DFG SPP “The Active Self” Symposium: 25th-27th September 2024

Venue: Evangelische Akademie Tutzing

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Preceded by this year’s Summer School

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Symposium program Wednesday 25th of September

14:00Welcome: Markus Paulus
14:15Keynote 1: Daniela Corbetta
On the Emergence of the Active Self in Infancy
15:15Session 1: Developmental
15:15Matej Hoffmann
Czech Technical University in Prague
Understanding infant development through baby humanoid robots.
15:25Norbert Zmyj
TU Dortmund
Infants’ preference for delayed visual feedback revisited
15:45Coffee
16:15Flash Session 1
16:15Xia Xu
University of Frankfurt
Infants and mobiles: developing an understanding of cause and effect
16:25Konstantin Steinmassl
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
Malleability of the sense of bodily self in early childhood: 5- and 6-year-old children show the enfacement illusion
16:35Jason Khoury
Czech Technical University in Prague
Patterns of spontaneous self-touch and active exploration in the first year of life
16:45Sergiu Tcaci Popescu
Czech Technical University in Prague
Influence of touch duration on tactile localization on the arm
16:55Shreejata Gupta
Aix-Marseille Université
Offering and showing gestures in 12- to 15-month-old infants in natural contexts: A corpus-based study
17:05Keynote 2: Bernhard Hommel
Concepts of the self
18:00Dinner
20:30Poster session 1 & drinks

Symposium program Thursday 26th of September

8:00Breakfast
9:00Keynote 3: Kai Vogeley
Disorders of the self
10:00Session 2, Neuro
10:00Tim Möller
Humboldt University Berlin
Bridging Minds and Machines
10:20Fred Hamker
Technische Universität Chemnitz
A basal ganglia – thalamic prediction circuit for the active self
10:40Coffee
11:10Markus R. Tünte
University of Vienna
From Infant to Maternal Interoception
11:30Jan Pohl
Reconstructing the naïve theory of the self
11:40Amir Jahanian Najafabadi
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University
Time can be perceived depending on the space during virtual and physical active tool-use training in young and older adults
11:50Jieyi Liu
University of Birmingham
The free-floating baby hypothesis: The developmental construction of bodily and psychological selves in human infancy
12:00Nils Wendel Heinrich
Lübeck University
Two Types of Action Control in Response to Anticipating or Actually Experiencing a Loss of Control
12:30Lunch
14:20Session 4, Robotics & Modelling
14:20Josua Spisak
Hamburg University
How can human demonstrations be used to teach robots?
14:40Pablo Lanillos
Cajal International Neuroscience Center (CINC)
Why are robots NOT conscious?
15:00Coffee
15:30Flash session 3
15:30Verena Vanessa Hafner
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
An Embodied AI Approach to Measures of the Self
15:40Raz Leib
Technische Universität München
A modified Bayesian integration framework for the sense of agency
15:50Mateusz Woźniak
Italian Institute of Technology
Active Self and Robot Autonomy: investigating human-robot shared control
16:0020 min Break
16:20Keynote 4: Andrew Bremner (dev sc)
18:00The free-floating baby hypothesis: The developmental construction of bodily and psychological selves in human infancy
20:30Dinner
Poster session 2 & drinks

Symposium program Friday 27th of September

8:00Breakfast
9:00Keynote 5: Agnieszka Wykowska
Robots as partners, robots as tools – sense of agency in human-robot teamwork
10:00Coffee
10:30Session 5, Cognitive
10:30Amir Jahanian Najafabadi
Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bielefeld University
Extending perception: Tool Use and the Interplay of Body, Space, and Time
10:50Tim Möller
Humboldt University Berlin
A Comparative Assessment of Real-Time ECG Analysis with the ArdMob-ECG and the Introduction of the SMARDMOB-ECG
11:10Carlotta Langer
Hamburg University of Technology
Integrated Information in the Active Inference Framework
11:30Closing words: Verena Hafner
12:30Lunch