January 2024
In this talk, Asieh will explore the dynamics of decision-making and risk-taking within social contexts and how everyday decisions, often laden with potential negative outcomes, are influenced not only by individual judgment but significantly by the surrounding social environment. Her research employs the "Balloon Analogue Risk-Taking" experiment in a controlled setting applying VR-technology in order to…
December 2023
Abstract: Adaptive behaviours are central to human's development - particularly when interacting with others in social contexts and in unknown environments. At SCIoI, a number of projects aimed to identify the components of adaptive behaviours among humans and artifcial agents. The talk gives an overview on current findings from these projects and aims to contribute to…
Thursday Morning Talk: Aravind Battaje and Vito Mengers, “Principles at Play: What is Intelligence?”
What is intelligence? We delve into the collaborative efforts at SCIoI, where we aim to understand intelligence through the identification of commonalities. Inspired by ongoing research and historical parallels, we present candidate principles, inviting the audience to contribute insights and discuss their alignment with ongoing projects. This talk marks a step towards refining our understanding of…
November 2023
In both the analytical and the synthetical sciences, research on perception is largely separated from research on motor control. In this talk, I will give an overview of the many ways in which these domains interact and coalesce to support each other in actively behaving observers. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI (room…
Eva Wiese is the professor for Cognitive Psychology and Ergonomics at TU Berlin. More details to follow. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI. Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash, ***Want to attend one of our events? Sign up here. To get regular updates, subscribe to our mailing list from this page.
This talk will take place in person at SCIoI (room 2.057). ***Want to attend one of our events? Sign up here. To get regular updates, subscribe to our mailing list from this page.
Collective behavior is a generic term used across many different fields and context, and thus it can refer to very different kind of collective phenomena exhibited by animal and human collectives, such as collective locomotion, collective decision making or behavioral contagion processes. In this lecture, I will try to give a classification of different types of…
Daniela Vallentin is a neuroscientist and currently the Lise Meitner Reseach Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, heading the 'Neural Circuits for Vocal Communication' Group whose objective is to explore the neural circuits driving skilled motor learning and orchestrating the coordination of precise movements by working with songbirds. Due to the homology…
The Berlin Science Week is quickly approaching, with its yearly explosion of scientific events all around town. This year, SCIoI has joined forces with all the other Berlin clusters with an exciting science slam at Holzmarkt, taking place on 2 November at 7:30pm. Join in and clap as loud as you can for the best slammers!
More details to follow. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI. Photo by Katja Anokhina on Unsplash. ***Want to attend one of our events? Sign up here. To get regular updates, subscribe to our mailing list from this page.
October 2023
More details to follow. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. ***Want to attend one of our events? Sign up here. To get regular updates, subscribe to our mailing list from this page.
From molecule to atmosphere: the global climate crisis and the possible futures of our coexistence will be decided by means of air. We are »airbound« – bound through air. How can we create a sense of what is coming? And what will connect us in the future? The exhibition »Airbound« features climate fictions and speculative…
Abstract: The idea that animal groups can have collective memories has been raised a number of times in different contexts. The information centre hypothesis predicts that communal roosts allow for information exchange between individuals so that successful foragers, for example, can be followed by others to promising sites. A different approach to collective memory has been…
Abstract: A tutorial on Open Science practices with a focus on pre-registration, going through the process step-by-step, including a live experimental data collection. This talk will take place in person at SCIoI. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash. ***Want to attend one of our events? Sign up here. To get regular updates, subscribe to our mailing…
Abstract: Visual perception is shaped by the input from our physical environment and by expectations derived from our sensory experience with the visual world. But is what we see also influenced by higher cognitive capacities such as memories, language, semantic knowledge or (true or false) beliefs? And if so, what are the consequences on how we…