DFG SPP “The Active Self” Symposium: 25th-27th September 2024
Venue: Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

Preceded by this year’s Summer School
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Symposium program Wednesday 25th of September
14:00
14:15
15:15
15:15
Session 1: Developmental
Matej Hoffmann
Czech Technical University in Prague
Understanding infant development through baby humanoid robots.
15:25
15:45
16:15
16:15
Coffee
Flash Session 1
Xia Xu
University of Frankfurt
Infants and mobiles: developing an understanding of cause and effect
16:25
Konstantin Steinmassl
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
16:35
Jason Khoury
Czech Technical University in Prague
Patterns of spontaneous self-touch and active exploration in the first year of life
16:45
Sergiu Tcaci Popescu
Czech Technical University in Prague
Influence of touch duration on tactile localization on the arm
16:55
Shreejata Gupta
Aix-Marseille Université
17:05
Keynote 2: Bernhard Hommel
18:00
20:30
Dinner
Poster session 1 & drinks

Symposium program Thursday 26th of September
8:00
9:00
10:00
10:00
10:20
Fred Hamker
Technische Universität Chemnitz
A basal ganglia – thalamic prediction circuit for the active self
10:40
Coffee
11:10
Markus R. Tünte
University of Vienna
From Infant to Maternal Interoception
11:30
11:30
11:40
Amir Jahanian Najafabadi
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University
11:50
Jieyi Liu
University of Birmingham
12:00
Nils Wendel Heinrich
Lübeck University
Two Types of Action Control in Response to Anticipating or Actually Experiencing a Loss of Control
12:30
14:20
14:20
Lunch
Session 4, Robotics & Modelling
Josua Spisak
Hamburg University
14:40
15:00
15:30
15:30
Coffee
Flash session 3
Verena Vanessa Hafner
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
15:40
Raz Leib
Technische Universität München
A modified Bayesian integration framework for the sense of agency
15:50
Mateusz Woźniak
Italian Institute of Technology
Active Self and Robot Autonomy:
investigating human-robot shared control
16:00
16:20
18:00
20:30
20 min Break
Keynote 4: Andrew Bremner (dev sc)
The free-floating baby hypothesis: The developmental construction of bodily and psychological selves in human infancy
Dinner
Poster session 2 & drinks

Symposium program Friday 27th of September
8:00
9:00
Breakfast
Keynote 5: Agnieszka Wykowska
Robots as partners, robots as tools – sense of agency in human-robot teamwork
10:00
10:30
10:30
Coffee
Session 5, Cognitive
Amir Jahanian Najafabadi
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University
Extending perception: Tool Use and the Interplay of Body, Space, and Time
10:50
Tim Möller
Humboldt University Berlin
11:10
Carlotta Langer
Hamburg University of Technology
11:30
12:30
Closing words: Verena Hafner
Lunch
