Distinguished Speaker Series

Abstract: Comparative psychologists have spent the last few decades examining whether nonhuman animals understand the physical world in a way that is similar to humans. Broadly, human intuitive physics is

Onur Güntürkün is regarded as a pioneer of biologically based psychology. The aim of his work is to find out how perception, thought and action arise in the brain. He

Decision making strategies in the face of conflicting or uncertain sensory input have been successfully described in many different species.  Here we analyze large behavioral datasets of larval zebrafish engaged

Despite current advances in artificial intelligence, many people remain convinced that machines are still far from being able to really experience, for example, the redness of a sunset, the pain

David Marr wrote 'What does it mean, to see? The plain man's answer (and Aristotle's, too) would be, to know what is where by looking'. Modern vision science has moved

In less than 20 years drones transitioned from research labs to the real world and had a major impact on inspection, security, rescue, logistics, and entertainment. However, today's drones do