Information processing in cognitive systems & statistical methods

Summer term 2023 / Fr. 14:15-15:45 (room A302 / Sand)

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).


Note: Most meetings will be in person. But there might be exceptions, which we will announce here. Virtual meetings will take place here: https://zoom.us/j/95655861049?pwd=am95d05kcTBKS1YzTUZyUE8wcHVxQT09.


Corona testing: Please note that during this semester (summer semester 2023) we kindly ask every attendee to take a Corona test beforehand (within last 48h). For your convenience we will also provide tests on-site.



2023-04-21 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • No colloq (retreat of computer science department)
2023-04-28 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Planning session: If you write a thesis in our group, or if you plan to do so, or if you are a research assistant/HiWi: Please come to this session such that we can plan the talks.
2023-05-05 Fri 14:15-15:45
2023-05-12 Fri 15:15-16:45 Room: A302 (note different time!)
2023-05-16 Tue 16:15-17:45 Room: A104 (note different day & time!)
2023-05-23 Tue 16:15-17:45 Room: A104 (note different day & time!)
2023-06-09 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • postponed
2023-06-16 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • No colloq (PhD day of computer science department)
2023-06-23 Fri 14:15-15:45 Room: B305 (note different room!)
2023-06-30 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Tina Truong: Evaluating the perception of phase transitions in high frequency flicker (Results talk of BSc thesis)
  • Alexander Blöck: How to ask heretical questions!?
2023-07-07 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Sascha Meyen: Error consistency in humans and ANNs
  • Florian Friedrich: Status of research project on EEG and ultra-rapid object recognition
2023-07-14 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Frieder Göppert: What is the best equivalence test?
  • Journal Club: TBA
2023-07-21 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Kriti Bhatia: Evaluating the Perception-Action Model with evidence from Garner interference
  • Lasse Schlör: Monitor comparison
2023-07-28 Fri 14:15-15:45

Your talk:
When preparing a talk for our colloquium, please:
  • Practice your talk!
  • Send a PDF-file (and if available a PowerPoint file) of the final version of your talk by email to V. Franz before the talk. Details for the PDF-file: 1 slide per page and make sure that you do NOT create separate pages for each step of the animations. Give this PDF-file a sensible name. E.g., colloq-(your-last-name)-(date).pdf
  • Adhere to the time-limits during your talk. Practice that!
  • Present data as graphs (supplemented but not supplanted by numerical statistics). Often these graphs simply will simply be means with error-bars showing the standard error of the mean.
  • Provide your name, the date of your talk, your institution (often this is simply: University of Tübingen), etc. at the title-slide.
  • Practice your talk!
  • Finally (just in case, I forgot to mention): Practice your talk!

Journal club:
5-10 min presentation + 25-20 min discussion (in total app. 30 min; 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 (with the path being e.g., EC-STORE/literature/articles/journal-club-SS2023), please ask a member of our group if you do not know how to access those. Please make sure that a meaningful reference (containing title, author, year, journal) is presented at this web-page (either by you or by sending an email to V. Franz) and that the full APA-reference in the correct APA-formatting is present on the title-slide of your presentation (besides the typical things that should always be on a title slide: your name, the date of your talk, your institution (often this is simply: University of Tübingen) .

Related colloquia

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

BSc Cognitive Science students: Forschungskolloquium Kognitionswissenschaft

Since winter term 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.

NOTE: If you want a 'Nachweis' / verification of your attendance for one of our meetings and if this meeting is virtual, then we expect you to switch on your camera during the full time of the meeting and to actively take part in the discussion.

For general details, see:
Forschungskolloquium Kognitionswissenschaft
FAQ: 'Was ist das Forschungskolloquium Kognitionswissenschaft im Bachelor? Wie kann ich mir die Teilnahme anerkennen bzw. bestätigen lassen?'