Computational Cognition

Graduate school at the interface of Machine Learning,
Computational Neuroscience, and #AI.
Institute of Cognitive Science @UniOsnabrueck. Funded by #DFG

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See you all again hopefully soon!

- Jasmin, Ann, Kristina and Gabriela

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#ComCo2023 was a blast! Two days packed with exciting research: six keynote talks, eight contributed talks, two poster sessions and countless awesome interactions after the sessions, during the lunch/coffee breaks, at the bar and during our networking and warm up sessions!

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Special thanks go to our keynote speakers: Valerio Mante, Asya Achimova, Carlos Zednik, Marieke Woensdregt, Tom Froese and Dora Angelaki. Thank you for coming and sparking so many exciting discussions - your talks were an inspiration.

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Piper Powell and Marcin Furtak presenting on supporting grasping movement and object interaction in the visually impaired. #ComCo23 @feelSpaceBelt

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Nice methodological work testing a velocity-based algorithm which showed accurate classification of eye movements into gazes and saccades, and that ERSPs are better suitable to study behavior in free-viewing experiments as they are less time-sensitive.

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@DeboAnn1 presenting on combining #EEG and eye-tracking in #VR: obtaining fixation-onset ERPs and ERSPs.

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Practically there needs to be a switch of focus and a development of the cognitive science toolbox for identifying those observable changes that are inexplicable in terms of observables.

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Keynote talk by @DrTomFroese from @OISTedu on Making Mind Matter. Lots of food for thought! In this talk the irruption theory was presented, which is a novel approach to conceptualize the enactive account of motivated activity.

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In essence, it was propsed that cognitive science has been misguided by focusing on observables that are in principle fully explicable in terms of other observables.

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Models were compared and results showed no difference between the attention-correction model versus baseline. Additionally the talk included strategies for resolving ambiguity, and future work could focus on how humans manage resource demands.
#pragmaticreasoning #languagemodels

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Day two of #ComCo23 starts with @mariekewoe talk on how social cognition is applied in language use?

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Discussion included the two experiments conducted using demonstratives to extract a computational model which accounts for the visual search cost of the receiver with softmax rationality parameter.

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Specifically also the challenges of the cognitive modeling approach including interpretability, scalability, etc. #ExplainableAI #cognitivemodels #AItrust

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Does explainable AI needs cognitive models? last keynote of the day by @CarlosZednik who discusses the advantages and limitations of “top-down” and “bottom-up” explainable strategies.

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Importantly both strategies are limited to promote trustworthiness in AI. This begs the question whether we could seek inspiration and adopt an explanatory strategy from the field of cognitive science.

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from neural spiking synchrony (@Vik_Zemliak) to applying computational cognitive models to real-world driving scenarios (Gustav Markkula) to now poster session with some nice ☕️&🍰 #ComCo23

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looking forward to it!

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Exciting start to #ComCo2023 - what is the link between decisions and neural activity? I will revisit this topic during my talk on Tuesday.

[Tom Froese, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit (ECSU) @DrTomFroese]

Exciting start to #ComCo2023 - what is the link between decisions and neural activity? I will revisit this topic during my talk on Tuesday.

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Special thanks and shout-out to our sponsors (ROSEN Technology and Research Center, PSIORI, @dfg_public for their support in making this conference happen.
#computationalcognition #braindynamics #languagemodels #neuralnetworks

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Exciting kick-off to #ComCo23 this morning: Using recurrent neural networks to translate neural dynamics of primates to decision behavior (Valerio Mante), discussions on pragmatic language use with GPT-3 (Polina Tsvilodub),

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and how to model ambiguities in conversations within the rational Speech Act framework (@AAchimova )…stay tuned for more presentations to come!