For our first special episode that we recorded at the Cognitive Science Space Day, we talked to Prof. Dr. Peter König. He is a lecturer for Neurobiopsychology and Elisa and Sophie talked with him about his journey from Physics to Medicine to Neuroscience research. Besides his appreciation for the group of students at Osnabrück University, Prof. König also offers a quick ride through the very basics of neuroscience and how it can be applied to patients. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about the human brain, application-oriented research and the love to constant learning. References: Penrose, R. (1991). The emperor’s new mind. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Jolinde is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Biocognition group at the IKW Osnabrück. She is comparing bonobo and dolphin behavior, with a special focus on turn-taking in mother-child interactions – this may sound familiar, do you remember our episode with Bas van Boekholt on chimpanzee communication? If not, make sure to listen to it! And even though the researchers try not to disturb the animals, interactions are happening, both in the forest and in the sea. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about how in-field research with dolphins and great apes looks like and which funny situations researchers sometimes find themselves in. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
In many ways, Dr. Dr. Gregor Hörzer incorporates the “CogSci experience” – he studied telematics and by coincidence started visiting philosophy lectures. He ended up doing a PhD in both, studied philosophy of mind and worked as a computational neuroscientist. He is now the dean of studies and study coordinator at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. Recommended books: Goff, P. (2019): Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness. Rider/Penguin. Goff, P. (2023): Why? The Purpose of the Universe. Oxford University Press. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Sebastian Musslick studied Psychology and Neuroscience, did his PhD at Princeton and is now an Assistant Professor for Computational Neuroscience at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. Like many of our guests, he is very passionate about his research and is fascinated by the interdisciplinary work between Neuroscientists and Computer Scientists. Recommended paper: Schultz, W., Dayan, P., & Montague, P. R. (1997). A neural substrate of prediction and reward. Science, 275(5306), 1593-1599. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Every sentence that we speak can conceal a myriad of meanings. Dr. Asya Achimova is exploring linguistic nuance: While some researchers assume ambiguity to be hindering in communication, Asya Achimova explores how we resolve and intentionally use ambiguous language. She did her PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Rutgers University in New Jersey and is currently the substitute professor for Cognitive Modeling at the Institute of Cognitive in Osnabrück. Listen to this episode if you want to know more about why irony sometimes fails and what the theoretical basics for this mismatch are. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Piper has an interdisciplinary background in Psychology, Neuroscience and Machine Learning and is applying her knowledge in two amazing projects: For one, she is developing a wearable grasping assistant tool for the blind and visually impaired, and she is aiming to understand neural mechanisms to implement them in neuromorphic networks. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
The field of artificial intelligence has changed and grown a lot in the last 20 years. Prof. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger witnessed this change first hand – and was part of it. After studying Mathematics, Philosophy and Linguistics, and doing a PhD in Computational Linguistics, he then worked internationally as a researcher. Since 2009 he is the professor for Artificial Intelligence at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. Mentioned paper: Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., … & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention is all you need. Advances in neural information processing systems, 30. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Tracy Sánchez Pacheco is researching social facilitation in spatial navigation as a PhD student at the institute of Cognitive Science. Not only Tracy’s research area is super interesting, also her methods are: She is using Virtual Reality to put her participants into an environment of which she and her colleagues can control almost all aspects. Mentioned/recommended papers: Dalton, R. C., Hölscher, C., & Montello, D. R. (2019). Wayfinding as a social activity. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 142. [Topic: the general relevance of social stimuli in spatial navigation] Kuehn, E., Chen, X., Geise, P., Oltmer, J., & Wolbers, T. (2018). Social targets improve body-based and environment-based strategies during spatial navigation. Experimental Brain Research, 236, 755-764. [Topic: specific social facilitation] Hao, Q. Y., Jiang, R., Hu, M. B., Jia, B., & Wu, Q. S. (2011). Pedestrian flow dynamics in a lattice gas model coupled with an evolutionary game. Physical Review E, 84(3), 036107. [Topic: real-world behavior of people on the streets] Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Dr. Annette Hohenberger is a lecturer for Cognitive Neuropsychology and is especially interested in the Cognitive Development of children. Additionally to the research she is doing, she is also a member of the local Scientists for Future group. Among other things, the Scientists for Future are organizing a lecture series which is also available online. Regionalgruppe Osnabrück Mentioned paper: Turk-Browne, N. B., Scholl, B. J., & Chun, M. M. (2008). Babies and brains: habituation in infant cognition and functional neuroimaging. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2, 333. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
What does solving mysteries of the world have to do with brains? And how does one come from wanting to be a detective to research neural networks? In this episode, we’re talking to Viktoria Zemliak. She is currently doing her PhD in the neuroinformatics research group at the Institute for Cognitive Science at the University of Osnabrück. As in many episodes, we will learn a lot about why a person is fascinated by the human mind and how this person ended up researching in the field of Cognitive Science more by accident than intention. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Have you ever been in a “flow” state? Sleeping, dreaming, being stressed, being in “flow” – Altered states of consciousness are something we all experience every single day and yet there is a lot more research to be done. Linda Ariel Ventura may only be at the beginning of her academic career, but her enthusiasm for Cognitive Science is already infectious. She is a bachelor student at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück and a member of the Unimind initiative where she researches psychedelic science and altered states of consciousness. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
Adrien Doerig is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. He uses artificial neural networks to study visual processing and is also interested in consciousness research. Mentioned paper: Doerig, A., Sommers, R. P., Seeliger, K., Richards, B., Ismael, J., Lindsay, G. W., … & Kietzmann, T. C. (2023). The neuroconnectionist research programme. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 1-20. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
For this special episode we have no guest but the hosts become the guests and are interviewed by our producer Alina. We talk about what Cognitive Science is to us and why we are fascinated by it. Recommended resources: GODFREY-SMITH, Peter. Other minds: The octopus and the evolution of intelligent life. London: William Collins, 2016. BARRETT, Lisa Feldman. How emotions are made: The secret life of the brain. Pan Macmillan, 2017. HAWKINS, Jeff; BLAKESLEE, Sandra. On intelligence. Macmillan, 2004. SETH, Anil. Being you: A new science of consciousness. Penguin, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/Exurb1a Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder
As promised: Vanillekipferl (Vanilla crescents) Ingredients: 250 g wheat flour (type 405, all-purpose) (2 cups) 210 g butter (room temperature) (slightly less than 1 cup) 50 g ground almonds (1/2 cup) 50 g ground hazelnuts (1/2 cup) 90 g sugar (just under 1/2 cup) 1 pinch of salt 100 g powdered sugar (3/4 cup) 4 sachets vanilla sugar (1/4 cup total) Instructions: Knead together the flour, butter, sugar, ground nuts, and salt. Wrap the dough in cling film and place it in the fridge for about 60 minutes. Mix the powdered sugar with the vanilla sugar. Preheat the oven to 175 °C (350°F). Remove walnut-sized lumps from the dough, roll them between your palms, and shape them into crescents (=> kipferl). Place them on a baking tray with some space between them. Bake for approx. 10 - 12 minutes. They are ready when they just start to brown. Allow the kipferl to cool briefly and then carefully push them closer together. Sift the powdered sugar and vanilla sugar mixture generously over them. Leave the finished kipferl to cool completely before serving. Metric measurements were calculated by ChatGPT. If you want to get sure, use a kitchen scale * Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme and Leslie Wolk Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: kaleidopod@uos.de Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod
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Before diving into conversations on Cognitive Science, we talk about what this research field generally covers. We outline the different topics, dive into the historical origin of the field and talk about our reasons to create a podcast on Cognitive Science. And – most boldly – we try to explain, what Cognitive Science is (though finding words for this is rather tricky). Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 Cognitive Science Student Journal, Osnabrück University
Join us in our conversation on inner speech and consciousness. We explore the functionality of inner speech and raise the question if an AI could have inner speech. Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 Cognitive Science Student Journal, Osnabrück University Mentioned paper: Mann, Stephen Francis & Gregory, Daniel (forthcoming). Might text-davinci-003 have inner speech? Think. Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder