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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 exciting nature of the mind and its (neuro-)cognitive processes.
Visit us at: https://philosophy-cognition.com/cmc
Upcoming Friday:
12-pm @ruhr-uni-bochum.de GA 04/187 & Zoom
Neuroscience:
Fabrizio Londei (Neuroscience Institute, Spain):
Cell Assembly-Based Analysis of Neurophysiological Data
#Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #FabrizioLondei #Neutophysiology #NeuralBasisOfLearning #AnimalCognition
February 2, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Workshop with Hedda Hassel Morch:
Panpsychism, Non-Physicalism, & the Causal Powers of Consciousness
Jan. 29 - Jan.30 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de GA 1/128 & Zoom
For more info see: www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/...
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #Workshop #Physicalism #Panpsychism #Consciousness
January 26, 2026 at 1:06 PM
This Friday, Jan 23 🤩
12-2pm, GA 04/187 & Zoom
Psychopathology
Tom Beckers (KU Leuven):
Reminder-dependent amnesia: Suppression and recovery
More Info at: www.ngl.psy.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ngl/mam/cont...
#CognitiveScience #Psychology #TomBeckers #Psychopathology #Amnesia #Suppression #Psychiatry
January 20, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Next Tuesday:
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
27.01., 2-4pm, GA04/187 & Zoom (see our webpage)
Philosophy
Peter Gärdenfors (Lund):
Reasoning with Concepts
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #PeterGärdenfors #Concepts #Reasoning #ConceptualSpaces #PhilosophyOfScience #SituatedCognition
January 16, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Upcoming Thursday:
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
15.01., 12-2pm, GA04/187 & Zoom
Linguistics
Guendalina Reul (Köln):
The Multilayered Nature of Ad Hoc Metonymy: Evidence from EEG
#Linguistics #CognitiveScience #GuendalinaReul #EEG #Metonymy #Language #UniKöln #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Sprachwissenschaft
January 12, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Next Tuesday:
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de 13.01., 2-4pm, GA04/187 & Zoom
Philosophy
Bence Nanay (Antwerp):
Conative dissonance and conative bubbles
More info: philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/events/
#Philosophy #CognitiveScience #BenceNanay #ConativeDissonance #ConativeBubbles #Beliefs #SituatedCognition
January 9, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Friday, 9.1., 12-2pm:
@ruhr-uni-bochum.de GA 04/187 & Zoom
Eleonora Russo (Sant’Anna):
Extraction of functional motifs from experimental data: integration of rate and phase codes by hippocampal cell-assemblies.
#NeuralBasisOfLearning #CognitiveScience #Neuropsychology #EleonoraRusso #Hippocampus
January 6, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Happy New Year to everyone!🥳
Hopefully you could take some of the holidays to relax a bit. We fled to a more rural area to escape the fireworks with our anxious rescue dog. 🐾
The next talk announcement will follow soon.
See here: philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/events/
#HappyNewYear #CognitiveScience
January 5, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Dear friends of Cognitive Science,
since holidays are close, I will take the time today to wish you all pleasant and reassuring holidays and a healthy and powerful start into the Year 2026!
See you soon!
#Holidays #NewYear #Cognition #CognitiveScience #Philosophy #Psychology #RuhrUniBochum
December 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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
December 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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
December 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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
December 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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
philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/events
#CognitiveScience #CarlosGomes #Memory #Neuroscience #EEG #fMRI
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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
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
November 17, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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
philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/events/
#WeiLiu #GridCells #Neuroscience #Cognition #NikolaiAxmacher #Behavior
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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
October 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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
October 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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
September 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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
September 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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
September 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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
September 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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
August 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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
August 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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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