Cognitive Modeling

SummerTerm 2026       Cognitive Modeling Colloquium 

 

The Cognitive Modeling Colloquium takes place on Monday from 14:00 to 15:30 in room C 412, Sand 14, during the lecture period. Please feel free to drop by! This following table gives an overview and shows which sessions are open for students. 

Date/room
Speaker 
Title and abstract
Participation
April 13AllLab coordination and discussion 
April 20Max MittenbühlerSurprise as a Normative Principle for the Structure and Function of Cognitive ControlOpen to students
April 27Manuel TraubActive Local Image Processing in Deep Vision NetworksOpen to students
May 04Johanan TheuerModeling event-predictive anticipatory inference in crossmodal interactionsOpen to students
May 11Mudar AdasConfirmation Biases and Obedience in LLMsOpen to students
May 18
(start at 14:30)
Maria Kovtun /
Erik Ayari
ATTENTION: Start at 14:30
Lab-project: Trends of problem-solving capabilities and limits of current LLMs 
Lab-project: Semantic Allocation in Ordered Bottlenecks: Predictive Residual Inference for Visual Representation Learning
Open to students
May 25HolidayPentecost--
June 01Asya AchimovaLooking ahead, looking back: prediction and inference in language understandingOpen to students
June 08Gemma SeghiA Model on IronyOpen to students
June 15Ivan RygaevRSA model of referring expression production and comprehensionOpen to students
June 22Ghada HassanComputational Thinking and Spatial CognitionOpen to students
June 29cancelled(conference) 
July 06cancelled(conference) 
July 13TBD  
July 20 TBD  
July 27AllLab coordination - final summer break meeting