Symposium (2024)

DFG SPP “The Active Self” Symposium: 25th-27th September 2024

Venue: Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

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Preceded by this year’s Summer School

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Symposium program Wednesday 25th  of September

15:15

15:15

Session 1: Developmental

Matej Hoffmann

Czech Technical University in Prague

Understanding infant development through baby humanoid robots.

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

16:35

16:45

Sergiu Tcaci Popescu

Czech Technical University in Prague

Influence of touch duration on tactile localization on the arm

17:05

Keynote 2: Bernhard Hommel

Concepts of the self

18:00

20:30

Dinner

Poster session 1 & drinks

Symposium program Thursday 26th  of September

 

8:00

9:00

Breakfast

Keynote 3: Kai Vogeley 

Disorders of the self

10:00

10:00

Session 2, Neuro

Tim Möller

Humboldt University Berlin

Bridging Minds and Machines

  

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

Time can be perceived depending on the space during virtual and physical active tool-use training in young and older adults

12:30

14:20

14:20

Lunch

Session 4, Robotics & Modelling

Josua Spisak

Hamburg University

How can human demonstrations be used to teach robots?

14:40

Pablo Lanillos

Cajal International Neuroscience Center (CINC)

Why are robots NOT conscious?

15:00

15:30

15:30

Coffee

Flash session 3

Verena Vanessa Hafner

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

An Embodied AI Approach to Measures of the Self

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

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

11:10

Carlotta Langer

Hamburg University of Technology

Integrated Information in the Active Inference Framework

11:30

12:30

Closing words: Verena Hafner

Lunch