scaling Intelligence the Human Way: Building a Shared Future for AI and Cog Sci

Speaker: Josh Tenenbaum

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

28.10.2026, 10:15 - 11:45

Room C412, Sand 14

In der Angst: Heideggers uneingestandene Dialektik von Sein und Nichts

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Thanassas (Athen)

Philosophisches Seminar

28.10.26, 12:00 - 14:00

Raum X, Alte Burse