CAIAN Events

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