Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive Science

S3 #47 Does sign language change your brain? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Karen Emmorey.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:45:00 +0000

Literature: Emmorey, K. (2023). Ten things you should know about sign languages. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 32(5), 387-394.

The lab of Dr. Karen Emmorey: https://llcn.sdsu.edu/

Podcast Credits: Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder Write us an email to: kaleidopod@uos.de Contact us on Instagram: @kaleidoscience_pod

S3 #46 Why should we be vigilant when politicians talk? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Nicole Gotzner.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:45:00 +0000

The discussed paper: Gotzner, N. (accepted). Does it matter what is said and who said it? The interpretation of Trump’s and Harris’ statements in Republican and Democrat voters. To appear in Open Mind. PsyArXiv: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/a4u52_v1

References: Kuperwasser, I., & Shetreet, E. (2025). Beyond stereotypes: Cognitive abilities underlying social meaning. Journal of Pragmatics, 242, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2025.03.014

Sperber, D., Clément, F., Heintz, C., Mascaro, O., Mercier, H., Origgi, G., & Wilson, D. (2010). Epistemic vigilance. Mind & Language, 25(4), 359–393. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0017.2010.01394.x

Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and conversation. In Speech acts (pp. 41-58). Brill.

The mentioned shirt: https://www.netflix.shop/en-de/products/stranger-things-comfort-colors-t-shirt-beam-me-up

S3 #45 How do children learn adjectives? Brain-to-brain with Charlotte Uhlemann.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:45:00 +0000

References: Kennedy, C., & McNally, L. (2005). Scale structure, degree modification, and the semantics of gradable predicates. Language, 81(2), 345-381. Kennedy, C. (2007). Vagueness and grammar: The semantics of relative and absolute gradable adjectives. Linguistics and philosophy, 30(1), 1-45. Syrett, K. (2024). Challenges and Strategies for Acquiring Adjectives. Language and Linguistics Compass, 18(6), e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.70000 Tribushinina, E. (2018). Acquisition of adjectives across languages and populations: What’s wrong with them? Cahiers Du Centre de Linguistique et Des Sciences Du Langage, (56), 259–275. https://doi.org/10.26034/la.cdclsl.2018.257 Tribushinina, E., Van Den Bergh, H., Kilani-Schoch, M., Aksu-Koç, A., Dabašinskienė, I., Hrzica, G., … & Dressler, W. (2013). The role of explicit contrast in adjective acquisition: A cross-linguistic longitudinal study of adjective production in spontaneous child speech and parental input. First Language, 33(6), 594-616. Ricks, S. L., & Alt, M. (2016). Theoretical principles to guide the teaching of adjectives to children who struggle with word learning: Synthesis of experimental and naturalistic research with principles of learning theory. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 47(3), 181-190. Uhlemann, C., Wartenburger, I., & Hilton, M. (2023). Express yourself! Die Diagnostikinstrumente frühkindlicher Sprachentwicklung FRAKIS und SETK-2 im Vergleich. Spektrum Patholinguistik| 15, 107.

S3 #44 How should machines translate sensitive language? Brain-to-brain with Sabrina Frohn.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:31:27 +0000

Sabrina’s linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrina-frohn/ Papers: not THE implicit bias paper but one explaining implicit and explicit bias: “Social Justice in Our Minds, Homes, and Society: The Nature, Causes, and Consequences of Implicit Bias” by Laurie A. Rudman, 10.1023/B:SORE.0000027406.32604.f6

about the implicit association test I mentioned: https://www.projectimplicit.net/nosek/iat/default.html (I was not able to find the study I participated in, but I assume it is similar to this, perhaps was even based on this.)

bias in machine translations: „Gender Bias in Machine Translation Systems“ Stefanie Ullmann et al., isbn: 978-3-030-88615-8 “What about em? How Commercial Machine Translation Fails to Handle (Neo-)Pronouns, Lauscher et al., 10.48550/arXiv.2305.16051

comparing LLM and MT “Benchmarking Machine Translation with Cultural Awareness” by Binwei Yao, 10.48550/arXiv.2305.14328 „Evaluating Gender Bias in Machine Translation“, Stanovski et al., 10.18653/v1/P19-1164

machtsprache: https://www.machtsprache.de/

macht.sprache plugins: chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/machtsprache-for-sensitiv/dichlnekfmanlagciihdnkgiefppilol firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/macht-sprache/

interesting reads: „The complexities of linguistic discrimination“, Drożdżowicz et al., 10.1080/09515089.2024.2307993 “On the Translation of Otherness: The Univocal Case of Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, Badenes, 10.7202/1068906ar “Word embeddings quantify 100 years of gender and ethnic stereotypes”, Garg et al., 10.1073/pnas.1720347115 https://pocolit.com/

Sabrina’s paper: https://publications.waset.org/10014353/bibtex

S3 #43 How do parasocial relationships with chatbots form? Brain-to-brain with Takuya Maeda.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:53:18 +0000

References: https://apnews.com/article/chatbot-ai-lawsuit-suicide-teen-artificial-intelligence-9d48adc572100822fdbc3c90d1456bd0 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/23/technology/characterai-lawsuit-teen-suicide.html https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/ https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-created-flirty-chatbots-taylor-swift-other-celebrities-without-permission-2025-08-29/ https://futurism.com/woman-suicide-openai-therapist https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-suicide-alleges-openais-chatgpt-blame-rcna226147 https://itif.org/publications/2025/05/21/ai-companions-risk-over-regulation-with-state-legislation/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/companion-ai-emotional-support-chatbots-1.7620087 https://nypost.com/2025/05/12/lifestyle/woman-married-to-an-ai-robot/ https://metro.co.uk/2025/07/14/married-ai-bot-human-wife-doesnt-mind-23628030/ https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/M/bo3618528.html https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2007-13558-002 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/race-after-technology

S3 #42 What does the research say about Science Communication? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Rainer Bromme.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:11:56 +0000

Literature: Bromme, R. (2025). Objektiv und unabhängig, aber auch wirksam für das Gemeinwohl: Vertrauen im Kontext öffentlicher Erwartungen an Wissenschaft. In P. Sandermann & V. Schwenker (Eds.), Trust Issues!? - Vertrauen in modernen Gesellschaften. (pp. 233-243). transcript. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.14361/9783839470879

Bromme, R. (2025). Wissenschaftskommunikation. In P. Pasternack, G. Reinmann, & C. Schneijderberg (Eds.), Hochschulforschung: Forschung über Hochschule und Wissenschaft (pp. 511-520). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783748943334

Bromme, R., & Gierth, L. (2021). Rationality and the public understanding of science. In M. Knauff & W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook of Rationality (pp. 767-776). MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

Bromme, R., Mede, N., Thomm, E., Kremer, B., & Ziegler, R. (2022). An anchor in troubled times: Trust in science before and within the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 17(2):e0262823. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262823

Bromme, R. & Hendriks, F. (2023). Trust in science: considering whom to trust for knowing what is true. In R.C. Mayer & B. Mayer (Eds.). A Research Agenda for Trust: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 37-49). Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-research-agenda-for-trust-9781802200935.html

Bromme, R. (2022). Informiertes Vertrauen in Wissenschaft: Lehren aus der COVID-19 Pandemie für das Verständnis naturwissenschaftlicher Grundbildung (scientific literacy). Unterrichtswissenschaft, 50(3), 331-345. doi:10.1007/s42010-022-00159-6

Hendriks, F. & Bromme, R. (2022). Researchers’ Public Engagement in the Context of Interdisciplinary Research Programs: Learning and Reflection from Boundary Crossing. Science Communication, 44(6), 693-718. doi:10.1177/10755470221137052

Wintterlin, F., Hendriks, F., Mede, N. G., Bromme, R., Metag, J., & Schäfer, M. S. (2022). Predicting public trust in science: The role of basic orientations toward science, perceived trustworthiness of scientists, and experiences with science. Frontiers in Communication, 6:822757. doi:10.3389/fcomm.2021.822757 2021

Bromme, R., & Gierth, L. (2021). Rationality and the public understanding of science. In M. Knauff & W. Spohn (Eds.), Handbook of Rationality (pp. 767-776). MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

How can you communicate science through books? SciCom-Special #7 with Dr. Nicholas Wright.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:59:41 +0000

Order the book: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/nicholas-wright/warhead/9781035013982

Nicholas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-d-wright-bba3a065/

Nicholas on X: https://x.com/nicholasdwright

How can you communicate science with comics? SciCom-Special #6 with Dr. Sophie Elschner.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:43:48 +0000

Find Sophies works:

Website: https://psychosophcomic.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychosophcomic/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/psychosoph.bsky.social

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/psychosoph/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@psychosophcomic

Newsletter: https://16969776.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAIvA9R-8FBixNmAS194n9r-ZlFB5B3PTfFIaoY5Mau_R9ZZYrUpK9w7XYYc3RkHTgVu9N43iut8Ih3p1LXCTdnbRHIf-5l9dFVcXai4bJE6VfmOZk135dXybNLfSjaPby2EB_RR18dnUfXPgnx_-J9-_BvfT8Ntmb2YSL8kLmD19DMMWz0WHIK650MheVjeYVZRQEiBmECBS

Personal website: https://elschner.science/

Comics we talked about:

Visual Cliff: https://psychosophcomic.com/2024/09/15/babies-in-front-of-the-abyss-the-visual-cliff/

yawning: https://psychosophcomic.com/2022/07/10/put-your-hand-in-front-of-your-mouth-why-do-we-yawn/

Shoutouts:

David Spencer: https://www.instagram.com/davidspencerofficial/?hl=en

Science & Fiction: https://scienceandfiction.net/ (you can also listen to our episodes with Helena https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HyJyn7pVteKMmHrv8d7To?si=d4qULUSSQpGUoIiH2CytwA, https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/s2-21-how-does-your-pain-make-me-feelbrain-to-brain-with-dr-helena-hartmann/)

How can you communicate science on a boat? SciCom-Special #5 with Babette Jochum from the MS Wissenschaft.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:45:00 +0000

The website of MS Wissenschaft: https://ms-wissenschaft.de/de/ The instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/mswissenschaft/

The recommended show: https://www.zdf.de/shows/mai-think-x-die-show-102

How can you communicate science with animated videos? SciCom-Special #4 with Şeyma Türk and Julia Ruff from Empathique.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:39:37 +0000

The YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Empathique

The channel recommended by Julia: https://www.youtube.com/@ruthmicallef

How can we communicate the successes and failures of research? SciCom-Special #3 with Evelyne Fraats.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 10:45:00 +0000

Links provided by Evelyne:

In-Mind blog (Dutch version)

https://nl.in-mind.org

In-Mind blog (international version)

https://www.in-mind.org

Two of my blogs for In-Mind (Dutch only)

https://nl.in-mind.org/blog/post/gebruik-koud-water-om-angst-te-verminderen

https://nl.in-mind.org/blog/post/ik-heb-het-gedaan-maar-heb-ik-het-ook-echt-gedaan

Dutch Brainbee (in Dutch called, “Hersenolympiade”)

Https://hersenolympiade.nl/en/

International brain bee

https://www.thebrainbee.org/

Festivals I like

https://www.dagvandewetenschap.be

https://wisenight.eu

https://www.pintofscience.be

https://www.wetenschapscafe.be/nl

Science blogs / stories I like:

https://www.eoswetenschap.eu

https://scienceandfiction.net/stories/22_to-obey-or-not-to-obey

Books I am currently reading:

Of my PI https://www.amazon.nl/Just-Following-Orders-Atrocities-Obedience/dp/1009385437

Book from my sister: https://www.amazon.com/Lucifer-Effect-Understanding-Good-People/dp/0812974441

My personal platforms

https://www.linkedin.com/in/evelynefraats-research-sciencecommunication-researchgoodsbads-moralbrain-socialbrain?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=android_app

https://bsky.app/profile/eic-fraats.bsky.social

My lab https://moralsocialbrain.com/

Podcast Credits:

Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme

Logo by: Annika Richter

Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

Write us an email to: kaleidopod@uos.de

S3 #41 What is the effect of stress hormones on cognition? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Katja Langer.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:15:00 +0000

How do you explain research using a fictional story? SciCom-Special #2 with Dr. Helena Hartmann.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 10:45:00 +0000

Helena’s website: https://scienceandfiction.net/

The first episode with Helena: https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/s2-21-how-does-your-pain-make-me-feelbrain-to-brain-with-dr-helena-hartmann/

Helena’s recommendations: https://treatment-expectation.de/ https://www.youtube.com/@maithinkx

How can you communicate science live on stage? SciCom-Special #1 with Dr. Nicolas Wöhrl.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:30:33 +0000

Get a ticket for a live show: https://minkorrekt.de/minkorrekt-live/ Listen to the podcast: https://minkorrekt.de/ The episode on „Ig-Nobelpreise 2024“: https://minkorrekt.de/mi328-ig-nobelpreise-2024/ Nicolas’ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nicolas_woehrl

S3 #40 How do hormones influence our cognition? Brain-to-brain with Assoc. Prof. Caroline Gurvich.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:45:00 +0000

https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/caroline-gurvich

S3 #39 What do hormones have to do with everything from menstruation to menopause? Brain-to-brain with Franziska Weinmar.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:37:20 +0000

Papers:

Zsido, R. G., Williams, A. N., Barth, C., Serio, B., Kurth, L., Mildner, T., … & Sacher, J. (2023). Ultra-high-field 7T MRI reveals changes in human medial temporal lobe volume in female adults during menstrual cycle. Nature Mental Health, 1(10), 761-771.

Gottschewsky, N., Kraft, D., & Kaufmann, T. (2024). Menarche, pubertal timing and the brain: female-specific patterns of brain maturation beyond age-related development. Biology of sex Differences, 15(1), 25.

Pletzer, B., Bodenbach, H., Hoehn, M., Hajdari, L., Hausinger, T., Noachtar, I., & Beltz, A. M. (2024). Reproducible stability of verbal and spatial functions along the menstrual cycle. Neuropsychopharmacology, 49(6), 933-941.

Pletzer, B., Harris, T. A., Scheuringer, A., & Hidalgo-Lopez, E. (2019). The cycling brain: menstrual cycle related fluctuations in hippocampal and fronto-striatal activation and connectivity during cognitive tasks. Neuropsychopharmacology, 44(11), 1867-1875.

Pletzer, B., Harris, T., & Hidalgo-Lopez, E. (2018). Subcortical structural changes along the menstrual cycle: beyond the hippocampus. Scientific reports, 8(1), 16042.

Podcast of the International Research Training Group IRTG 2804:

Example for the mentioned graph:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44294-025-00078-8/figures/1

Podcast Credits:

Produced by: Imogen Hüsing, Clara Kühne, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf and Elisa Palme

Logo by: Annika Richter

Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

Write us an email to: kaleidopod@uos.de

S3 #38 How can AI model the sensorimotor system? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Tonio Weidler.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:50:45 +0000

Has it been two years already? Bonus-to-brain with Elisa, Imogen, Sönke and Sophie.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:01:17 +0000

Here is the link to the feedback survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSciMt9WSchCR7IpFOy9mjixCukl9411DRoK56odhqJSzN_euw/viewform

S2 #37 Does social media shape trans identity and coming out? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Gen Eickers.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 10:07:53 +0000

References: Briggs, R. A., & George, B. R. (2023). What even is gender? (p. 196). Taylor & Francis. Eickers, G. Social Media Experiences of LGBTQ+ People: Enabling Feelings of Belonging. Topoi 43, 617–630 (2024). https://tgeu.org/

S2 #36 What does Kant have to do with Gender and Feminism? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Carol Hay.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:32:30 +0000

References:

https://www.carolhay.org/

Hay, C. (2020). Think like a feminist: the philosophy behind the revolution. WW Norton & Company.

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

S2 #35 How do gender stereotypes affect non-binary people? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Robert-Paul Juster & Mina Guérin.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:47:08 +0000

Literature:

Guérin, M., Saulnier, F., Cartier, L., Hirnstein, M., Hétu, S., & Juster, R. P. (2025). Explicit Gender Stereotypes and Sexually Polymorphic Cognition by Gender Identity.

https://nouvelles.umontreal.ca/en/article/2024/04/09/who-does-what-better-a-non-binary-view/

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

S2 #34 How and why does AI model how your neurons spike? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Pascal Nieters.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:21:57 +0000

Literature will be added soon.

S2 #33 How can modeling our decisions improve our lives? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Nadja R. Ging-Jehli.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 22 May 2025 09:29:01 +0000

Literature: Forstmann, B. U., Ratcliff, R., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2016). Sequential Sampling Models in Cognitive Neuroscience: Advantages, Applications, and Extensions. Annual Review of Psychology, 67(1), 641–666.

Forstmann, B. U., & Wagenmakers, E.-J. (2015). Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience: A Conceptual Introduction. In B. U. Forstmann & E.-J. Wagenmakers (Eds.), An Introduction to Model-Based Cognitive Neuroscience (pp. 139–156). Springer.

Ging Jehli, N. R., Arnold, L. E., & Van Zandt, T. (2023). Cognitive & attentional mechanisms of cooperation: Implications for incentive designs and computational psychiatry.

Ging-Jehli, N. R., Kuhn, M., Blank, J. M., Chanthrakumar, P., Steinberger, D. C., Yu, Z., Herrington, T. M., Dillon, D. G., Pizzagalli, D. A., & Frank, M. J. (2024). Cognitive signatures of depressive and anhedonic symptoms, and affective states, using computational modeling and neurocognitive testing. Biological Psychiatry Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, S2451-9022(24)00056-9.

Ging-Jehli, N. R., Ratcliff, R., & Arnold, L. E. (2021). Improving neurocognitive testing using computational psychiatry—A systematic review for ADHD. Psychological Bulletin, 147(2), 169–231.

Ratcliff, R. (1978). A theory of memory retrieval. Psychological Review, 85(2), 59–108.

Smith, P. L., & Ratcliff, R. (2004). Psychology and neurobiology of simple decisions. Trends in Neurosciences, 27(3), 161–168.

Van Zandt, T. (2002). Analysis of Response Time Distributions. In Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Methodology in Experimental Psychology (Vol. 4, pp. 461–516). John Wiley & Sons.

Wald, A., & Wolfowitz, J. (1949). Bayes Solutions of Sequential Decision Problems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 35(2), 99–102.

S2 #32 How can AI model our brains? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. Tim C Kietzmann.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:45:00 +0000

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

S2 #31 Can AI make its own music? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:45:00 +0000

S2 #30 What happens when we make music? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Jesper Hohagen.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:45:00 +0000

(1) influence of the mozart effect on US-american education politics in the case of Georgia 1998 (New York Times article from 1998)

(2) link between music and neuroendocrinology (two reviews)

Kreutz, Gunter, Cynthia Quiroga Murcia, and Stephan Bongard, 'Psychoneuroendocrine Research on Music and Health: An Overview', in Raymond MacDonald, Gunter Kreutz, and Laura Mitchell (eds), Music, Health, and Wellbeing (Oxford, 2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 May 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586974.003.0030,

Harvey AR (2020) Links Between the Neurobiology of Oxytocin and Human Musicality. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 14:350. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00350

(3) perception of prototypical (musical) movements and the relevance of fluency/smoothness

Wöllner, C., Deconinck, F. J. A., Parkinson, J., Hove, M. J., & Keller, P. E. (2012). The perception of prototypical motion: Synchronization is enhanced with quantitatively morphed gestures of musical conductors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 38(6), 1390–1403. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0028130

Vogel, T., Ingendahl, M., & Winkielman, P. (2021). The architecture of prototype preferences: Typicality, fluency, and valence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150, 187–194. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000798

(4) discussion on lullabies as a musical universal

Aubinet, S. (2024). Lullabies and Universality: An Ethnographic Review. Cross-Cultural Research, 58(5), 411-446. https://doi.org/10.1177/10693971241272406

(5) functional approach to musical gestures

Dahl, S., Bevilacqua, F., & Bresin, R. (2010). Gestures in performance. In musical Gestures (pp. 48-80). Routledge.

(6) “chior effect”

Kreutz, G., Bongard, S., Rohrmann, S., Hodapp, V., & Grebe, D. (2004). Effects of choir singing or listening on secretory immunoglobulin A, cortisol, and emotional state. Journal of behavioral medicine, 27, 623-635.

(7) Musical proto language

Fitch, W. T. (2010). The evolution of language. Cambridge University Press.

(8) book recommendation

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

S2 #29 How does working memory influence your attention and intelligence? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Klaus Oberauer.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 10:45:00 +0000

Literature: Dames, H., & Oberauer, K. (2022). Directed forgetting in working memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(12), 2990.

S2 #28 Can meditation influence your attention? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Paul Verhaeghen.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:23:18 +0000

For the third episode in our new block on the topic attention we are talking to Prof. Paul Verhaeghen.

Papers:

Baer, R. A., Smith, G. T., Hopkins, J., Krietemeyer, J., & Toney, L. (2006). Using self-report assessment methods to explore facets of mindfulness. Assessment, 13, 27–45.

Lipsey, M. W., & Wilson, D. B. (1993). The efficacy of psychological, educational, and behavioral treatment: confirmation from meta-analysis. American Psychologist, 48, 1181–1209.

Luders, E. (2014). Exploring age‐related brain degeneration in meditation practitioners. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1307(1), 82-88.

Sedlmeier, P., Eberth, J., Schwarz, M., Zimmermann, D., Haarig, F., Jaeger, S., & Kunze, S. (2012). The psychological effects of meditation: a meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 138(6), 1139.

Van Vugt, M. K., & Slagter, H. A. (2014). Control over experience? Magnitude of the attentional blink depends on meditative state. Consciousness and cognition, 23, 32-39.

Verhaeghen, P. (2021). Mindfulness as attention training: Meta-analyses on the links between attention performance and mindfulness interventions, long-term meditation practice, and trait mindfulness. Mindfulness, 12, 564-581.

Books: Amishi Jha (2021). Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day, HarperOne

Dan Harris (2014). 10% Happier, Dey Street Books.

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

S2 #27 What if ADHD isn’t just about attention? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Ellie Dommett.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 10:45:00 +0000

For the second episode in our new block on the topic attention we are talking to Prof. Ellie Dommett.

Recommended resources:

Open Access short courses on ADHD:

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/understanding-adhd ScienceDaily has some great short articles on ADHD and they are all listed here: https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/mind_brain/add_and_adhd/

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

S2 #26 Do pictures aid our ability to read or do they steal attention? Brain-to-brain with Eirini Christina Kalogeropoulou.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 10:45:00 +0000

For the first episode in our new block on the topic attention we are talking to Eirini Kalogeropoulou.

References: Simons, D. J., & Chabris, C. F. (1999). Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events. Perception, 28(9), 1059–1074. https://doi.org/10.1068/p2952

Dimigen, O., Sommer, W., Hohlfeld, A., Jacobs, A. M., & Kliegl, R. (2011). Coregistration of eye movements and EEG in natural reading: Analyses and review. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 140(4), 552-572.10.1037/a0023885

Degno, F., & Liversedge, S. P. (2020). Eye movements and fixation-related potentials in reading: A Review. Vision, 4(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/vision4010011

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

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Christmas Special 2024. Bonus-to-Brain with your hosts and producersChristmas Special

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:45:00 +0000

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 *

S2 #25 Can AI help us treat Parkinson’s disease? Brain-to-brain with Christopher Gundler.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:45:00 +0000

A short hint: Christopher used the term “Coxi” that just means Cognitive Science or someone studying Cognitive Science.

References: An overview over wearables and parkinsons: https://doi.org/10.3390/s22051799 More on the topic of hypomimia: https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci14010109 A discussion on limits of in Clinics: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01614-0

The previous episode with Elisa Percolla: https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/10-neural-correlates-of-parkinsons-disease-brain-to-brain-with-elisa-percolla/

S2 #24 Can a bracelet help you see? Brain-to-brain with Marcin Furtak.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:45:00 +0000

This episode presents research by Marcin Furtak, a Marie-Curie fellow of the OptiVisT ITN. OptiVisT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 955590

Resources: The episode with Susan Wache on the feelSpace belt: https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/how-can-we-feel-space-brain-to-brain-with-susan-wache/ The episode with Piper Powell on the feelSpace bracelet: https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/podcast/on-implementing-brains-seeing-with-hands-brain-to-brain-with-piper-powell-special-6/ The first published bracelet paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/24/9/2949 two papers on the naviBelt: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00037/full https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/21/21/7384 YOLOv5 code repository and its documentation: https://github.com/ultralytics/yolov5 https://docs.ultralytics.com/yolov5/ Marcin’s OptiVisT bio: https://www.optivist.eu/esr-10 The feelSpace website: https://feelspace.de/

S2 #23 What does a (brain) pacemaker do in your brain? Brain-to-brain with Dora Meyer-Doll.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:45:00 +0000

Doras ongoing study: https://www.drks.de/DRKS00024593

Literature: Gadot, Ron et al. “Efficacy of deep brain stimulation for treatment-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder: systematic review and meta-analysis.” Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry, jnnp-2021-328738. 20 Sep. 2022, doi:10.1136/jnnp-2021-328738 Schläpfer, T.E., Kayser, S. “Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment-Resistant Depression” Klin Neurophysiol 2014; 45: 113–117, http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1375605 Human Medial Forebrain Bundle (MFB) and Anterior Thalamic Radiation (ATR): Imaging of Two Major Subcortical Pathways and the Dynamic Balance of Opposite Affects in Understanding Depression Volker A. Coenen, M.D. Jaak Panksepp, Ph.D. Trevor A. Hurwitz, M.D. Horst Urbach, M.D. Coenen, V.A.; Schlaepfer, T.E.; Sajonz, B.E.A.; Reinacher, P.C.; Döbrössy, M.D.; Reisert, M. “The Heart Asks Pleasure First”— Conceptualizing Psychiatric Diseases as MAINTENANCE Network Dysfunctions through Insights from slMFB DBS in Depression and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder. Brain Sci. 2022, 12, 438. https:// doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12040438 Deep Brain Stimulation of the Human Reward System for Major Depression—Rationale, Outcomes and Outlook Thomas E Schlaepfer*,1,2, Bettina H Bewernick1, Sarah Kayser1, Rene Hurlemann1 and Volker A Coenen3

A book on the topic: The pleasure shock, Lone Frank Some (german) documentaries: Hunting For Hedonia ( https://vimeo.com/ondemand/huntingforhedonia/363300769?autoplay=1 ) Schrittmacher gegen Depressionen( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZPB2TKUhYE ) Landesschau Baden-Württemberg: Ein Schrittmacher im Hirn bändigt seine Depression ( https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/landesschau-baden-wuerttemberg/ein-schrittmacher-im-hirn-baendigt-seine-depression/swr-bw/Y3JpZDovL3N3ci5kZS9hZXgvbzE5MTQzOTA )

S2 #22 Can we get used to our pain? Brain-to-brain with Maite van der Miesen.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:45:00 +0000

Literature:

Christoffersen, G. R. J. (1997). Habituation: events in the history of its characterization and linkage to synaptic depression. A new proposed kinetic criterion for its identification. Progress in neurobiology, 53(1), 45-66.

van den Broeke, E. N., Crombez, G., & Vlaeyen, J. W. (2024). Reconceptualizing sensitization in pain: back to basics. Pain reports, 9(1), e1125.

Velasco, E., Flores-Cortes, M., Guerra-Armas, J., Flix-Díez, L., Gurdiel-Álvarez, F., Donado-Bermejo, A., ... & Delicado-Miralles, M. (2024). Is chronic pain caused by central sensitization? A review and critical point of view. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105886. https://www.forbes.com/health/mind/what-is-neurofeedback-therapy/

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

S2 #21 How does your pain make me feel? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Helena Hartmann.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:45:00 +0000

Remifentanyl study: https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scitranslmed.3001244

Studies on expectation: https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2023.853490 https://www.iasp-pain.org/resources/fact-sheets/placebo-and-nocebo-effects-the-importance-of-treatment-expectations-and-patient-physician-interaction-for-treatment-outcomes/ https://journals.lww.com/painrpts/fulltext/2024/04000/translating_knowledge_on_placebo_and_nocebo.22.aspx?context=latestarticles

Helena’s phd studies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192030882X https://academic.oup.com/cercorcomms/article/2/3/tgab039/6291206 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976221119727 https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-023-00189-6

Studies on autism: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-007-0486-x https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.813969/full

Further websites: www.helenahartmann.com, www.bingellab.de, www.treatment-expectation.de

Science and Fiction: www.scienceandfiction.net

S2 #20 What can we do about chronic back pain? Brain-to-brain with Dr. Janosch Priebe.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:45:00 +0000

For our first episode in our thematic block about pain we talked to Dr. Janosch Priebe. In this episode, he goes into detail about chronic pain, how it is different to acute pain and treatment options.

References: McCarberg, B., & Peppin, J. (2019). Pain pathways and nervous system plasticity: learning and memory in pain. Pain Medicine, 20(12), 2421-2437. Horn‐Hofmann, C., Scheel, J., Dimova, V., Parthum, A., Carbon, R., Griessinger, N., … & Lautenbacher, S. (2018). Prediction of persistent post‐operative pain: Pain‐specific psychological variables compared with acute post‐operative pain and general psychological variables. European Journal of Pain, 22(1), 191-202. Priebe, J. A., Kerkemeyer, L., Haas, K. K., Achtert, K., Moreno Sanchez, L. F., Stockert, P., … & Toelle, T. R. (2024). Medical app treatment of non-specific low back pain in the 12-month cluster-randomized controlled trial rise-uP: where clinical superiority meets cost savings. Journal of Pain Research, 2239-2255. Toelle, T. R., Utpadel-Fischler, D. A., Haas, K. K., & Priebe, J. A. (2019). App-based multidisciplinary back pain treatment versus combined physiotherapy plus online education: a randomized controlled trial. NPJ digital medicine, 2(1), 34.

Season 2 Announcement. Bonus-to-brain with Elisa, Imogen, Sophie and Sönke.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:45:00 +0000

Has it been a year already? Bonus-to-brain with Sophie, Elisa and Sönke

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:45:00 +0000

And with this, our first season comes to an end.

In our last episode before our summer break, we're talking about one year of podcasting - and honestly: what a year it was!

We're taking some weeks of and will be back with new episodes in September.

Credits:

Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

Logo by: Annika Richter

Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

S1 #19 How does the world shape our emotions? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. phil. Achim Stephan.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 09:45:00 +0000

References:

Jacobs, Kerrin, Achim Stephan, Asena Paskaleva & Wendy Wilutzky (2014). Existential and Atmospheric Feelings in Depressive Comportment. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 21(2), 89-110 (erschienen im März 2015).

Ratcliffe, M. 2008. Feelings of being. Phenomenology, psychiatry and the sense of reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scherer, Klaus (2005). What are emotions? Social Science Information, 44, 695–729.

Slaby, J. (2016). Mind invasion: Situated affectivity and the corporate life hack. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 266. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg. 2016.00266

Stephan, Achim (2017). Moods in Layers. Philosophia 45, 1481-1495. doi: 10.1007/s11406-017-9841-0

Stephan, A., & Walter, S. (2020). Situated affectivity. In T. Szanto, & H. Landweer (Eds.), The routledge handbook of the phenomenology of emotion (pp. 299–311). Routledge.

Credits:

Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

Logo by: Annika Richter

Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

S1 #18 What makes science to be good? Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. Michael Franke.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:45:00 +0000

Why do psychologists need statistics if they study the human mind?

Professor Michael Franke studied and taught at Osnabrück University and now teaches at the University of Tübingen. He explains how his scientific pathway led him to study language and formal logic to better understand underlying statistical ideas. He explains the importance of methods in the field of cognitive science and the large impact they have on our understanding of the world. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about the relevance of statistics, why it actually is fascinating to do statistics and where we might need to change our minds when it comes to teaching basic knowledge in the university context.

Correction: “The ‘hard-headed cowboy … with a Stradivarius violin’ is NOT by Popper himself, but used by Peter Godfrey-Smith in his book ‘Theory & Reality’ as a description of Popper’s views.” Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

S1 #17 How can AI decode the brain’s messages to move? Brain-to-brain with Mo Nipshagen.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 30 May 2024 09:45:44 +0000

Did you know that your brain keeps sending signals to move your limbs even when your paralyzed? Mo Nipshagen is a PhD candidate at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen. Together with their colleagues, they develop Brain-Computer-Interfaces to enable locked-in and paralyzed patients to interact with the world around them. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about the future of paralysis treatment and how computers can interact with the human brain.

Resources: Berezutskaya, J., Saive, AL., Jerbi, K., Gerven, M.v. (2023). How Does Artificial Intelligence Contribute to iEEG Research?. In: Axmacher, N. (eds) Intracranial EEG. Studies in Neuroscience, Psychology and Behavioral Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20910-9_47

Vansteensel, M.J., Pels, E.G., Bleichner, M.G., Branco, M.P., Denison, T.J., Freudenburg, Z.V., Gosselaar, P., Leinders, S., Ottens, T.H., van den Boom, M.A., van Rijen, P.C., Aarnoutse, E.J., & Ramsey, N.F. (2016). Fully Implanted Brain-Computer Interface in a Locked-In Patient with ALS. The New England journal of medicine, 375 21, 2060-2066. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1608085

Anumanchipalli, G.K., Chartier, J., & Chang, E.F. (2019). Speech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences. Nature, 568, 493 – 498. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1119-1

Ottenhoff, M. C., Verwoert, M., Goulis, S., Colon, A. J., Wagner, L., Tousseyn, S., van Dijk, J. P., Kubben, P. L., & Herff, C. (2023). Decoding executed and imagined grasping movements from distributed non-motor brain areas using a Riemannian decoder. In Frontiers in Neuroscience (Vol. 17). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1283491

https://www.intenseproject.eu

Credits: Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

S1 #16 How does our brain handle distractions? Brain-to-brain with Erik Nickel.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 16 May 2024 09:45:58 +0000

S1 #15 Can computers be creative? Brain-to-brain with Assistant Prof. Philipp Wicke.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:45:28 +0000

What does it mean for a system to be creative? Can humans and machines be creative together? How has the definition of machine creativity changed over the years? Philipp Wicke is an Assistant Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München and is asking exactly these questions in his research. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about creative computers and how they have developed and further evolved over the past years!

References:

Boden, Margaret A. “Creativity and artificial intelligence.” Artificial intelligence 103.1-2 (1998): 347-356.
Ventura, Dan. “Mere generation: Essential barometer or dated concept.” Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity. Sony CSL, 2016.
Gervás, Pablo. “Computational approaches to storytelling and creativity.” AI Magazine 30.3 (2009): 49-49.
Veale, Tony. “Exploding the Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations of Linguistic Creativity” Bloomsbury, 2012. ISBN 978-1-4411-8172-5.” (2017): 52-54.
Varela, Francisco J., Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch. The embodied mind, revised edition: Cognitive science and human experience. MIT press, 2017.
Newen, Albert, Leon De Bruin, and Shaun Gallagher, eds. The Oxford handbook of 4E cognition. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Di Paolo, Ezequiel A., Elena Clare Cuffari, and Hanne De Jaegher. Linguistic bodies: The continuity between life and language. MIT press, 2018.

Credits:

Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge

Logo by: Annika Richter

Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

S1 #14 What is autism? A multifaceted perspective. Brain-to-brain with Ibrahim Muhip Tezcan.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 09:45:51 +0000

We had the pleasure to talk to Ibrahim Muhip Tezcan about autism.

We discuss autistic traits, what neurodiversity and neurotypical means and neuronal differences in autistic people.

Muhib tells us more about problems people with autism might face in everyday life, quiet hours in the supermarket and some advantages.

Mentioned / Recommended literature:

Paper:

Pellicano, E., & Burr, D. (2012). When the world becomes ‘too real’: a Bayesian explanation of autistic perception. Trends in cognitive sciences, 16(10), 504-510.

Baron‐Cohen, S. (2017). Editorial Perspective: Neurodiversity–a revolutionary concept for autism and psychiatry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 58(6), 744-747.

Farmer, G. D., Baron-Cohen, S., & Skylark, W. J. (2017). People with autism spectrum conditions make more consistent decisions. Psychological science, 28(8), 1067-1076.

Hu, Y., Pereira, A. M., Gao, X., Campos, B. M., Derrington, E., Corgnet, B., … & Dreher, J. C. (2021). Right temporoparietal junction underlies avoidance of moral transgression in autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Neuroscience, 41(8), 1699-1715.

Tezcan I. M. (2024). Autism Beyond Deficits: Embracing Neurodiversity in Research. https://cogsci-journal.uni-osnabrueck.de/psychology/autism-beyond-deficits-embracing-neurodiversity-in-research/

Books:

Silberman, S. (2017). Neurotribes: The legacy of autism and how to think smarter about people who think differently. Atlantic Books.

Grandin, T., & Panek, R. (2013). The autistic brain: Thinking across the spectrum. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Credits:

Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

S1 #13 How is AI misused for image based violence? Brain-to-brain with Annemarie Witschas.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 09:45:09 +0000

If you are a victim of sexual digital violence and need help here are some rescources:

[ENG+] https://stopncii.org/

[ENG/GER] https://www.uni-jena.de/en/university/central-institutions/interessenvertretungen/equal-opportunities-office/information-about-equality/digital-violence-guide

[GER] https://annanackt.com/

What had Steve Jobs to do with the moderation of pornography? What are deepfakes?

Annemarie Witschas did her bachelor’s thesis in the field of ethics of AI by looking at pornography. She explains what deep fake pornography is and why it is such an immense problem, especially for woman*. This became particularly clear in a recent case, after the episode was recorded, where deep fake pornography of Taylor Swift was created and spread across the internet. So much, that X (formerly known as twitter) blocked all searches for “#taylorswift”. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about deep fakes and their horrifying use in sexually assaultive contexts. *woman in this context meant as people who are in a body perceived as female

Scientific resources:

https://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/bitstream/ds-202311069973/1/pics-2023-001-witschas-porn-power-and-platforms.pdf

Credits:

Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

S1 #12 Can we create green AI? Brain-to-brain with Cornelius Wolff.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 10:45:10 +0000

What is green AI? And can AI even be green? Sustainable use of Artificial Intelligence – what sounds like a clear conflict, is actually a multifaceted problem. Cornelius studies Cognitive Science and works for the DFKI (German Research Facility for Artificial Intelligence). He explains what green AI is, how AI can be used for sustainability and why some AI’s consume more energy than others. He gives us more insight into the work of the DFKI and the important aspects that come with implementing AI for sustainability. Listen to this episode to learn more about what enterprises can do to improve their footprint using AI!

Credits:

Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

S1 #11 Can we feel space? Brain-to-brain with Susan Wache.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 10:45:09 +0000

More information:

https://www.feelspace.de

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25038534/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34770689/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346329375_The_impact_of_the_sensory_augmentation_device_feelSpace_belt_on_spatial_orientation_and_navigation_of_blind_people

Credits:

Produced by: Sophie Kühne and Alina Ohnesorge Logo by: Annika Richter Music by: Jan-Luca Schröder

S1 #10 Parkinson’s Disease: Just a movement disorder? Brain-to-brain with Elisa Percolla.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 10:45:27 +0000

Do you know someone who has Parkinson’s disease? It is often characterized by trembling hands, but actually has many more aspects. Elisa Percolla is a scientific researcher at the institute of Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. She wrote her master thesis on Parkinson’s disease and studied the brains of patients with EEG. During the interview Elisa describes her way into the field of cognitive science and how the broadness of the field can sometimes go hand in hand with a feeling of inaccuracy since you can never be equally good at each sub-discipline. She proceeds to explain that we should sometimes be a little more lenient with ourselves. Listen to this episode to learn how symptoms of Parkinson’s disease show, what underlying mechanisms are, and what the current state of research in treatment is!

Related literature:

– Last discoveries (EEG and alpha frequency band): Özkurt T. E. (2024). Abnormally low sensorimotor alpha band nonlinearity serves as an effective EEG biomarker of Parkinson’s Disease. Journal of neurophysiology, 10.1152/jn.00272.2023. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00272.2023 – Noradrenaline and not just Dopamine: new frontier of Parkinson’s Disease Research Barone, P. (2010). Neurotransmission in Parkinson’s disease: Beyond dopamine. European journal of neurology : the official journal of the European Federation of Neurological Societies, 17:364–76. Delaville, C., De Deurwaerdère, P., and Benazzouz, A. (2011). Noradrenaline and Parkinson’s disease. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 5:31. – Non-motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease (more general) Bodis-Wollner, I., Tzelepi, A., Sagliocco, L., Bandini, F., Mari, Z., Pierantozzi, A., Ogliastro, E., Kim, J., Ko, C., and Gulzar, J. (1998). Visual processing deficit in Parkinson’s disease, pages 606–611. Lees, A., Hardy, J., and Revesz, T. (2009). Spectrum of non-motor symptoms in Parkinson’s disease. Lancet, 373(9680):2055–2066. Kumaresan, M. and Khan, S. (2021). Spectrum of non-motor symptoms in parkin- son’s disease. Cureus, 13. Schapira, A., Ray Chaudhuri, K., and Jenner, P. (2017). Non-motor features of Parkinson’s disease. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 18. Hobson, D., Lang, A., Martin, W., Razmy, A., Rivest, J., Fleming, J., Pourcher, E., and Members, C. (2002). Excessive daytime sleepiness and sudden-onset sleep in parkinson’s disease: A survey by the canadian movement disorders group. JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association, 287:455–463. Kehagia, A. (2016). Neuropsychiatric symptoms in parkinson’s disease: Beyond complications. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 7. Doty, R. (2012). Olfactory dysfunction in parkinson disease. Nature reviews. Neurology, 8:329–39. Kehagia, A., Barker, R., and Robbins, T. (2012a). Cognitive impairment in parkin- son’s disease: The dual syndrome hypothesis. Neuro-degenerative diseases, 11. – Neural correlates of motor and non-motor symptoms correspondence: Marquez, J., Hasan, S. M. S., Siddiquee, M., Luca, C., Mishra, V., Mari, Z., and Bai, O. (2020). Neural correlates of freezing of gait in parkinson’s disease: An electrophysiology mini-review. Frontiers in Neurology, 11. – Previous work on Event-related Potential Components as biomarkers of Impaired Novelty Detection in Parkinson’s Disease: Solıs-Vivanco, R., Ricardo-Garcell, J., Rodrıguez-Camacho, M., Prado-Alcala, R., Rodriguez, U., Rodrıguez-Violante, M., and Rodrıguez-Agudelo, Y. (2011). Involuntary attention impairment in early Parkinson’s disease: An event-related potential study. Neuroscience letters, 495:144–9. Solıs-Vivanco, R., Rodrıguez-Violante, M., Cervantes-Arriaga, A., Justo-Guillén, E., and Ricardo-Garcell, J. (2018). Brain oscillations reveal impaired novelty detection from early stages of parkinson’s disease. NeuroImage: Clinical, 18. Solıs-Vivanco, R., Rodrıguez-Violante, M., Rodrıguez-Agudelo, Y., Schilmann, A., Rodrıguez-Ortiz, U., and Ricardo-Garcell, J. (2015). The p3a wave: A re- liable neurophysiological measure of parkinsońs disease duration and severity. Clinical Neurophysiology, 126. Lagopoulos, J., Gordon, E., Barhamali, H., Lim, C. L., Li, W., Clouston, P., and Morris, J. (1998). Dysfunctions of automatic (p300a) and controlled (p300b) processing in Parkinson’s disease. Neurological research, 20:5–10. – Vibrotactile cueing and Parkinsonian Freezing of Gait Kaiser, V. (2021). The impact of a vibrotactile cueing device on freezing of gait and other gait impairments in parkinson’s disease – a longitudinal study.

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S1 #9 What is a Fuzzy Neural Network? Brain-to-brain with Julia Hattendorf.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 10:45:02 +0000

Julia Hattendorf is studying Cognitive Science in Osnabrück. She found the topic for her bachelor thesis more or less by accident: While searching the internet, she stumbled across neuro-fuzzy systems. In this episode she talks about what that is and what one can do with it.

Mentioned/Recommended papers:

Zadeh, L. A. (1965). Fuzzy sets. Information and control, 8(3), 338-353.

Lee, S. C., & Lee, E. T. (1975). Fuzzy neural networks. Mathematical Biosciences, 23(1-2), 151-177.

Jang, J. S. (1993). ANFIS: adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system. IEEE transactions on systems, man, and cybernetics, 23(3), 665-685.

Talpur, N., Abdulkadir, S. J., Alhussian, H., Hasan, M. H., Aziz, N., & Bamhdi, A. (2022). A comprehensive review of deep neuro-fuzzy system architectures and their optimization methods. Neural Computing and Applications, 1-39.

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S1 #8 How can we get rid of our nightmares? Brain-to-brain with Katharina Lüth.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 10:45:33 +0000

Do you remember what you’ve been dreaming last night? At least a tiny bit of it? Even if some people cannot remember, most of us dream several different dreams each night. Often, those dreams are connected to what has happened during our wake life. Some of us might frequently experience rather stressful dreams, which cause us to wake up shaking or ruffled. And for some, those nightmares can be something that tremendously impacts their daily life and might make them afraid of going to bed. Katharina Lüth is a PhD student at the institute of Cognitive Science and is researching Sleep & Dreams. She is in particular interested in nightmares and helping people to deal with bad dreams. Listen to this episode to learn why we dream in the first place, what lucid dreaming is and whether animals dream too!

Mentioned papers:

Appel, K., Füllhase, S., Kern, S., Kleinschmidt, A., Laukemper, A., Lüth, K., … & Vogelsang, L. (2020). Inducing signal-verified lucid dreams in 40% of untrained novice lucid dreamers within two nights in a sleep laboratory setting. Consciousness and Cognition, 83, 102960.

Gupta, A. S., Van Der Meer, M. A., Touretzky, D. S., & Redish, A. D. (2010). Hippocampal replay is not a simple function of experience. Neuron, 65(5), 695-705.

(German only:)

https://www.dgsm.de/fileadmin/dgsm/Arbeitsgruppen/traum/Alptraeume_Was_kann_ich_dagegen_tun.pdf

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Who are your hosts? Bonus-to-brain with Alina, Elisa and Sönke

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:45:44 +0000

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

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On deep neuronal networks, consciousness, and cognitive neuroscience. Brain-to-brain with Adrien Doerig. Special #12

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 10:45:21 +0000

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.

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Decoding altered states of mind. Brain-to-brain with Linda Ariel Ventura. Special #11

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:45:21 +0000

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.

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On solving riddles and understanding the brain. Brain-to-brain with Viktoria Zemliak. Special #10

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:45:49 +0000

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.

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The development of children and the future of the planet. Brain-to-brain with Dr. Annette Hohenberger. Special #9

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:05:11 +0000

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.

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The mind and spatial navigation. Brain-to-brain with Tracy Sánchez Pacheco. Special #8

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:45:54 +0000

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]

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A path into AI: two decades of research. Brain-to-brain with Prof. Kai-Uwe Kühnberger. Special #7

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:45:49 +0000

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.

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On implementing brains & seeing with hands. Brain-to-brain with Piper Powell. Special #6

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 10:45:13 +0000

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.

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Irony: unspecific communication and its advantages. Brain-to-brain with Dr. Asya Achimova. Special #5

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:45:09 +0000

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.

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What computations tell us about our neurological processes. Brain-to-brain with Assistant Professor Sebastian Musslick. Special #4

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:45:24 +0000

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.

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Computing Systems, Philosophy & a Conscious Universe. Brain-to-brain with Dr. Dr. Gregor Hörzer. Special #3

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 10:45:29 +0000

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.

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From mothers to babies, researching communication in Dolphins and Bonobos. Brain-to-brain with Jolinde Vlaeyen. Special #2

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 10:45:27 +0000

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.

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From Physics to Cognitive Neurobio-Psychology. Brain-to-brain with Prof. Dr. Peter König. Special #1

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:40:10 +0000

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.

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S1 #7 How do ethics answer AI questions? Brain-to-brain with Nora Freya Lindemann.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 10:45:11 +0000

Why do we have to talk about ethics when we’re talking about AI?

And can we really trust the output ChatGPT or other AI functions provide us?

And what’s the thing with Instagram filters – is there a bias into how they change the look of people?

Those questions and many more will find answers in our next episode. We’re talking to Nora Freya Lindemann, a current PhD student. She is working in a project on AI and ethical questions connected to it, and is currently investigating decision making in chatbots and which impact those can have on the society.

References:

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S1 #6 What can AI tell us about climate? Brain-to-brain with Charlotte Lange.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 11:33:37 +0000

Climate change and climate protection is a topic much discussed from different aspects. And it’s something that already affects us today and will become even more pressing in future.

In this episode, we go brain-to-brain with Charlotte Lange. She loves nature and wants to protect it. For this, she uses a tool that is also often discussed, but mostly in different contexts. She’s doing research and working on projects that connect climate models with deep neural networks, a form of AI, and wants to use the tools offered by technology to play her role in preserving nature.

References:

David Rolnick, Priya L. Donti, Lynn H. Kaack, Kelly Kochanski, Alexandre Lacoste, Kris Sankaran, Andrew Slavin Ross, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Natasha Jaques, Anna Waldman-Brown, Alexandra Luccioni, Tegan Maharaj, Evan D. Sherwin, S. Karthik Mukkavilli, Konrad P. Kording, Carla Gomes, Andrew Y. Ng, Demis Hassabis, John C. Platt, Felix Creutzig, Jennifer Chayes, & Yoshua Bengio. (2019). Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning.

Salva Rühling Cachay, Venkatesh Ramesh, Jason N. S. Cole, Howard Barker, & David Rolnick. (2021). ClimART: A Benchmark Dataset for Emulating Atmospheric Radiative Transfer in Weather and Climate Models.

Kaltenborn, J., Lange, C. E. E., Ramesh, V., Brouillard, P., Gurwicz, Y., Nagda, C., … & Rolnick, D. (2023, November). ClimateSet: A Large-Scale Climate Model Dataset for Machine Learning. In Thirty-seventh Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track.

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S1 #5 What does dreaming have to do with emotions? Brain-to-brain with Jona Lemke.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:45:57 +0000

Have you had a bad dream recently? And have you ever wondered where your dreams come from and what they mean?

In this episode we go brain-to-brain with Jona who wrote their bachelor’s thesis about emotional regulation during dreams.

Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 Cognitive Science Student Journal, Osnabrück University

References: Cartwright, R. D. (1991). Dreams that work: The relation of dream incorporation to adaptation to stressful events. Dreaming, 1(1), 3–9. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0094312

Cartwright R, Agargun MY, Kirkby J, Friedman JK. Relation of dreams to waking concerns. Psychiatry Res. 2006 Mar 30;141(3):261-70. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.05.013. Epub 2006 Feb 23. PMID: 16497389.

Werner GG, Schabus M, Blechert J, Wilhelm FH. Differential Effects of REM Sleep on Emotional Processing: Initial Evidence for Increased Short-term Emotional Responses and Reduced Long-term Intrusive Memories. Behav Sleep Med. 2021 Jan-Feb;19(1):83-98. doi: 10.1080/15402002.2020.1713134. Epub 2020 Jan 23. PMID: 31971007.

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S1 #4 How can GPT help us learn? Brain-to-brain with Konstantin Strömel.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:45:15 +0000

Nearly everyone has heard of ChatGPT and most of us already used it. While some consider it a helpful tool, others raise worried thoughts about the repercussions it might have for education systems. But did you ever think about how ChatGPT actually works?

In a university project, Konstantin Strömel and Max Kalcher have developed a tool that uses GPT to create a digital learning assistant. In our fourth episode we go brain-to-brain with Konstantin and discuss their project and different aspects of how AI that is able to support students learning.

Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 Cognitive Science Student Journal, Osnabrück University

Reference: https://www.khanacademy.org/khan-labs

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S1 #3 What does the chimp say? Brain-to-brain with Bas van Boekholt.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:45:05 +0000

S1 #2 How can we improve our well-being? Brain-to-brain with Patricia Groß.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 10:00:39 +0000

Join us in our conversation on well-being. We explore how well-being is measured and what we can do ourselves in order to improve our well-being.

Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 Cognitive Science Student Journal, Osnabrück University

Mentioned papers and articles:

24 character strengths: https://www.viacharacter.org/

eudaimonic and subjective well-being: Martela, F., & Sheldon, K. M. (2019). Clarifying the concept of well-Being: Psychological need satisfaction as the common core connecting eudaimonic and subjective well-being

paper pie chart:

Sonja Lyubomirsky and Kennon M. Sheldon, (2005), Pursuing Happiness: The Architecture of Sustainable Change
Kennon M. Sheldon & Sonja Lyubomirsky, 2021, Revisiting the Sustainable Happiness Model and Pie Chart: Can Happiness Be Successfully Pursued?

measurement of subjective well-being: Diener, E. (2007). Guidelines for national indicators of subjective well-Being and ill-Being.

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S1 #1 How can we hear our inner voice? Brain-to-brain with Daniel Müller.

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:30:23 +0000

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.

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#0 Introducing our podcast and Cognitive Science

Imogen Hüsing, Sophie Kühne, Sönke Lülf, Elisa Palme — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 18:55:03 +0000

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).

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Licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0 Cognitive Science Student Journal, Osnabrück University