Dr. phil. Oliver Herbort

Computer Science, Cognitive Modeling
University of Tübingen
Sand 14
72076 Tübingen
Germany

Publications

Herbort, O. (in press). Optimal versus Heuristic Planning of Object Manipulations: A Review and a Computational Model of the Continuous End-state Comfort Effect. New Ideas in Psychology.
Lohmann, J., Herbort, O., & Butz, M.V. (2013): Modeling the temporal dynamics of visual working memory. Cognitive Systems Research. doi: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2012.12.009

Herbort, O., & Butz, M. V. (2012). Too good to be true? Ideomotor theory from a computational perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 494. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00494
Herbort, O., & Butz, M. V. (2012). The continuous end-state comfort effect: weighted integration of multiple biases. Psychological Research, 76(3), 345-363. doi: 10.1007/s00426-011-0334-7
Herbort, O., Koning, A., van Uem, J., & Meulenbroek, R. G. J. (2012). The End-State Comfort Effect Facilitates Joint Action. Acta Psychologica, 139(3), 404-416. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2012.01.001
Herbort, O. (2012). Where to grasp a tool? Task-dependent adjustments of tool transformations by tool users. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 220(1):37-43. doi: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000089 (supplementary video file)
Kirsch, W., Herbort, O., Butz, M.V., & Kunde, W. (2012). Influence of Motor Planning on Distance Perception within the Peripersonal space. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34880. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034880 pdf.

Herbort, O., Butz, M. V., & Pedersen G. (2010). The SURE REACH Model for Motor Learning and Control of a Redundant Arm: From Modeling Human Behavior to Applications in Robots. In J. Peters and O. Sigaud (Eds.), From motor to interaction learning in robots (pp 85-106). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02565_10

Lohmann, J., Herbort, O., Wagener, A., & Kiesel, A. (2009). Anticipation of time spans: new data from the foreperiod paradigm and the adaptation of a computational model. In G. Pezzulo, M. V. Butz, O. Sigaud, G. Baldassarre (Eds.), Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems: From Psychological Theories to Artificial Cognitive Systems (pp. 170-187). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-02565-5

Butz, M. V., & Herbort, O. (2008). Context-dependent predictions and cognitive arm control with XCSF. Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 10, 1357-1364. (best paper award)

Butz, M. V., Herbort, O., Pezzulo, G. (2008). Anticipatory, goal-directed behavior. In G. Pezzulo, M. V. Butz, C. Castelfranchi, & R. Falcone (Eds.), The Challenge of Anticipation: A Unifying Framework for the Analysis and Design of Artificial Cognitive Systems (pp. 85-113). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

Butz, M. V., Reif, K., & Herbort, O. (2008). Bridging the gap: learning sensorimotor-linked population codes for planning and motor control. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Systems 2008.

Herbort, O., Butz, M. V., & Hoffmann, J. (2008). Multimodal goal representations and feedback in hierarchical motor control. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Systems 2008.

Butz, M. V., Herbort, O., & Hoffmann, J. (2007). Exploiting redundancy for flexible behavior: unsupervised learning in a modular sensorimotor control architecture. Psychological Review, 114(4), 1015-1046. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.114.4.1015

Butz, M. V., Lenhard, A., & Herbort, O. (2007). Emergent effector-independent internal spaces: adaptation and intermanual learning transfer in humans and neural networks. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2007, 20, 1970-1975.

Herbort, O., & Butz, M. V. (2007). Encoding complete body models enable task dependent optimal behavior. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2007, 20, 1639-1944.

Herbort, O., Ognibene, D., Butz, M. V., & Baldassarre, G. (2007). Learning to select targets within targets in reaching tasks. Proceedings of the 6th International IEEE Conference on Development and Learning 2007, 6, 7-12.

Hoffmann, J., Berner, M., Butz, M. V., Herbort, O., Kiesel, A., Kunde, W., Lenhard, A. (2007). Explorations of Anticipative Behavioral Control (ABC): A report from the cognitive psychology unit of the University of Würzburg. Cognitive Processing, 8(2), 132-142.

Hoffmann, J., Butz, M. V., Lenhard, A., Herbort, O., & Kiesel, A. (2007). Spekulationen zur Struktur ideomotorischer Beziehungen (Speculations about the structure of ideomotor relations). Zeitschrift für Sportpsychologie, 14(3), 95-103.

Herbort, O., Butz, M. V., & Hoffmann, J. (2005). Towards an adaptive hierarchical anticipatory behavioral control system. In C. Castelfranchi, C. Balkenius, M. V. Butz, & A. Ortony (Eds.), From reactive to anticipatory cognitive embodied systems: Papers from the AAAI fall symposium (p. 83-90), Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press.

Herbort, O., Butz, M. V., & Hoffmann, J. (2005). Towards the advantages of hierarchical anticipatory behavioral control. In K. Opwis & I.-K. Penner (Eds), Proceedings of KogWis?05 the german cognitive science conference (p.77-82). Basel: Schwabe.

Oertel, K., Schultz, R., Blech, M., Herbort, O., Voskamp, J., & Urban, B. (2005). EmoTetris for recognition of affective states. In G. Salvendy (Ed.), Proceedings of HCI International 2005. Mawhaw, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.