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:

Tech Ethics, Sustainability and Video Games: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Speaker: Thorsten Busch

Institutskolloquium des IZEW

09.06.2026, 12:00 - 13:00

Raum 113 - 116, Lothar-Mayer-Bau

Paper presentation: Using predictive multiplicity to measure individual performance within the AI Act

Speakers: Karolin Frohnapfel, Mara Seyfert

talks.tuebingen.ai

09.06.2026, 13:30

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

Brain substrates of communicative function understanding

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Speaker: Prof. Rosario Tomasello (FU Berlin)

09.06.2026, 12:15 - 13:15

Lecture Hall 23, Kupferbau

Induction and Indifference

Speaker: Prof. Sven Neth (University of Pittsburgh)

Philosophisches Seminar

 10.06.26, 12:15

Raum X, Alte Burse

Eine korpuslinguistische Untersuchung der verwendeten Begründungsrelationen in weil-Sätzen ; Der Vertiefungskurs Sprache für die gymnasiale Oberstufe - neue schulische Perspektiven auf das Ph

Speaker: Angelika Will (MA-Vortrag), Jörg Förstner (Universität of Stuttgart, Gymnasium Mutlangen)

Linguistik Abteilungskolloquium

10.06.2026, 16:15 - 17:45

Raum 415

The theta rhythm in predictive processing and mnemonic updating - a developmental perspective

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Moritz Köster (Uni. Regensburg)

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

10.06.2026, 16:15

Room C412, Sand 14

Same function, different geometry: Rethinking representational similarity

Speaker: Marvin Theiß, NIP

Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung Colloquium

11.06.2026, 14:00

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

 

Learning with two-compartment neurons

Speaker: Matthew Larkum (Institute of Biology, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)

TNC Neurocolloquium

11.06.2026, 16:15 - 17:45

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

Poster for EuroSLA on first results of TILDA project

Speaker: Kate Derkach

Linguistic Modelling and its Interfaces

12.06.2026, 10:15 - 11:45

Meeting room 8.308 in the IWM, and at times online

Adaptive Memory: Are survival processing and animacy effects driven by common underlying mechanisms?

Speaker: Edgar Erdfelder, Universität Mannheim

Modal and Amodal Cognition (FOR 2718)

15.06.2026, 10:00 - 11:00

Liebermeisterstr. 18, Room 318; online

Human Skill Augmentation in Robot-Assisted Surgery

Speaker: Dr. Alaa Eldin Abdelaal (Stanford University)

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

15.06.2026, 14:00 - 15:00

Hybrid - Webex plus in-person attendance in Carbon (3P02) 

 

RSA model of referring expression production and comprehension

Speaker: Ivan Rygaey

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

15.06.2026, 14:00 - 15:30

Room C412, Sand 14

Narratives and hypes?! What the Learning Sciences Says About Learing

Speaker: Jeff Greene

Institutskolloquium des IZEW

16.06.2026, 12:00 - 13:00

Raum 113 - 116, Lothar-Mayer-Bau

Are generative video models the path towards solving visual intelligence?

Speakers: Dr. Robert Geirhos, Google DeepMind, Zürich

Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung Colloquium

16.06.2026, 14:30 - 16:00

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

 

Rules, Artworks, and Games

Speaker: Prof. Kathrin Koslicki (Neuchâtel)

Philosophisches Seminar

17.06.26, 12:15

Raum X, Alte Burse

TBA

Speaker: Sophie Repp (Universität zu Köln)

Linguistik Abteilungskolloquium

17.06.2026, 16:15 - 17:45

Raum 415

How Neural is a Neural Foundation Model?

Speaker: Johannes Bertram, Machine Learning in Science

Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung Colloquium

17.06.2026, 14:30 - 16:00

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

 

A survay of two strands in proof-theoretic semantics

Speaker: Dr. Francesco Montesi (University of Napoli „Federico II“)

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Kolloquium

17.06.2026, 16:30 - 17:30

Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Zentrum, Doblerstr. 33, Raum 1.3 & online

The visual brain

Speaker: Semir Zeki (Cell & Developmental Biology, University College London, UK)

TNC Neurocolloquium

18.06.2026, 16:15 - 17:45

HNO Lecture Hall – HNO Hospital, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Str. 5; online

Aligning instruction with learner profiles: A meta-analysis of Aptitude-Treatmeant Interaction research in SLA

Speaker: Simón Ruiz

Linguistic Modelling and its Interfaces

19.06.2026, 10:15 - 11:45

Meeting room 8.308 in the IWM, and at times online

Memory interactions through memory stability during sleep in humans

Speaker: Masako Tamaki

CIN Exchanges

19.06.2026, 14:00

HIH, E2, Seminar Room, Otfried-Müller-Str. 27

 

TBA

Speaker: TBA

Modal and Amodal Cognition (FOR 2718)

22.06.2026, 10:00 - 11:00

Liebermeisterstr. 18, Room 318; online

Computational Thinking and Spatial Cognition

Speaker: Ghada Hassan

Cognitive Modeling Colloquium

22.06.2026, 14:00 - 15:30

Room C412, Sand 14

Pitfalls in Measuring Unconscious and Implicit Processing

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Speaker: Dr. Sascha Meyen (University of Tübingen)

23.06.2026, 12:15 - 13:15

Lecture Hall 23, Kupferbau

Computing the Cryosphere

Speaker: Suzana Alpsancar

Institutskolloquium des IZEW

23.06.2026, 12:00 - 13:00

Raum 113 - 116, Lothar-Mayer-Bau

TBA

Speaker: Alban Flachot, Justus-Leibig-Universität Giessen

Neuronale Informationsverarbeitung Colloquium

23.06.2026, 14:30 - 16:00

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

 

TBA

Speaker: TBA

Philosophisches Seminar

24.06.26, 12:15

Raum X, Alte Burse

TBA

Speaker: Ziyi Wang (MA-Arbeit); Jiamiao Qiao (MA-Arbeit)

Linguistik Abteilungskolloquium

24.06.2026, 16:15 - 17:45

Raum 415

TBA

Speaker: Daniel Yamins (Department of Psychology, Stanford University, USA)

TNC Neurocolloquium

25.06.2026, 16:15 - 17:45

HNO Lecture Hall – HNO Hospital, Elfriede-Aulhorn-Str. 5; online

TBA

Speaker: TBA

Linguistic Modelling and its Interfaces

26.06.2026, 10:15 - 11:45

Meeting room 8.308 in the IWM, and at times online

„Start up“ the SQUARC: Spatial-quantitativ associatios across modalities

Speaker: Lilly Roth, Universität Tübingen

Modal and Amodal Cognition (FOR 2718)

29.06.2026, 10:00 - 11:00

Liebermeisterstr. 18, Room 318; online

On the early visual cortex involvement in working memory

Cognitive Science Colloquium

Speaker:  Dr. Pablo Grassi (University of Tübingen)

30.06.2026, 12:15 - 13:15

Lecture Hall 23, Kupferbau