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Matthias Nau (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), “Revealing General Principles Underlying Active Vision and Memory”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Abstract: Cognitive neuroscience seeks theories that jointly explain behavioral, neural, and mental states. The dominant approach is to use specialized tasks designed to optimally probe a concept of interest (e.g., episodic memory), and to disentangle behavioral, sensory, and mnemonic factors through design (e.g., by constraining gaze during image recognition). I will present an alternative framework

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Jacob Yates (UC Berkeley), “The role of motor signals in visual cortex”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

Embodiment is fundamental to biological intelligence. Brains do not passively receive the world, they actively shape what they sense through self-motion. For nearly a century, we have known that perception and action are deeply entangled, and that organisms must constantly infer whether a sensory change comes from the environment or from themselves. A longstanding idea

Thursday Morning Talk

Alican Mertan (University of Vermont), “Morphological Cognition: Evolving Robots Exhibiting Cognitive Behavior without Abstract Controllers”

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

With the rise of modern deep learning, neural networks have become an essential part of virtually every artificial intelligence system, making it difficult to imagine different models for intelligent behavior. In contrast, nature provides us with many different mechanisms for intelligent behavior, most of which we have yet to utilize. One such underinvestigated aspect of

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Alan Winfield (UWE Bristol) & Dafna Burema (Science of Intelligence)

Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

How should we think about Ethics when Machines become part of our social worlds? Alan Winfield and Dafna Burema will explore the ethical and societal dimensions of robotics and AI in an interactive fishbowl and in conversation with Master`s students of the course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior”. Alan Winfield, a pioneer in the field

External Event

Summer School “Sensory Neuroscience” (Pisa, Italy)

For the first time this year, SCIoI will be one of the organizers of the Circle U. Summer School in Pisa, which already involves the HU Berlin and UCLouvain. Together with renowned researchers, Master's students will explore the complexities of the human mind and brain through the study of perception. This summer school is connected

For the Public

Excellent Pub Quiz

Fahimi bar Skalitzer Str. 133, Berlin, Germany

Dive into the wonderful world of research of the seven Berlin Clusters of Excellence: from literature to chemistry, from politics to AI, you and your team can find answers for exciting and surprising questions from the clusters’ research areas. So seek fellows and think of your team name! Every quiz evening focuses on the research

External Event

Summer School of Artificial Intelligence and Society 2025 (BIFOLD, Weizenbaum Institute, SCIoI)

TU-Campus EUREF, EUREF-Campus 9, 10829 Berlin-Schöneberg. EUREF-Campus, Germany

As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the landscape of scientific discovery, the need for openness, transparency, and reproducibility in research has never been more urgent. The 2025 Berlin Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Society, jointly organized by the Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD), the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society,

Thursday Morning Talk

Sole Traverso (Science of Intelligence)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

More details to follow. Image created with DALL-E by Maria Ott.

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Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin (MPI-AB & the University of Konstanz)

SCIoI, Marchstraße 23, 10587 Berlin, Room 2.057

More details to follow. This talk is part of David Mezey‘s course “Introduction to Modeling Collective Behavior, ” a seminar on collective behavior research, combined with multiple interactive elements. Photo by Gertrūda Valasevičiūtė on Unsplash.