The Social Cognition in Humans and Robots Conference will take place from 27-28 September 2018 at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf.

The "Flexible Learning under Stress" Symposium, co-organized by the University of Hamburg, UKE, and Helmut Schmidt University, will take place from 20 to 21 September 2018.

Abstract I propose an integrative theory of cognition, derived from the principle of anticipatory behavior. Acknowledging that in the end all neural activities and encodings should serve homeostasis-oriented, behavioral control purposes –...

CML partners will organize a Workshop on Crossmodal Learning for Intelligent Robots at IEEE/RSJ IROS2018 in Madrid, Spain. Please click here for the workshop announcement and call for papers.

Abstract Sequential tasks such as Rosenthal's Centipede Game and Berg's Trust Game have long offered insights into human strategic thinking and behavioral economics. In particular, cooperation and trust, while precluded in these games by...

Abstract The way humans learn is very much affected by the fact that we have an embodiment - a physical location in the world, and the ability to change the world (both through physical interaction and through spoken and written...

The SFB 169 offers several scholarships for medical doctoral students.

The third CML project summer school will take place from September 10 to September 16 2018 at the Sino-German Center for Research Promotion in Beijing, China.

Prof. Dr. Brigitte Röder, principal investigator for CML project A1 and member of the CML coordinating board, was awarded the Hector Science Price and named a Hector Fellow on 26. January 2018. Please click here for details.

In this presentation, I will argue that we can make progress in language/vision tasks if we represent images in structured ways rather than just labeling objects, actions, or attributes. In particular, deploying structured representations...