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24.10.2024
Important information for PhDs and early postdoctoral researchers:
The RTG 'Situated Cognition' calls for posters and talks at the Spring School 2025 at the Ruhr University Bochum. You can apply for presentation slots in their program or poster presentations. Find out more here.
17.07.2024
New PhD student position at the University Münster starting in November 2024.
You can find the full job advertisement here.
09.07.2024
Check out a new article here!
The title is: "Combining EEG and eye-tracking in virtual reality: Obtaining fixation-onset event-related potentials and event-related spectral perturbations"
17.06.2024
A new paper has been published!
Have a look at it here
13.06.2024
PhD position at the University Freiburg
There is an open PhD position at the Imaging Memory and Consolidation Lab at the University Freiburg https://imagingconsolidation.com/
For more information, please contact Dr. Deniz Kumral deniz.kumral@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de.
27.05.2024
A new article has been published
The article "Helping Blind People Grasp: Evaluating a Tactile Bracelet for Remotely Guiding Grasping Movements" has been published in Sensors and is available here.
29.04.2024
A new paper has been accepted
the title is: Helping Blind People Grasp: Evaluating a Tactile Bracelet for Remotely Guiding Grasping movements.
It will be published in an upcoming issue of Sensors. It is written by Marcin Furtak, Piper Powell Florian Pätzold, Milad Rouygari, Silke Kärcher and Peter König.
20.12.2023
12 PhD and 2 PostDoc positions available in Göttingen. Check out the information here.
27.11.2023
Job offer for an advanced master student, PhD or postDoc. Find out all about it here.
04.10.2023
What a great report on TV!
Esma Sakalli and Katharina Trant present their bracelet on Sat1. Make sure to watch it here
01.10.2023
Great opportunity! The University of Stirling is looking for a lecturer, a postdoc and a research associate.
The University of Stirling is establishing a new group to further develop the advances in AI and machine learning that have been inspired by the context-sensitive cooperative computational style of cerebral neocortex. You can find a brief description of their recent work here.
24.09.2023
A new paper by Viviane Clay has been accepted...
...and will be in an upcoming issue of the Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. As soon as we have a link, it will be updated here. The title of the paper is "Development of Few-Shot Learning Capabilities in Artificial Neural Networks when Learning through Self-Supervised Interaction"
14.06.2023
Congratulations Jasmin L. Walter!!!
Jasmin L. Walter has won the first prize of the OLB science award for her outstanding master thesis. Read more about it and see a video here
25.04.2023
We have a new published article in Brain Sciences. The title is Improved Spatial Knowledge Acquisition through Sensory Augmentation and it can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/13/5/720
16.03.2023
Congratulations Sarria Mosquera!!!
Sarria Mosquera has been awarded the Rosen-Förderpreis for her outstanding academic work. The award ceremony will take place on March 16th, 2023.
14.03.2023
There is a new publication in the European Journal of Neuroscience.
The title will be: Action Affordance Affects Proximal and Distal Goal-oriented Planning. You can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15963
14.03.2023
Call for Papers!
There is a call for papers from PhD students who are investigating temporal perception in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience and cognitive science. If you are interested, you can find more information here:
Infos
06.03.2023
We have a new preprint on Predicting group bene fits in joint multiple object tracking. It can be found here:
https://psyarxiv.com/fzwgs/ and it will soon be published in Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Wahn B, König P, Kingstone A (2023)
20.12.2022
A new article has been published in MTI. The title is: "Developing Dynamic Audio Navigation UIs to Pinpoint Elements in Tactile Graphics"
Gaspar R, Schmidt V, König P (2022)
https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/6/12/113
25.10.2022
A new paper has been accepted by PLoS CB.Mutual influence between language and perception in multi-agent communication games
Ohmer X, Xenia Ohmer, Marino M, Franke M, König P (2022)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.14518
17.10.2022
Great Podcast with Peter König online. The interview with him is in the second half.
31.08.2022
Now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience! Wild lab: A naturalistic free viewing experiment reveals previously unknown EEG signatures of face processing
Gert AL, Ehinger BV, Timm S, Kietzmann TC, König P (2022)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ejn.15824
11.07.2022
New Paper on Evidence for the Embodiment of the Automatic Approach Bias
Solzbacher J, Czeszumski A, Walter S, König P (2022)
27.06.2022
New Paper on Finding landmarks - An investigation of viewing behavior during spatial navigation in VR using a graph-theoretical analysis approach
Walter JL, Essmann L, König SU, König P (2022)
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009485
22.06.2022
New paper on Sensorimotor Foundations of Social Cognition
Engel AK, Verschure PFMJ, Kragic D, Polani D, Effenberg AO and König P (2022)
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/9316/sensorimotor-foundations-of-social-cognition
https://review.frontiersin.org/review/971133/18/269#/tab/History
14.06.2022
New publication on Talking Cars, Doubtful Users—A Population Study in Virtual Reality
Derakhshan S, Nezami FN, Wächter MA, Czeszumski A, Keshava A, Lukanov H, De Palol MV, Pipa G and König P (2022)
Autonomous vehicles represent a significant development in our society, and their acceptance will largely depend on trust. This study investigates strategies to increase trust and acceptance by making the cars’ decisions.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9781604
11. October 2021 : Online-Symposium on Computational Neuroscience on 13th and 14th October
Fantastic line-up of speakers, great presentations and panel discussion.
No registration required, no participation restrictions, no fees.
For details please visit the symposium’s site:
https://www.ikw-cms.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/research_groups/neurobiopsychology/search_symposium_computational_neuroscience.html
27. September 2021 : New publication on potential differences in the interaction between humans and humans vs. humans and robots
Czeszumski A, Gert AL, Keshava A, Ghadirzadeh A, Kalthoff T, Ehinger BV, Tiessen M, Björkman M, Kragic D and König P (2021).
Coordinating with a robot partner affects neural processing related to action monitoring.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbot.2021.686010. Front Neurorobot 15:686010
This paper was also published as a preprint on bioRxiv in March 2021: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.26.437133v2.abstract
17. September 2021 : Save the date for an interesting online talk (in German): 23.09.21 – 7pm
For details please visit the UOS site: https://www.uni-osnabrueck.de/startseite/:
„Wie Vertrauen entsteht, in welchen Fällen wir KI-Agenten unser Vertrauen (unbewusst) schenken und wie diese Erkenntnisse das autonome Fahren unterstützen, behandelt Maximilian Wächter vom Institut für Kognitionswissenschaft in seinem Vortrag am Donnerstag, 23. September, ab 19 Uhr. Der Online-Vortrag wird im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe "Wissenschaft trifft Wirtschaft - MeetUp" organisiert. Vorherige...
13. September 2021 : New publication on mechanisms of tACS aftereffects:
Schwab BC, König P and Engel AK (2021).
Spike-timing-dependent plasticity can account for connectivity aftereffects of dual-site transcranial alternating current stimulation.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118179
Neuroimage 237:118179
This paper was also published as a preprint on bioRxiv in 2020: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.16.342105
09. August 2021 : A novel approach for training artificial neural networks
Clay V, König P, Kühnberger KU and Pipa G (2021).
Fast concept mapping: The emergence of human abilities in artificial neural networks when learning embodied and self-supervised.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02153 arXiv:2102.02153
Science has proved that humans perceive the world and gradually understand and learn about its underlying concepts by self-supervised interaction and embodiment. By contrast, most artificial neural networks used for object detection and recognition are trained in a...
30. July 2021 : Investigating potential differences in the interaction between humans and humans vs. humans and robots
Czeszumski A, Gert AL, Keshava A, Ghadirzadeh A, Kalthoff T, Ehinger BV, Tiessen M, Björkman M, Kragic D and König P (2021)
Coordinating with a robot partner affects action monitoring related neural processing.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.26.437133
bioRxiv
Robots play an increasing role in multiple areas of our social life, and coordinated interaction between humans and robots will become more and more important.
In our study we aimed at understanding obvious behavioural differences in...
21. July 2021 : New publication on ergonomic risk assessment in VR:
Vox JP, Weber A, Wolf KI, Izdebski K, Schüler T, König P, Wallhoff F and Friemert D (2021). An evaluation of motion trackers with virtual reality sensor technology in comparison to a marker-based motion capture system based on joint angles for ergonomic risk assessment. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21093145 Sensors 21:3145
Measurement of body postures and kinematics in VR is a promising tool for ergonomic assessments. Here we compare an HTC Vive tracker combined with an inverse kinematic model...
11. June 2021 : CogSci Startup LobVR könnte die Psychotherapie revolutionieren; die Aloys & Brigitte Coppenrath Stiftung und ein EXIST Stipendium ermöglichen weiteres Wachstum im Bereich FuE
Ende 2019 hatten wir bereits über das damals noch junge Startup LobVR berichtet. Damals hatten die Gründer Sumin Kim, Imke Mayer, Alexander Palatnik, Marc Viladrich und Timon Jäger einen Platz im Seedhouse accelerator program gewonnen.
Seitdem ist viel passiert, und LobVR ist auf dem besten Wege, sich als Firma zu etablieren. Das Potential für die weitere Forschung und Entwicklung ist enorm. Und mit großzügiger finanzieller Unterstützung durch die Aloys & Brigitte Coppenrath Stiftung und ein EX...
31. May 2021 : New publication on mood primed perception of our world:
Czeszumski A, Albers F, Walter S and König P (2021). Let me make you happy, and I'll tell you how you look around: Using an approach-avoidance task as an embodied emotion prime in a free-viewing task.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.604393. Front Psychol 12:604393
Although emotional priming has been an important topic in research on top-down influences in overt attention, in particular regarding external and internal affective influences, there is little research using embodied primes.
In...
28. May 2021 : Investigating gaze guidance behavior under VR conditions
Keshava A, Nezami FN, Neumann H, Izdebski K, Schüler T and König P (2021).
Just-in-time: Gaze guidance behavior while action planning and execution in VR.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.29.428782. bioRxiv
Eye movements in the natural environment have primarily been studied for common and repetitive tasks that require little attention once learnt. It is, however, unclear whether the same strategy is also applied, when the task is novel and involving a sequence of actions.
Here, we present...
