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Center for Mind & Cognition @ Ruhr-Uni Bochum
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The Center for Mind & Cognition (CMC) is an interdisciplinary platform at #RuhrUniBochum. We investigate the fascinating nature of the mind and its (neuro-)cognitive processes.
Visit us at: https://philosophy-cognition.com/cmc
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This week:
Thu Dec 18 12-2pm Online via Zoom (link: see website)
Philosophy Talk in the Bochum Language Colloquium:
Nadja-Mira Yolcu (Mannheim): "The Reason-giving „Because“"
#Nadja-MiraYolcu #Language #Cognition #Philosophy #Reasons #BochumLanguageColloquium #RuhrUniBochum #Linguistics
Portrait of Nadja-Mira Yolcu
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Next week:
Workshop with Susanna Schellenberg "The Nature of Perspectives"
Dec. 11-12 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de & Online
For more info, visit: philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/2025/11/...
#Philosophy #SusannaSchellenberg #Perspectives #BookDiscussion #Cognition #PhilosophyOfMind #CognitiveScience
Poster of the workshop
December 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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This week in the BGTMC @ruhr-uni-bochum.de:
Thu Dec 4 12-2pm online (link see website)
Ching Keng (National Taiwan University)
Episodic memory and the sense of self: A constructivist approach
philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/events/
#Philosophy #Cognition #EpisodicMemory #ChingKeng #Self
Portrait of Ching Keng
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Next talk Colloquium NeuroPsy:
Nov 27, 2-4 pm; IB 6/127 & Zoom (see website)
Carlos Gomes (RUB):
APOE effects on memory consolidation & brain connectivity during sleep in a simultaneous EEG-fMRI study
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#CognitiveScience #CarlosGomes #Memory #Neuroscience #EEG #fMRI
Picture of a brain
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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The KogWis25 conference @ruhr-uni-bochum.de was a great success! 🤩
Thanks to our organizatory team and everyone participating for making scientific exchange so easy.🤗
Official conference video & some talks: philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/videos/
#KogWis25 #CognitiveScience #Philosophy #GK #Cognition
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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This week's Member Talk:
20.11.: 12-2pm; Online
Markus Werning & Sofia Pedrini (RUB):
The problem of mnemic justification: How can episodic memories provide genuine (internalist) epistemic justification for factual beliefs?
#MarkusWerning #SofiaPedrini #Philosophy #Memory #Belief #Cognition
Portrait of Sofia Pedrini Portrait of Markus Werning
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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This week's Fellow Talk:
13.11.: 2-4pm; @ruhr-uni-bochum.de IA 1/87 & Zoom (see website)
Wei Liu (CCNU) on:
A novel behavioral paradigm to study grid-like representation in human brains
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#WeiLiu #GridCells #Neuroscience #Cognition #NikolaiAxmacher #Behavior
Portrait of Wei Liu, Fellow from CCNU @ Nikolai Axmacher's lab.
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Colloquium of the RTG Situated Cognition:
Pascale Willemsen (Zurich):
Evaluative Language and Moore’s Paradox. Challenging Moral (and Other Forms of) Expressivism
Nov. 4th, 2-4pm @ruhr-uni-bochum.de GA04/187 or Zoom (see website)
#SituatedCognition #PascaleWillemsen #Cognition #Philosophy #Language
Portrait of our speaker Pascale Willemsen
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Next week, Oct 27th 2025
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
:
IGSN Symposium:
From Bench to Bedside: Advances in Understanding Chronic Pain.
Guests are very welcome to join! 😊
More info: philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/events
#cognition #IGSN #Pain #ChronicPain #mind #Neuroscience #RuhrUniBochum
Symposium Schedule
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Next week, Oct 6th 2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de:
IGSN Symposium:
Human Brain Development and the Use of Cerebral Organoids to Decipher Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms.
More info: philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/events
#cognition #IGSN #Brain #MolecularMechanisms #mind #Neuroscience #Development
Symposium Plan: Molecular Mechanisms Monday, October 6, 2025, 3 p.m., Seminar Room FNO - 01/117 3 p.m. Wieland B. Huttner Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany What made our brain so big and us smarter than Neandertals? 4 p.m. Victor Borrell Franco Institute of Neuroscience, CSIC-UMH, San Juan de Alicante, Spain Epigenetic and cellular regulation of cortex expansion and folding 5 p.m. Coffee break 5.15 p.m. Delilah Hendriks Princess Maxima Center, Utrecht, NL Human brain organoids: from novel models to studies of development and disease Host: Asisa Muchamedin Guests are welcome!
September 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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We are happy to welcome Wei Liu (CCNU China) as a fellow @ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Chair: Nikolai Axmacher, Neuropsychology) Oct-Dec 2025!
The fellow project is on grid-like representations and human memory.

#NikolaiAxmacher #Neuropsychology #Neuropsychologie #WeiLiu #CognitiveScience #Fellow #Memory
Photo of Wei Liu
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The Winter Semester 2025/26 at Ruhr University Bochum is coming closer! ❄️📚
Look forward to exciting colloquia:
e.g.:
Recent Developments in Philosophy of Mind and Situated Cognition
Neuropsychology Research Colloquium
#RUB #WinterSemester #Philosophy #CognitiveScience #Research #UniBochum
Snow white RUB campus
September 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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The KogWis2025 was a great success!
We also awarded the best presentations & posters of scientists without permanent positions.
Visit & subscribe our calendar for upcoming events: philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/events/
#KogWis2025 #cognitiveScience #cognition #philosophy #Kognitionswissenschaft
Participants of the KogWis2025 @ RUB "Best Poster"-Award
September 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Dear friends of Cognitive Science,
next week finally the KogWis2025 will start at the Veranstaltungszentrum @ruhr-uni-bochum.de !
Program:
kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com/program/

#CognitiveScience #cognition #philosophy #Kognitionswissenschaft #conference #minds #SituatedCognition
Poster KogWis2025
August 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Next Semester we will welcome international guest professors for Cognitive Science at the Philosophy Department @ruhr-uni-bochum.de
www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...
#CognitiveScience #Philosophy #Kognitionswissenschaft #KristinAndrews #RobertRupert #NicoOrlandi #RobertClowes #DAAD
Poster showing the 4 visiting international professors
August 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Dear friends of interdisciplinary reserach in cognitive science:
We will soon have a call for fellowships. Different hosts will offer junior- and senior-fellowships within the framework of our center. For more info about upcoming calls & events, visit our webpage: philosophy-cognition.com/cmc
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August 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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We will have the interdisciplinary conference of cognitive science KogWis2025 @ Bochum this year! Early Bird registration runs until July 31st.
More Info at: kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com/
#CognitiveScience #cognition #philosophy #Kognitionswissenschaft #conference #minds #SituatedCognition
Poster of KogWis2025
July 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Azizuddin Khan (Bombay) July 4th, 2pm, IB 6/127 & Zoom
Executive function, Prospective memory, Emotional regulation among adults with autism spectrum disorder: Converging evidence from behavioral and eye-tracking investigation
#AzizuddinKhan #Neuropsychology #Memory #Emotion #Autism #Eye-Tracking
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June 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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This week: Workshop with Jonathan Birch @ RUB
Talks in the field of Birch's book 'The Edge of Sentience'.
Find more Info and the program here:
www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...

#consciousness #philosophy #RuhrUniBochum #sentience #animalcognition #JonathanBirch
Workshop poster
June 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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The next hybrid talk in the Interact! Lecture Series this week:
📅June 4, 2025, 6pm CET: Veelasha Moonsamy (Computer Science, Security & Privacy, RUB): Emotionally-Intelligent Chatbots and Privacy
#computerscience #privacy #VeelashaMoonsamy #Chatbot #AI #Philosophy #Interact #RuhrUniBochum
Poster of the Interact! lecture series
June 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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One of this week's talks announced by the Center for Mind & Cognition:
📅May 28, 2025, 6pm CET: Karola Marky (Computer Science, Digital Sovereignty Lab, RUB): An Introduction Into Information Privacy
#computerscience #privacy #RuhrUniBochum
Poster of the Interact! lecture series
May 26, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Dear members and friends of the Center for Mind & Cognition,
this is our new BlueSky page. I will regularly post news, events, and other interesting stuff here.
#mind #cognition #philosophy #RuhrUniBochum #brain
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May 23, 2025 at 12:39 PM