Information processing in cognitive systems & statistical methods

Summer term 2026

Guests are welcome! Feel free to stop by (even when it is only for a single talk).

Schedule

Currently we are finalizing the schedule for the current semester. Therefore, please stay tuned. If you expect to give a talk (e.g., because you are writing your BSc/MSc/PhD thesis in our group), please come to the planning session, such that we can schedule your talk. Deviations in day, time or location are marked in red.

Fr 17.04.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• Planning session

Fr 24.04.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• postponed

Fr 08.05.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• Sascha Meyen (Research talk): Information-theoretic measures of calibration
• Kriti Bhatia (Journal club): Kopiske, K. K. and Domini, F. (2018). On the response function and range dependence of manual estimation. Experimental Brain Research, 236, 1309–1320. DOI

Fr 15.05.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• postponed

Fr 22.05.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• Hamit Başgöl & Kriti Bhatia (Extended journal club): Pfalz, L., Müller, C. and Kopiske, K. K. (2025). Can pupillometry reveal perturbation detection in sensorimotor adaptation during grasping? Journal of Neurophysiology, 134:5, 1804-1817. DOI

• Şura Genç (Guest presentation, University of Konstanz): Continuous assessment of flow state using subjective and physiological measures

Fr 05.06.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• postponed

Fr 12.06.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• Kriti Bhatia (Research talk): Accuracy of "calibrated" manual size estimates

Fr 19.06.2026 13:30-17:00 Maria-von-Linden Str. 1

• PhD-day of the Department of Computer Science

Fr 26.06.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• Hamit Başgöl (Research talk): Detecting auditory and visual regularities within fast-paced sequences

• Sinan Kılıç (Planning talk for BSc thesis): Comparing methods of isolating phasic from tonic pupil responses

Fr 03.07.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• ? Alexander Blöck (Research talk): Steady-state visually evoked potential decoding
• Yuguang Lin (Planning talk for MSc thesis): Pupil responses to the return of previous contexts

Fr 10.07.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• Florian Ebmeier (Research talk): Towards foundation models in heating systems
• ? Linus Szillat (Research talk): Optional stopping

Fr 17.07.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• TBA

Tu 21.07.2026 14:30-16:00 10-10/A12, Maria-von-Linden Str. 6 ( NIP colloquium )

• Frieder Göppert (Research talk): Regions of decision

Fr 24.07.2026 14:15-15:45 A302, Sand 13

• TBA

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

In a nutshell:

• General idea: 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.
• Duration: 5-10 min presentation + 25-20 min discussion (in total app. 30 min; please make sure you adhere to these time-limits!).
• Obtaining articles: Articles will be available at our file-server (with the path being e.g., EC-STORE/literature/articles/journal-club-WS2025), please ask a member of our group if you do not know how to access those.
• Formatting details: 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).

BSc Cognitive Science students: Forschungskolloquium Kognitionswissenschaft

BSc Cognitive Science students receive credit for visiting talks. 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. If you join one of our sessions and want a verification of your attendance, please have a look at: Nachweis for Forschungskolloquium Kognitionswissenschaft. The 'Laufzettel' there contains all the rules that apply (for example, listening to talks by BSc/MSc students cannot be counted as research talks --- although we nevertheless encourage you to visit such talks too!).

Related colloquia

Here is an (uncomplete) quick list of related colloquia in Tübingen:

• General Cognitive Science Talks (as collected by the Cognitive Science Center Tübingen)
• Cognitive Science Colloquium
• Seminar Series of Tübingen's Max-Planck Campus