Research Training Group - Kick-off meeting 2008

Tuesday, 25th November 2008, 18.00 - 21.00
AVZ, Albrechtstrasse 28, 31/449a

18.00 Welcome
(Prof. Peter Bosch, Institute of Cognitive Science, Speaker of the Research Training Group)
18.05 ZePrOs: The Centre for PhD Students at the University of Osnabrück
(Prof. Beate Schücking, Vice President for Research and Graduate Student Development)
18.20 Adaptivity in hybrid cognitive systems
(Prof. Peter Bosch)

How to spell out "adaptivity"

18.35 ... in the context of sensory processing
(Prof. Peter König, Institute of Cognitive Science)
18.50 ... in the context of personality psychology
(Prof. Julius Kuhl, Institute of Psychology)
19.05 ... in the context of emotion research
(Prof. Achim Stephan, Institute of Cognitive Science)
19.20 ... in the context of robotics
(Prof. Joachim Hertzberg, Institute of Computer Science)
19.35 Discussion
19.50 Presentation of the current Master and PhD projects:
   "Polysemy in Lexical Mental Representation: Semantics of Adjectives"
   (Oleksandr Alyeksyeyenko)
   "Definite Reference"
   (Maria Cieschinger )
   "Cognitive Correlates of Affect Affect-Induced Alpha Alpha-Asymmetries"
   (Rainer Düsing )
   "The Modeling of Non-Classical Logical Theories with Neural Networks"
   (Ulf Krumnack)
   "The Interaction of Visual Attention and Linguistic Processing"
   (Christian Wurm)
   "Selection of fixation points under natural conditions"
   (Torsten Betz)
   "Neuronal Correlates of Impaired Behavioral Adaptation"
   (Lucas Eggert)