1st GK Doctoral Symposium on Cognitive Science
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany
23 - 24 January 2020
Call for Posters/Talks (from PhDs/Post-Docs)
November 2019
Climate Strike: 29th of November, 2019, 11:00, Uhlandstrasse.
Offener Brief an Rektor Engler.
Hochschulstreikwoche: Lectures, Workshops, and Seminars
September 2019
Best paper award at ICANN 2019 in Munich for our paper
S. Otte, P. Rubisch, and M. V. Butz: Gradient-Based Learning of Compositional Dynamics with Modular RNNs, in Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning – ICANN 2019, September 2019, pp. 484–496.
June 2019
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.
April 2019
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
Februar 2019
November 2018
16.11. & 17.11.2018 – University of Tübingen, Germany
International Workshop at the RTG 1808:
Ambiguity as (Information) Gaps: Processes of Creation and Resolution
May 2018
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
March 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
January 2018
Post-Doc Position Available: Cognitive Modeling, Ambiguity & Humanities
December 2017
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!
October 2017
Training Computational Thinking: Game-Based Unplugged and Plugged-in Activities in Primary School
Tsarava, K., Moeller, K., Pinkwart, N., Butz, M. V., Trautwein, U., & Ninaus, M. (2017). Training Computational Thinking: Game-Based Unplugged and Plugged-in Activities in Primary School. 11th European Conference on Game-Based Learning, ECGBL 2017, 687.
September 2017
Which structures are out there?
Butz, M. V. (2017). Which structures are out there? Learning predictive compositional concepts based on social sensorimotor explorations. In T. Metzinger, & W. Wiese (Eds.), Philosophy and Predictive Processing: 8. Frankfurt am Main: MIND Group. doi:10.15502/9783958573093
August 2017
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
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
July 2017
Congratulations, Johannes Lohmann!
Our former PhD student Johannes Lohmann obtained his PhD successfully.
June 2017
- The Cognitive Modeling team will be present at CogSci 2017 - presenting four posters and two talks - come by and talk to us!
- 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.
- 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.
May 2017
Please take note of the following job offer:
April 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
January 2017
Have a look at our new book:
Martin V. Butz and Esther. F. Kutter
How the mind comes into being
Introducing Cognitive Science from a Functional and Computational Perspective
Oxford University Press, 2017
ISBN 978-0-19-873969-2
In Touch with Mental Rotation
Lohmann, J., Rolke, B., & Butz, M. V. (2017). In Touch with Mental Rotation: Interactions between Mental and Tactile Rotations and Motor Responses. Experimental Brain Research. doi:10.1007/s00221-016-4861-8
December 2016
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
October 2016
Neue Zürcher Zeitung: Ich denke, also mache ich Voraussagen
September 2016
Best Paper Awards!
Best Paper Award (Brain Products) 2016
Johannes Lohmann, Martin Butz:
Multisensory Conflict Yields Adaptation
in Peripersonal and Extrapersonal Space
Best Paper Award GK 2014-2016
Fabian Schrodt, Martin Butz:
Just Imagine! Learning to Emulate and Infer Actions
with a Stochastic Generative Architecture
June 2016
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
April 2016
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
March 2016
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
February 2016
TV coverage of our Social Mario AI Project.
The new publication is now available online
Schrodt, F., & Butz, M. V. (2016):
Just Imagine! Learning to Emulate and Infer Actions with a Stochastic Generative Architecture.
Front. Rob. AI 3:5. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2016.00005
January 2016
New article is published:
Belardinelli, A., Stepper, M. Y., & Butz, M. V. (2016):
It's in the eyes: Planning precise manual actions before execution.
Journal of Vision, January 2016, 18. doi 10.1167/16.1.18
October 2015
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
August 2015
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 37th 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 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2851.
July 2015
New article is published:
Schrodt, F., Layher, G., Neumann, H., & Butz, M. V. (2015):
Embodied learning of a generative neural model for biological motion perception and inference.
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00079
May 2015
New article published:
Kneissler, J., Drugowitsch, J., Friston, K., & Butz, M. V. (2015):
Simultaneous Learning and Filtering without Delusions: A Bayes-Optimal Derivation of Combining Predictive Inference and Adaptive Filtering.
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2015.00047
April 2015
Mario Lives Video wins People's Choice Award at AAAI Conference
Receiving about 1M Clicks and more than 5k Thumbs Up on YouTube, our "Mario Lives" video has now also won the People's Choice award at the AAAI Conference 2015 in Austin, TX.
Press Coverage on Spiegel Online (in German):
Further, world-wide coverage:
http://time.com/3674972/mario-lives-artificial-intelligence/
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/mario-lives-and-learns-1.2074203
December 2014
Congratulations, Andreas Alin!
Our former PhD student Andreas Alin obtained his PhD successfully.
Andreas, all the best to you - we'll miss you!
• New articles published:
Belardinelli, A., Herbort, O., & Butz, M. V. (2014). Goal-oriented gaze strategies afforded by object interaction. Vision Research. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.11.003
Layher, G., Schrodt, F., Butz, M. V., & Neumann, H. (2014). Adaptive learning in a compartmental model of visual cortex - how feedback enables stable category learning and refinement. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01287
Kneissler, J., Stalph, P. O., Drugowitsch, J., & Butz, M. V. (2014). Filtering sensory information with XCSF: Improving learning robustness and robot arm control performance. Evolutionary Computation, 22, 139-158. doi: 10.1162/EVCO_a_00108
Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Meeting of the German Cognitive Science Society are online!
March 2014
• 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.
October 2013
• 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
September 2013
• 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
July 2013
• 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!
January 2013
• 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
October 2012
• 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 29th until 2nd 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".
September 2012
• 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."
August 2012
• 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.
July 2012
• 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
• Paper has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012, Portugal)
Martin V. Butz, Stephan Ehrenfeld
"Autonomous failure detection and multimodal sensor fusion in a modular arm model"
June 2012
• 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.
May 2012
• 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
March 2012
• Paper has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV/2012), Spain
Andreas Alin, Martin V. Butz, Jannik Fritsch
"Incorporating Environmental Knowledge into Bayesian Filtering using Attractor Functions"
• Accepted as full papers for GECCO 2012
Patrick O. Stalph & Martin V. Butz
"Guided Evolution in XCSF"
Jan Kneissler, Patrick O. Stalph, Jan Drugowitsch & Martin V. Butz
"Filtering Sensory Information with XCSF: Improving Learning Robustness and Control Performance"
• The new publication is now available online
Patrick O. Stalph, Xavier Llorà, David E. Goldberg, Martin V. Butz
"Resource management and scalability of the XCSF learning
classifier system"
• Cooptation in Psychology, University of Tuebingen
Martin V. Butz, full professor at the department of Computer Science, is now co-opted in both departments: Computer Science and Psychology (Faculty of Science).
• Meeting & Lunch - 6th March, 12.00 a.m., room C 424
Presentation of the chairs Computer Graphics (Prof. Hendrik Lensch), Cognitive Modeling (Prof. Martin Butz) and Media Informatics (Prof. Andreas Schilling).
• Lecture - 8 of March, in the afternoon (after Brown Bag Lunch)
Lecture of Daniel Zöllner about his master's thesis: "Zur Philosophischen Rezeption Jean Gebsers". After that he will introduce the schedule of his planned dissertation: "Problems of Grounded Cognition: Grounding Concepts and Consciousness".
February 2012
• New staff
The chair of Cognitive Modeling got a new colleague. We are glad to welcome Dr. Anna Belardinelli in Tübingen (previously University of Bielefeld).
• Parental leave
Our colleague Dr. Jan Kneissler will be away from Cognitive Modeling for 4 months. Undoubtedly he'll have a good time with his familiy! Even now we are delighted to welcome him back in june 2012.
• Research Stay
Because of university research Dr. Oliver Herbort will stay until April 2012 at State College, PA, USA working with Professor David Rosenbaum (Department of Psychology).
http://psych.la.psu.edu/directory/faculty-bios/rosenbaum.html
• New paper
The following paper is published:
• CogSys, Febr. 22 -23, 2012,TU Vienna, Austria
• EUCoglll Members, Febr. 22 - 24, 2012
same location (conference will be held in conjunction with CogSys 2012)
Several team members from Cognitive Modeling will be there.