29. September 2024 - Constantin gave a talk 'Reverse engineering goal directed sensorimotor behavior with inverse optimal control' in the '' workshop at the Physics of cognition: dynamical models of the ordered and disordered brain, Frankfurt Bernstein Conference
20. September 2024 – our collaborative AFI-DFG project 'A Shift towards Dynamic Perception Analysis with Continuous Psychophysics (SHIFT)' with is being funded! Thanks to the funding agencies, the German Research Foundation DFG and the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigatión (AEI). Joan Lopez Moliner
01-13 September 2024 – Dominik Straub is participating in the summer school, Rauischholzhausen Visual neuroscience from spikes to awareness
26-30 August 2024 – Tobias Niehues is participating in the in Paris, France ELLIS Doctoral Symposium
15 August – Jolande Fooken joined the lab as a postdoc. Welcome!
12-23 August 2024 – Tobias Thomas is participating in the at the Flatiron Institute, NYC, USA Analytical Connectionism Summer School
26 July 2024 – we are co-organizing the workshop on at the international conference on machine learning, Models of Human Feedback for AI Alignment ICML
24-27 July 2024 – we are presenting two posters at the in Rotterdam, Holland: 'If it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control' with Dominik Straub & 'Task diversity and human decision-making: a taxonomic view' with Inga Ibs, Claire Ott and Frank Jäkel Cognitive Science Conference
6 July 2024 – new paper out in Nature Communications: Fabian Kessler, Julia Frankenstein & Constantin A. Rothkopf Human navigation strategies and their errors result from dynamic interactions of spatial uncertainties
1-5 July 2024 – Constantin taught at the ELLIS on Collaborative and Generative AI at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finnland CoGenAi summer school
19 June 2024 – Fabian Kessler, Julia Frankenstein, and Constantin presented a poster 'Dynamic sequential interactions of spatial uncertainties shape human navigational strategies, their errors, and variability' at the in Merano, Italy 5th interdisciplinary navigation symposium iNAV2024
01 June 2024 – new collaborative paper out in the Journal of Vision with Jozsef Arato and Jozsef Fiser: Eye movements reflect active statistical learning
20 May 2024 – Constantin gave a talk entitled 'Open Questions in Animate Vision' at the in Austin, Texas, USA memorial symposium in honor of Dana Ballard
17 – 22 May 2024 – our lab presented two talks and four posters at the annual meeting, St. Pete, Florida, USA Vision Sciences Society
03 May 2024 - new paper out in Cognitive Science: S. Depeweg, C. A. Rothkopf, F. Jaekel. . Solving Bongard Problems with a visual language and pragmatic constraints
26 April 2024- Susanne Trick successfully defended her thesis 'Bayesian Fusion of Probabilistic Forecasts' with distinction- congratulations!
15 April 2024 – Tobias Niehues started as a PhD student in the lab- welcome!
11 April 2024 – Constantin gave a talk at nature conferences '' in Shenzhen, China Transformative Technologies for Neuroengineering
06 April 2024 - new paper accepted at the : D. Straub, C. A. Rothkopf. If it looks like online control, it is probably model-based control Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
05 April 2024 – new paper & book chapter out: F. Kessler, J. Frankenstein, C. A. Rothkopf. . In: Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, 2nd edition, edited by Jordan Grafman, Elsevier Navigation in real-world environments
18 March 2024 - together with we organized a symposium at Vivian Paulun 2024 in Regensburg: 'Seeing, thinking, and acting in a physical world' TeaP
02 February 2024 – both proposals we are contributing to and The adaptive mind made it to the second round of the Excellence Strategy: congratulations and a big thank you to everybody involved! Reasonable AI
23 January 2024 – Florian Kadner successfully defended his thesis 'Active vision as sequential decision-making under uncertainty' with distinction- congratulations!
12 January 2024 – new paper out: T. Thomas, D. Straub, F. Tatai, M. Shene, T. Tosik, K. Kersting & C. A. Rothkopf: , Nature Human Behaviour Modelling dataset bias in machine-learned theories of economic decision-making
24 November 2023 - new paper out: Trick, S., Rothkopf, C., & Jäkel, F: A normative model for Bayesian combination of subjective probability estimates. Judgment and Decision Making.
15 October 2023 – our symposium 'Seeing, thinking, and acting in a physical world' together with has been accepted at Vivian Paulun Teap 2024
05 October 2023 – Constantin gave a talk at the , University of Giessen Center for Mind, Brain and Behavior
29 August 2023 - Susanne Trick gave a talk 'What Can I Help You With: Towards Task-Independent Detection of Intentions for Interaction in a Human-Robot Environment' at the (RO-MAN), Busan, Kora IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
8 August 2023 – Constantin gave a talk 'Why are sensory, internal model, and action uncertainties inseparably intertwined in natural behavior?' and Fabian Tatai presented a poster 'People use Newtonian physics in intuitive sensorimotor decisions under risk' at the , Rauischholzhausen Workshop on Uncertainty in sensory processing and action control
28 July 2023 - Fabian Tatai gave a talk at the : 'People use Newtonian physics in intuitive sensorimotor decisions under risk' and Florian Kadner presented a poster 'Finding your way out: planning strategies in human maze-solving behavior', Sydney, Australia annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
21 July 2023 – Constantin gave a talk at the , Columbia University Zuckerman Institute for Mind, Brain, and Behavior
12 July 2023 – Constantin gave a talk at the group at MIT CoCoSci
25 May 2023 – we are happy to contribute to : Fabian Kessler, Julia Frankenstein, Constantin Rothkopf: 'Optimal feedback control under uncertainty explains errors, variability and behavioral strategies in human navigation' and Fabian Tatai, Dominik Straub, Constantin Rothkopf: 'Humans use Newtonian physics in intuitive sensorimotor decisions under risk' CCN
23 May 2023 – we presented a poster on multistep planning of eye movements in visual search at the conference on at the Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University Curiosity, Creativity and Complexity
19 May 2023 – Constantin gave a talk in the Symposium on Continuous Psychophysics at the in St. Pete Beach, USA Vision Sciences Annual Meeting
26 April 2023 – Congratulations to Susanne Trick, who has been selected as a recipient of the German (#KI-Newcomer*innen) which is awarded every two years by the AI-Newcomer Awards 2023 and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research German Informatics Society
21 April 2023 – new empirical study out on people learning to adjust their visuomotor interception strategies: Huaiyong Zhao, Dominik Straub, Constantin A. Rothkopf: , Psychological Research People learn a two-stage control for faster locomotor interception
06 April 2023 – two papers have been accepted at the : F. Kadner, H. Willkomm, I. Ibs, C. A. Rothkopf, Finding your way out: planning strategies in human maze-solving behavior and F. Tatai, D. Straub, C. A. Rothkopf, People use Newtonian physics in intuitive sensorimotor decisions under risk. Cognitive Science conference
21 February 2023 – Nils Neupaertl's PhD thesis: Interacting with an uncertain physical world: probabilistic models of human perception and action was selected as best PhD thesis in the department of human sciences in 2022. Congratulations!
21 January 2023 – our abstract Fabian Kessler, Julia Frankenstein, Constantin Rothkopf: 'Optimal control under uncertainty predicts variability in human navigation behavior' has been accepted to COSYNE
05 January 2023 - Florian Kadner and Tobias Thomas are presenting our poster 'Improving saliency models' predictions of the next fixation with humans' intrinsic cost of gaze shifts' at the IEEE/CVF (WACV) Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
14 December – Constantin gave a talk at the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience seminar at UKE, Hamburg-Eppendorf
01 December – Constantin gave a talk in the – Colloquium at the University of Goettingen SFB 1528 – Cognition of Interaction
03 November – Constantin gave a talk in the at the University of Ulm Colloquium Cognitive Systems
07 October - eLife published a digest about our continuous psychophysics paper entitled: . fixing misperceptions
06 October- Constantin gave a talk at the retreat of the research group Affective and cognitive mechanisms of specific Internet-use disorders (ACSID)
03 October – Constantin gave a colloquium talk at the at the University of Bern, Switzerland Bernese talks in Sport Science
16 September - our abstract: Claire Ott, Inga Ibs, Constantin Rothkopf, Frank Jäkel: 'Leveraging human optimization strategies for automatic explanation generation' has been accepted at the , Birkbeck, University of London workshop on human behavioral aspects of (X)AI
15 September – new paper accepted at the 36th (NeurIPS): Matthias Schultheis, Constantin A Rothkopf, Heinz Koeppl: Reinforcement Learning with Non-Exponential Discounting. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
05 September - we are presenting a poster at the biannual conference of the German cognitive science society in Freiburg: Vojtěch Rada, Julia Frankenstein, David Sedláček, Zdeněk Míkovec, Constantin A. Rothkopf: Towards understanding spatial illusions in architecture – a pilot study exploring factors influencing illusive perspectives. KogWis
1 September – Fabian Tatai started as a PhD student- welcome!
15 June - our keynote + tutorial 'Inverse optimal control for continuous psychophysics' has been accepted to the ! Conference on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
24 March – new publication in from our collaboration with Nature Machine Intelligence doing psychological experiments with large scale language models: Patrick Schramowski, Cigdem Turan, Nico Andersen, Constantin A. Rothkopf & Kristian Kersting: Large pre-trained language models contain human-like biases of what is right and wrong to do Kristian Kersting's lab
17 March – we have been awarded an grant by the European Research Council for our proposal ''ACTOR – Towards a computational account of natural sequential behavior“! Here the university's ERC Consolidator. press release
23 February - Dominik Straub received one of two for Vision Science, which are given annually to a graduate student or postdoctoral researcher attending the John I. Yellott Travel Awards to present research 'that provides new quantitative insights into the human visual system' for the contribution: Dominik Straub, Constantin Rothkopf. An analysis method for continuous psychophysics based on Bayesian inverse optimal control. Congratulations! Vision Sciences Annual Meeting
08 February 2022 – we are participating in the annual meeting with three talks and one poster: Florian Kadner, Tabea A Wilke, Thi DK Vo, David Hoppe, Constantin A Rothkopf: Trade-off between uncertainty reduction and reward collection reveals intrinsic cost of gaze switches; Dominik Straub, Constantin A. Rothkopf: An analysis method for continuous psychophysics based on Bayesian inverse optimal control; Tobias Thomas, David Hoppe, Constantin A. Rothkopf: Measuring the cost function of saccadic decisions reveals stable individual gaze preferences Vision Sciences Society
28 January 2022 – we are participating in : Dominik Straub, Matthias Schultheis, Constantin Rothkopf: Inferring implicit sensorimotor costs by inverse optimal control with signal dependent noise COSYNE
21 January 2022 – new paper accepted at the 25th (AISTATS): Susanne Trick, Constantin A Rothkopf: Bayesian Classifier Fusion with an Explicit Model of Correlation International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
12 January 2022 – Constantin gave a talk at the invited symposium on 'active learning' at the (BCCCD) Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development
08 December 2021 – new paper out: N. Neupärtl, F. Tatai, C. A. Rothkopf: , Cognitive Neuropsychology Naturalistic embodied interactions elicit intuitive physical behaviour in accordance with Newtonian physics
30 November 2021 – Constantin gave a talk in the in Tübingen: From ideal observers to bounded actors through inverse optimal control nip-colloquium
01 November 2021- Philipp Hummel joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
28 September 2021 – new paper accepted at the 35th (NeurIPS): Matthias Schultheis, Dominik Straub, Constantin A Rothkopf: Inverse Optimal Control Adapted to the Noise Characteristics of the Human Sensorimotor System Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
24 August 2021 – Constantin gave a talk 'Open problems in modeling naturalistic sequential behavior' at the Special Symposium in honor of Michael F. Land at the , ECVP European Conference on Visual Perception
July – August 2021 – Inga participated in the (OxML 2021) Oxford Machine Learning Summer School
05 – 23 July 2021 – Fabian participated in NeuroMatch Academy: Computational Neuroscience
12 May 2021 – we are presenting , our human-in-the-loop font that adapts its shape to the way readers interact with it at AdaptiFont, the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Watch the talk on CHI. youtube
01 February 2021 - we have been successful in two cluster grant applications. The collaborative cluster ”“ with the universities of Giessen and Marburg investigates the principles and computational basis for the balance between stability and change in human adaptability. The adaptive Mind
The second cluster, ”", in collaboration with AI center hessian.ai, the Goethe University, Frankfurt and the University Mainz, focuses on the development of a new generation of AI systems that are more human-like. The third wave of AI
04 December 2020 – Our collaborative has been approved for funding by the LOEWE Research Cluster WhiteBox. WhiteBox is joining the twin disciplines AI and Cognitive Science. Starting 2021, an interdisciplinary team will develop whitebox methods to foster human understanding of natural and artificial intelligence and its results. Hessian State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts
29 September 2020 – Constantin gave a talk 'Reverse engineering behavioral costs and benefits with inverse reinforcement learning' in the Workshop '' at the Inferring and testing optimality in perception and neurons Bernstein Conference
15 September 2020 – Constantin is part of the faculty of the ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) newly launched ELLIS Unit at TU Darmstadt
31 August 2020- we are part of the founding members of the Hessian Center for AI
06 July 2020 - in the popular science magazine 'Spektrum der Wissenschaft' together with Albert Newen, Nele Russwinkel and Martin V. Butz new article
24 June 2020 – Constantin gave a talk as part of smartstart's 'midsummerbrains- computational neuroscience from my point of view'
15 June 2020 – Niteesh Midlagajni joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
02 June 2020- Inga Ibs joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
15 May 2020 – invited keynote at the virtual , Universität Oldenburg, Germany Symposium on Explainable Machine Learning for Biomedical Data Analysis and Care Robotics
01 April 2020 – the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has approved our collaborative grant PlexPlain with , Kristian Kersting, and Frank Jaekel Florian Steinke
16 March 2020 - the lab is closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic
15 February 2020 – Fabian Kessler has joined the lab as PhD student- welcome!
10-14 February 2020 – Constantin is teaching at the in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Education at the University of Luxembourg together with Minds and Machines Workshop, Pedro Cardoso-Leite, and Paul Schrater Christophe Schommer