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:

The biology of cone photoreceptors

Speaker: Wei Li

TNC Neurocolloquium

16.07.2026, 16:15 - 17:45

MV Lecture Hall – Institutes of Microbiology and Virology, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Str. 6; online

Social vocal learning in parrots.

Speaker: Anand Krishnan

InstitutsSeminar NeuroBiologie

16.07.2026, 16:15 - 17:30

Auf der Morgenstelle 28, E-Bau, dritter Stock, N12

Comparing the behavior of GGP constructs in reading material and learner data

Speaker: Sofia Kathmann

Linguistic Modelling and its Interfaces

17.07.2026, 10:15 - 11:45

Meeting room 8.308 in the IWM, and at times online

Vector Symbolic Algebras: Legible Linear Algebra

Speaker: Dr. Michael Furlong (National Research Council of Canada / University of Waterloo Collaboration Centre)

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

17.07.2026, 12:00

Pfaffenwaldring 5a (SimTech), Room 0.009, Campus Vaihingen of the University of Stuttgart

 

Close enough to crave, far enough to control

Speaker: Speaker: Rabia Dilawar (B2), Universität Tübingen

Modal and Amodal Cognition (FOR 2718)

20.07.2026, 10:00 - 11:00

Liebermeisterstr. 18, Room 318; online

Metacognition and contested topics: Lesson from climate change and COVID-19

Speaker: Dr. Helen Fischer

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

20.06.2026, 14:00 - 15:30

Room C412, Sand 14

Defamation by LLMs: How the law captures AI hallucinations and what this tells us about the approach to technology regulation in the EU

Speaker: Kai Ebert (University Viadrina)

talks.tuebingen.ai

21.07.2026, 13:30

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

Comparing Frequentist and Bayesian Hypothesis Tests Using Regions of Decision

Speaker: Frieder Göppert, Experimental Cognitive Science

Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung Colloquium

21.07.2026, 14:00

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

 

Sensing the Enviroment and Self in Mammals and Cephalopods

Speaker: Kou-Sheng Lee

CIN Exchanges

22.07.2026, 14:00

HIH, E2, Seminar Room (2.310), Otfried-Müller-Str. 27

 

Speech in context: Neural computations for speech comprehension

Speaker: Dr. Yulia Oganian

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

27.06.2026, 14:00 - 15:30

Room C412, Sand 14

Intelligent Construction & Building Systems

Speaker: Samuel Leder, Xiliu Lang

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

28.07.2026, 11:00 - 13:00

Copper

 

Room 6.309 presents the Project AI-LIT: A Mobile App for Authentic Language Support in Early Education

Linguistic Modelling and its Interfaces

31.07.2026, 10:15 - 11:45

Meeting room 8.308 in the IWM, and at times online