CAIAN Events

Guest talk by Fleur Zeldenrust (Radboud University) on "Heterogeneity in the brain: lessons from theory and experiment." Read the full abstract here: https://www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news-events/caian-talks Hybrid event: zoom access via this link https://shorturl.at/s1EB1 For more information on the event, please contact: Konstantinos Armaos at karmaos@uni-bonn.de or Olivier de Vries at odevries@uni-bonn.de.

Guest talk by Moritz Grosse-Wentrup (University of Vienna) on "Bridging the Explanatory Gap between Neuronal Activity and Cognition through Multilevel Causal Modeling." Read the full abstract here: https://www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news-events/caian-talks Hybrid event: zoom access via this link https://shorturl.at/YhbKl For more information on the event, please contact: Konstantinos Armaos at karmaos@uni-bonn.de or Olivier de Vries at odevries@uni-bonn.de.

Guest talk by Jan Peters (University of Cologne) on "Skewed mental models: neurocomputational perspective on problem gambling." Read the full abstract here: https://www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/news-events/caian-talks Hybrid event: zoom access via this link https://shorturl.at/YhbKl For more information on the event, please contact: Konstantinos Armaos at karmaos@uni-bonn.de or Olivier de Vries at odevries@uni-bonn.de.

- From perception to action and back - This international symposium brings together experts from diverse fields to explore the current state and future directions for naturalistic neuroscience research. As a two-day event, NN2026 spotlights substantive research, novel neurotechnology, and theoretical underpinnings in naturalistic neuroscience. In addition to a series of distinguished keynote talks, participants will have the opportunity to present their work through oral or poster presentations. During the symposium, it will also be possible to visit local naturalistic neuroscience and virtual reality facilities. NN2026 is hosted by caian – Centre for AI and Neuroscience at University of Bonn, and supported by NeurotechEU – The European University of Brain and Technology and the iBehave network as the event aims to strengthen the local neuroscience community while fostering global collaborations.

Guest talk by Jan Engelmann (University of Amsterdam) on "Distinguishing individual and contextual channels of attention in risky decision-making". This talk will present work on the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying value-based decisions, with a focus on multi-attribute choices. Sebastian Gluth is Professor for Cognitive Modelling and Decision Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms of value-based decisions in its interplay with other cognitive functions, such as attention, memory, and learning. Methodologically, he combines cognitive modelling of decision-making and learning models with behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, fMRI and EEG. Hybrid event: zoom access via this link https://shorturl.at/qa3Vk For more information on the event, please contact: Konstantinos Armaos at karmaos@uni-bonn.de or Olivier de Vries at odevries@uni-bonn.de.

Guest talk by Sebastian Gluth (University of Hamburg) on "Unraveling the Neural and Computational Principles of Information Integration in Complex Decisions" This talk will present work on the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying value-based decisions, with a focus on multi-attribute choices. Sebastian Gluth is Professor for Cognitive Modelling and Decision Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms of value-based decisions in its interplay with other cognitive functions, such as attention, memory, and learning. Methodologically, he combines cognitive modelling of decision-making and learning models with behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, fMRI and EEG. Hybrid event: zoom access via this link https://shorturl.at/qa3Vk For more information on the event, please contact: Konstantinos Armaos at karmaos@uni-bonn.de or Olivier de Vries at odevries@uni-bonn.de.

Guest talk by Marta Andreatta (University Hospital Tübingen) on "When context matters in shaping defensive responses" Defensive responses are strongly modulated by contextual information. In this talk, she will present studies illustrating how VR can advance our understanding on context-dependent associative learning. She will focus on the acquisition of context-dependent anxiety, presenting data on healthy individuals as well as patients with anxiety disorders. Marta Andreatta is a Heisenberg Fellow at the University Hospital Tübingen (UKT). Her work centers on associative learning mechanisms integrating psychophysiological methods with innovative experimental approaches such as virtual reality. Hybrid event: zoom access via this link https://shorturl.at/0sqGm For more information on the event, please contact: Konstantinos Armaos at karmaos@uni-bonn.de or Olivier de Vries at odevries@uni-bonn.de .

Guest talk by Charley Wu (TU Darmstadt) on "Generalization Guides Exploration Across Development, Social Contexts, and Memory" Human learning and decision-making often relies on generalizing from limited experience to novel situations. In this talk, Charley Wu will present a unified framework that models this process as a form of function approximation using Gaussian Process regression. Charley Wu is a W3 (tenured) Professor of Computational Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt and PI of the Human and Machine Cognition Lab (https://hmc-lab.com). Hybrid event: zoom access via this link https://shorturl.at/mIw5O For more information on the event, please contact: Konstantinos Armaos at karmaos@uni-bonn.de or Olivier de Vries at odevries@uni-bonn.de .

Panther. Bear. Snakes. Threats that we rarely encounter around here, but that are notoriously difficult to escape from. Would you like to test your skills and experience a virtual attack of this kind in our VR lab? You can come on the 3rd of December to get a taste of our experiments: walk around in a virtual field, collect fruits, and encounter threats within the safety of a Virtual Reality environment. If you escape or fight will be up to you. You can find our lab at Campus Endenich, near the Chemistry building (Am Propsthof 49). Doors open at 10am. First come, first attacked!

Guest Talk by Manos Konstantinidis (University of Warwick) on "Sources of information and confidence in experiential risky choice". Research on experiential risky choice (or feedback-based decision making) has traditionally focused on identifying and explaining differences relative to description-based choice. In experiential choice, people learn about the instrumental value of their options (outcomes and probabilities) through repeated choice and feedback. In contrast, description-based choice involves decisions based on idealised statistical summaries. These two sources of information have often been studied in isolation, even though real-world decisions typically require integrating both descriptive summaries and personal experience. Online access: https://shorturl.at/0dWYD More information on the guest speaker: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psych/people/konstantinidis/

Guest talk by Ondřej Zíka (University College Dublin) on "Computational markers of uncertainty sensitivity as predictors of longitudinal changes in anxiety" Location: Institute of Computer Science (Informatik) | Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 8 | 53115 Bonn | Seminar Room 0.016. Online: https://shorturl.at/A8aZJ