Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany

23 - 24 January 2020

Call for Posters/Talks (from PhDs/Post-Docs)

Learning, planning, and control in a monolithic neural event inference

Butz, M., Bilkey, D., Humaidan, D., Knott, A., & Otte, S.: Learning, planning, and control in a monolithic neural event inference architecture. Neural Networks, Vol. 117, September 2019, 135-144.

Hands Ahead in Mind and Motion: Active Inference in Peripersonal Hand Space

Lohmann, J., Belardinelli, A., Butz, M. V.: Hands ahead in mind and motion: Active inference in Peripersonal Hand Space. Vision 2019, 3(2), 15

Brain Control

KI ohne neuronales Netz

16.11. & 17.11.2018 – University of Tübingen, Germany

International Workshop at the RTG 1808:

Ambiguity as (Information) Gaps: Processes of Creation and Resolution

The program

Congratulations, Fabian Schrodt!

Our former PhD student Fabian Schrodt obtained his PhD successfully.

How Deep Is Your SNAC?

Lohmann, J., Schroeder, Ph. A., Nuerk, H.-Chr., Butz, M. V. (2018): How Deep Is Your SNAC? Front. Psychol. 01 May 2018

Mental space maps into the future

Belardinelli, A., Lohmann, J., Farnè, A., & Butz, M. V. (2018): Mental space maps into the future. Cognition, Vol. 176, July 2018, pages 65-73

Post-Doc Position Available: Cognitive Modeling, Ambiguity & Humanities

Game and Research - BrainControl is available!

A first version of our new, interactive game-AI concept is available online.

Watch the trailer on our YouTube channel.

Try it out, have fun, and use your imagination :-)

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and all the best for 2018!

Training Computational Thinking: Game-Based Unplugged and Plugged-in Activities in Primary School

CogSci 2017, London

Talks/Paper

Christian Gumbsch, Sebastian Otte, Martin Butz

A Computational Model for the Dynamical Learning of Event Taxonomies

Thomas Hinterecker, Caroline Leroy, Maximilian E. Kirschhock, Mintao Zhao, Martin Butz, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Tobias Meilinger

Reference Systems in Spatial Memory for Vertical Locations

Poster

Anna Belardinelli, Johannes Lohmann, Martin Butz

Projecting space into the future: peripersonal space remaps in anticipation of an object manipulation

Symposia

Wayne Gray, Ray Perez, Martin Butz, Stuart Reeves, Matthew Sangster, Tom Stafford, Fernand Gobet

Game-XP: Action Games as Cognitive Science Paradigms

Congratulations, Sebastian Otte!

Our former PhD student Sebastian Otte obtained his PhD successfully.

Please notice the following job offer:

PhD Positions on Optimizing Perception and Interaction with Augmented Reality at the University of Tübingen, Germany

1. The Cognitive Modeling team will be present at CogSci 2017 - presenting four posters and two talks - come by and talk to us!
2. A first book review was published in the Journal of Perception on our book "How the Mind Comes Into Being: Introducing Cognitive Science from a Functional and Computational Perspective", written by Heath E. Matheson.
3. Lab director Martin Butz received the Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation - and is thus from now on part of the international Humboldt Network.

Please take note of the following job offer:

1 PhD Position (TV-L E13, 65%)

Call for Applications (deadline: 05. June 2017)

Lost in space

Lohmann, J., & Butz, M. V. (2017). Lost in space: multisensory conflict yields adaptation in spatial representations across frames of reference. Cognitive Processing, (), 1-18. doi:10.1007/s10339-017-0798-5

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10339-017-0798-5

Mario Becomes Cognitive

Schrodt, F., Kneissler, J., Ehrenfeld, S., & Butz, M. V. (2017). Mario Becomes Cognitive. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9 (2), 1-31. doi:10.1111/tops.12252

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1756-8765/earlyview

New article!

Kloss, A., Kappler, D., Lensch, H. P. A., Butz, M. V., Schaal, S., & Blog, J. (2016). Learning where to search using visual attention. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 5238-5245, doi: 10.1109/IROS.2016.7759770

Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Ich denke, also mache ich Voraussagen

Predictive Coding

New article!

Butz, M. V. (2016). Towards a Unified Sub-Symbolic Computational Theory of Cognition. Front. Psychol.7:925. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00925

The new publication is available online!

Belardinelli, A., Barabas, M., Himmelbach, M., & Butz, M. V. (2016). Anticipatory eye fixations reveal tool knowledge for tool interaction. Exp Brain Res, April 2016, Springer. doi: 10.1007/s00221-016-4646-0

New paper is online!

Otte, S., Butz, M. V., Koryakin, D., Becker, F., Liwicki, M., & Zell, A. (2016):

Optimizing recurrent reservoirs with neuro-evolution.

Neurocomputing, Vol. 192, Juni 2016, 128 - 138. doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.01.088

New article!

Schroeder, P. A., Lohmann, J., Butz, M. V., & Plewnia, C. (2015): Behavioral bias for food reflected in hand movements: A preliminary study with healty subjects. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking.
Online Ahead of Print: November 12, 2015, doi: 10.1089/cyber.2015.0311

New articles are published!

Herbort, O., & Butz, M. V. (2015). Planning grasps for object manipulation: integrating internal preferences and external constrains. Cognitive Processing. doi: 10.1007/s10339-015-0703-7

Butz, M. V., Geirhos, R., & Kneissler, J.: An Automatized Heider-Simmel Story Generation Tool. Proceedings of the 37^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2861

Belardinelli, A., & Butz, M. V. (2015). It’s all in the eye: multiple orders of motor planning in gaze control. Proceedings of the 37^th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2851.

• New articles published:

Herbort, O., Butz, M. V., & Kunde, W. (2014). The Contribution of Cognitive, Kinematik and Dynamic Factors to Anticipatory Grasp Selection. Experimental Brain Research. doi: 10.1007/s00221-014-3489-5

Butz, M. V., Kutter, E., & Lorenz, C. (in press). Rubber Hand Illusion Affects Join Angle Perception, PLoS ONE, PONE-D-13-39143

A new book publication

Stalph, P. (2014). Analysis and Design of Machine Learning Techniques. Evolutionary Solutions for Regression, Prediction, and Control Problems. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

• New article is published

Ehrenfeld, St., Herbort, O., Butz, M. V. (2013). Modular neuron-based body estimation: Maintaining consistency ofer different limbs, modalities, and frames of reference. Front. Comput. Neurosci 7, 148, doi: 10.3389/fncom.2013.00148

• New article has been published

Martin V. Butz (2013): Separating goals from behavioral control: Implications from learning predictive modularizations. New Ideas in Psychology 31, 302-312, doi: 10j.1016/j.newideapsych.2013.04.001

• Accepted for publication

Kneissler, J., & P. Stalph, J. Drugowitsch, M. Butz (2013): Filtering Sensory Information with XCSF: Improving Learning Robustness and Robot Arm Control Performance. Evolutionary Computation, doi:10.1162/EVCO_a_00108

• Congratulations!

Our colleague Patrick Stalph has gotten a PhD!

Pat, our congratulations! All the best!

• New article has been published

Ehrenfeld, St., & Butz, M.V.

The modular modality frame model: continuous body state estimation and plausibility-weighted information fusion. Biological Cybernetics, 107 (1), 61-82. doi: 10.1007/s00422-012-0526-2

• New article is published

O. Herbort & M. V. Butz

Too good to be true? Ideomotor theory from a computational perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 494. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00494

A. Belardinelli, A. Carbone & W. X. Schneider

"Classification of multiscale spatiotemporal energy features for video segmentation and dynamic objects prioritisation." Pattern Recognition Letters.

• KogWis 2o14

Die Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaften (GK) hat Martin Butz, Lehrstuhlinhaber der Kognitiven Modellierung an der Universität Tübingen, zum Ausrichter für die KogWis 2014 gewählt. Die 12. Fachtagung der GK wird vom 29. September bis 2. Oktober 2014 in Tübingen stattfinden. Die Universität Tübingen freut sich, etwa 200 Wissenschaftler aus der Kognitiven Psychologie, der Künstlichen Intelligenz, der Linguistik, den Neurowissenschaften, der Philosophie und der Anthropologie empfangen zu dürfen.

• KogWis 2014

The biannual conference of the German Cognitive Science Society (GK) will take place from 29^th until 2^nd october 2014 at Tübingen, one of Europe’s oldest university cities. Martin Butz, full professor of the department Cognitive Modeling at the University of Tübingen, was elected to host the meeting.

• Fellowship

We are glad to inform that our staff member PHd (cand.) Stephan Ehrenfeld got a grant for 2 years from the German "Landesgraduiertenförderung Baden-Württemberg".

• New article has been published

The article "Balanced echo state networks" (Danil Koryakin, Johannes Lohmann and Martin V. Butz) has now been published in Neural Networks: Volume 36 (2012), 35-45, doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2012.08.008

• Paper ICANN 2012 has been published

Danil Koryakin and Martin V. Butz

"Reservoir sizes and feedback weights interact non-linearly in echo state networks."

• New article has been published

The article "Modeling body state-dependent multisensory ingegration" (Martin V.. Butz, Anna Belardinelli and Stephan Ehrenfeld) has now been published in the following paginated issue of Cognitive Processing: Volume 13, Issue 1 (2012), Page 113-116.

• Best Paper Award: GBML, GECCO 2012, Philadelphia, USA

Jan Kneissler, Patrick O. Stalph, Jan Drugowitsch, Martin V. Butz

"Filtering Sensory Information with XCSF: Improving Learning Robustness and Control Performance"

Patrick O. Stalph, Martin V. Butz

"Guided Evolution in XCSF"

• Paper has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012, Portugal)

• New article has been published

The article "Function approximation with LWPR and XCSF: a comparative study" has now been published in the issue of Evolutionary Intelligence: Volume 5, Issue 2 (2012), Page 103-116.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/q7542l82477x0111/

• The new publications are now available online

The article "The continuous end-state comfort effect: weighted integration of multiple biases" (Oliver Herbort and Martin V. Butz) has now been published in the following paginated issue of Psychological Research: Volume 76, Issue 3 (2012), Page 345-363.

http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s00426-011-0334-7

The article "Learning local linear Jacobians for flexible and adaptive robot arm control" (Patrick O. Stalph and Martin V. Butz) has now been published in the following paginated issue of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines: Volume 13, Issue 2 (2012), Page 137-157

http://www.springerlink.com/content/35441772qm37w31k/

• Paper has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV/2012), Spain

• Accepted as full papers for GECCO 2012

• Cooptation in Psychology, University of Tuebingen

• Meeting & Lunch - 6th March, 12.00 a.m., room C 424

• Lecture - 8 of March, in the afternoon (after Brown Bag Lunch)

• New staff

• Parental leave

• Research Stay

• New paper

• CogSys, Febr. 22 -23, 2012,TU Vienna, Austria

• EUCoglll Members, Febr. 22 - 24, 2012