Visual information processing in perception and action

Summer term 2018

Guests are welcome! (i.e., if only a single talk is of interest to you, please feel free to stop by for this specific session). Please note the slight variations in room and time.


2018-04-20 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
  • Planning
2018-04-27 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
  • Retreat of computer science department
2018-05-04 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
  • Leonie Fresz / AG Gais: Sleep, memory, EEG, & MEG / (MSc theses/planning)
2018-05-11 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
  • PhD-day
2018-05-18 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
  • Postponed to 2018-07-13
2018-06-01 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
  • Frieder Goeppert: Boosting Performance Bounds within a Mutual Information-Setting (planning/status of BSc-thesis; 30 min + 15 min discussion)
  • Maren Klimm: Effects of contrast variation on the Indirect Task Advantage (planning/status of BSc-thesis; 30 min + 15 min discussion)
2018-06-08 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14 (note: slightly longer session)
  • Julia Burkhardt: "The effect of neurofeedback training on memory performance" (MSc theses/results; 25 min + 10 min discussion)
  • Fabian Poetzsch-Heffter: Face recognition in objects (planning of BSc-thesis; 30 min + 15 min discussion)
2018-06-15 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
2018-06-22 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
2018-06-29 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
  • Iris Zerweck: ITA and low level stimuli - current progress (45 min + 20 min discussion)
  • Journal Club (Maren Klimm): Pratte, M. S. & Rouder, J. N. (2009) A task-difficulty artifact in subliminal priming. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics 71:1276–83. (10 min + 5 min discussion)
2018-07-06 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
2018-07-13 Fri 14:15-16:00 room C215, Sand 14
  • Leonie Fresz: Analysis of sleep spindle and slow oscillation coupling in human sleep using MEG (MSc theses/results; 25 min + 10 min discussion)
  • Journal Club (Frieder Goeppert): Gomez, P., Perea, M., & Ratcliff, R. (2013). A Diffusion Model Account of Masked Versus Unmasked Priming: Are They Qualitatively Different? Journal of Experimental Psychology -- Human Perception and Performance, 39, 1731-1740. (10 min + 5 min discussion)
  • Talk cancelled/postponed: Teresa Tatagiba / AG Ziemann: Tracing Neuroplasticity in Stroke with nTMS (navigated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation) (45 min + 30 min discussion)
2018-07-20 Fri 14:15-15:30 room C215, Sand 14 (note: shorter session)
2018-07-27 Fri 13:15-15:30 room C215, Sand 14 (!!! NOTE: earlier start and longer session !!!)
  • Fabian Poetzsch-Heffter: Face recognition in objects (status of BSc-thesis; 30 min + 15 min discussion)
  • Maren Klimm: Effects of contrast variation on the Indirect Task Advantage (results of BSc-thesis; 30 min + 15 min discussion)
  • Frieder Goeppert: Boosting Performance Bounds with Mutual Information (results of BSc-thesis; 30 min + 15 min discussion)

Journal club:
10 min presentation + 5 min discussion (please make sure you adhere to these time-limits!). In the journal club a member of our group present an influential, scientific article relevant to our current work. Articles should typically be recent (e.g., 3-5 years), but could also be older if of special interest. Articles will be available at our file-server, please ask a member of our group if you do not know how to access those. Please make sure that the full APA-reference is presented at this web-page (either by you or by sending an email to V. Franz) and on the title-slide of your presentation (a full APA-reference includes title, authors, year, journal, etc. in APA-formatted style, not only the title...).

Related colloquia

Here is an (uncomplete) quick list of related other colloquia in Tübingen:
Forschungskolloquium Kognitionswissenschaft
Neurokolloquium & Neurobiologisches Montagskolloquium
Seminar Series of Tübingen's Max-Planck Campus

A note to our BSc Cognitive Science students

Since winter semester WS2017/18 you receive credit for visiting talks in one of our cognitive science colloquia. This is intended to reward you for looking around and taking part in our active research community. Essentially, our idea is to 'nudge' you into making it a routine of your student life to look around for interesting research talks and pick those that are of interest to you. Therefore, we hope that you will visit much more than those 15 talks that are the minimum requirement during the course of your BSc-studies. For details, see:
Forschungskolloquium Kognitionswissenschaft
The new rules for receiving credit for colloquia