Information processing in cognitive systems & statistical methods

Winter term 2023/24 / Fr. 14:15-15:45 (room C118a / 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 (winter semester 2023/24) we kindly ask every attendee to take a Corona test beforehand (within last 48h). For your convenience we will also provide tests on-site.


The following schedule is currently only a suggestion and subject to change!


2023-10-27 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Planning session
2023-11-03 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • No colloq / MINT-Schnuppertag
2023-11-10 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • No colloq
2023-11-17 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Anton Ernst (B.Sc. planning talk) — Predicting food-intake in the bogus taste test from biometric data
  • Sascha Meyen (Research talk) — Translating Accuracies from 2AFC to 4AFC Tasks
  • Florian Ebmeier (Journal club) — Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser,L. & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information processing systems, 30.
2023-11-24 Fri 14:15-15:45
2023-12-01 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Elias Küchle (B.Sc. planning talk) — From Hell to Heaven: De-torturing BCI Experiments
  • Lasse Schlör (Research talk) — Effects of plexiglas in front of a VPixx monitor (update)
2023-12-08 Fri 14:15-15:45
2023-12-15 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Florian Ebmeier (Research talk) — Advanced Deep learning Techniques for Solar Thermal Systems
  • Linus Rappold (B.Sc. planning talk) — The Effect of Prior Information on Pupil Dilation Responses linked to Model Reset
2023-12-22 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • No colloq
2024-01-12 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Carina Schrenk (B.Sc. planning talk) — Is the Rate of Perceptual Evidence Accumulation Constant? A Metacognitive Drift Diffusion Model
  • Kriti Bhatia (Research talk) — Garner Facilitation Effects in Open-loop Manual Estimation
  • Hamit Başgöl (Journal club) — Éltető, N., Nemeth, D., Janacsek, K., & Dayan, P. (2022). Tracking human skill learning with a hierarchical Bayesian sequence model. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(11), e1009866.
2024-01-19 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Hamit Başgöl (Research talk) — Revisiting Visual Uncertainties: Exploring Pupil Dilation Responses linked to Visual Regularity Violations
  • Hannah Blaurock (Research talk) — Fault Detection in Solar Thermal Systems from Latent Data: An Explorative Analysis
2024-01-26 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Alexander Blöck (Research Talk) - Can EEG Signals be Used to Detect Stimulus Changes Better Than the Direct Report of Participants?
  • Frieder Göppert (Journal club) — Gelman, A., & Shalizi, C. R. (2013). Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 66(1), 8-38.
2024-02-02 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • No colloq
2024-02-09 Fri 14:15-15:45
  • Postponed: Elias Küchle (B.Sc. results talk) — From Hell to Heaven: De-torturing BCI Experiments
  • Carina Schrenk (B.Sc. results talk) — Is the Rate of Perceptual Evidence Accumulation Constant? A Metacognitive Drift Diffusion Model
  • Anton Ernst (B.Sc. results talk) — Predicting food-intake in the bogus taste test from biometric data
2024-02-22 Thu 10:15-11:45 (Same room as always: C118a)
  • Carina Schrenk (B.Sc. results talk) — Is the Rate of Perceptual Evidence Accumulation Constant? A Metacognitive Drift Diffusion Model
  • Anton Ernst (B.Sc. results talk) — Predicting food-intake in the bogus taste test from biometric data

Your talk:
When preparing a talk for our colloquium, please:
  • Send a PDF-file of an (almost) final version of your talk by email to V. Franz a day before the talk (latest: 2h before the talk). Details for the PDF-file: 1 slide per page. Make sure that you do NOT create separate pages for each step of animations. Give this PDF-file a sensible name. E.g., colloq-(your-last-name)-(date).pdf. If you made major changes to the talk after sending it to V. Franz, then please also send the final version after your talk.
  • Practice your talk!
  • Adhere to the time-limits during your talk. Practice that!
  • Present data as graphs (supplemented but not supplanted by numerical statistics). Often these graphs 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! Send a PDF before the 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?'