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Naomi Leonard, Princeton University (hosted by Jörg Raisch): Opinion Dynamics with Tunable Sensitivity: Consensus, Dissensus, and Cascades

I will present a model of continuous-time opinion dynamics for an arbitrary number of agents that communicate over a network and form real-valued opinions about an arbitrary number of options.  The model generalizes linear and nonlinear models in the literature. Drawing from biology, physics, and social psychology, we introduce an attention parameter to modulate social

Michael Pauen

On ZOOM (Contact communication@scioi.de for link)

BIO: Michael Pauen is a philosopher with a focus on the philosophy of mind. As the academic director of an interdisciplinary graduate school, he has extensive experience in interdisciplinary research and training. Having a specific interest in philosophical and psychological aspects of human sociality, he will focus on social intelligence both in humans and in

Michele Rucci, University of Rochester (Hosted by Marianne Maertens): Seeing by Moving: The Indissoluble Bond Between Perception and Action

Seeing by moving: the indissoluble bond between perception and action Establishing a representation of space is a major goal of sensory systems.  Spatial information, however, is not always explicit in the incoming sensory signals. In most modalities it needs to be actively extracted from cues embedded in the temporal flow of receptor activation. Vision, on