Psychoneuroendocrinology Katja Wingenfeld (Charité Berlin) Testosterone in Borderline Personality Disorder
2026-04-14 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | IB 6/127 & Zoom
Research Colloquium „Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology“
SuSe 2026
Di 16:15-17:45
IB 6 /127 (Hybrid)
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/61764573363?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 617 6457 3363; Passwort: [REDACTED]

IGSN-Conference: 25 Years of Excellent Education
2026-04-21 10:00 - 2026-04-22 17:00 | FNO 01/117, Universitätsstr. 150, Bochum, NRW, 44801, Germany
Speakers: Desmond Agboada, Ayla Aksoy Aksel, Ercan Altinsoy, Jon Barbour, Sabine Blankenship, Tim Czopka*, Deepak Dash, Valentina Kopp, Olivia Masseck, Giulio Pergola, Naima Rüther, Fabian Schönfeld
Hosts: Denise Manahan-Vaughan, Katrin Marcus-Alic, Carsten Theiss

Philosophy Rosa Cao (Stanford University) The Scientist in the Machine
2026-04-22 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom
Representations in Minds, Brains, and AI
18:00-20:00 CET
Zoom Lecture
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/64692924755?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 646 9292 4755 | Passwort: [REDACTED]

Psychology Barbara Tversky (Stanford & Columbia) Mind in Motion
2026-04-23 14:00 - 16:00 | IA 02/461 & Zoom, Universitätsstr. 150, Bochum, NRW, 44801, Germany
Dear all,
We are very happy to invite you to a talk by Barbara Tversky (Stanford University & Columbia Teachers College)
Mind in Motion
How the brain uses space and action to build abstract thought, language, and the cognitive tools that extend the mind.
Date: Thursday, April 23, 2026 Time: 2:00 PM
Location: IA 02/461, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150
Format: Hybrid
Zoom: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/61951368593?pwd=[REDACTED]
The talk will be followed by a reception, and everyone is very welcome to join.
If you would like to meet Barbara Tversky, you are very welcome to join the reception and also contact Lara Brauchle (lara.braeuchle@ruhr-uni-bochum.de).

Philosophy Jessie Munton (University of Cambridge) TBA
2026-04-28 12:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium
12:15-13:45 Central European Summer Time
Zoom
https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/98859063721?pwd=[REDACTED]
meeting ID: 988 5906 3721
password: [REDACTED]

Cognitive Neurobiology Joanes Grandjean (Nijmegen) Mice are not tiny humans (but brain network homologies exist!)
2026-04-28 16:00 - 17:30 | MB 7/159 & Zoom, Universitätsstr. 150, Bochum, NRW, 44801, Germany
Please save the date for the following talk hosted by the Cognitive Neurobiology (CNB) Department of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Feel free to forward this invitation:
Speaker: Dr. Joanes Grandjean
Affiliation: Radboud University Medical Center & Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Nijmegen
Title of the talk: Mice are not tiny humans (but brain network homologies exist!)
Date: Tuesday, April 28th
Time: 4:00-5:30PM
Place: MB 7/159
Map to MB Building: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15l6KlB_kiFDo1q1kasmRoa1sy0_aLdNE/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112763147070832987178&rtpof=true&sd=true
Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom-x.de/j/67216434824 (Meeting ID: 672 1643 4824)
Abstract: Mice are an experimental model of choice in neuroscience, but the translation to the human brain is a challenge. This is a roadblock to comparing mechanistic and interventional studies. I will present the different frameworks we have developed to establish translational links between brain networks in mice and humans, in both healthy and disordered conditions. Finally, I will showcase our efforts to federate rodent brain imaging, including the contribution of Ruhr-Universität Bochum, to evolve rodent network mapping to the era of big data .
We hope to see you there!

Psychology Katja Langer (RUB) Interindividual differences in emotion regulation flexibility: the moderating role of working memory capacity and regulation performances
2026-04-28 16:00 - 18:00 | IB 6/127 & Zoom
Research Colloquium „Cognitive Psychology and Psychoneuroendocrinology“
SuSe 2026
TUE 16:15-17:45
IB 6 /127 (Hybrid)
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/61764573363?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 617 6457 3363; Passwort: [REDACTED]

Philosophy Ken Aizawa (Rutgers University) The Evidence for Representation
2026-04-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Philosophy Kaspars Eihmanis (University of Latvia) TBA
2026-05-05 12:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium
12:15-13:45 Central European Summer Time
Zoom Lecture
https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/98859063721?pwd=[REDACTED]
meeting ID: 988 5906 3721
password: [REDACTED]

Philosophy Raphael van Riel (Universität Duisburg Essen) No Coincidences: A General Theory of Explanation and Dependence
2026-05-06 12:00 - 14:00 | GA 1/128 & Zoom, Universitätsstr. 150, Bochum, 44801, Germany
Kolloquium des Instituts für Philosophie II
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/62005024610?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 620 0502 4610 | Passwort: [REDACTED]

Philosophy Corey Maley (Purdue University) Structural Representation is Analog Representation
2026-05-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Neuropsychology Prof. Dr. Dr. Cornelia McCormick (Universitätsklinikum Bonn) The neural construction of imagery-rich mental events
2026-05-07 14:00 - 16:00 | IB 6/127
Neuropsychology Research Colloquium
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/99038888420?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 990 3888 8420
Passwort: [REDACTED]

Psychoneuroendocrinology Lena Pfeifer (RUB) Cortisol, sex hormones and memory retrieval
2026-05-12 16:00 - 18:00 | IB 6/127 & Zoom

Philosophy Kevin J. Mitchell (Dublin University) The Origins of Meaning: From Pragmatic Control Signals to Semantic Representation
2026-05-13 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Philosophy Carlotta Pavese (University of Oxford) TBA
2026-05-19 12:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom

Psychology Lianne Wolsink (RUB) Stress effects on memory accuracy vs. generalization over time
2026-05-19 16:00 - 18:00 | IB 6/127 & Zoom

Philosophy Eric Hochstein (Victoria University, Canada) Neural Representations as Scientific Posits and Metaphysical Entities
2026-05-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Neuropsychology Antoine Bouyeure (RUB) TBA
2026-05-21 14:00 - 16:00 | IB 6/127 & Zoom
Research Colloquium
14:15-15:45 Central European Summer Time
Hybrid IB6/127 & Zoom
https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/98859063721?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 990 3888 8420
Passwort: [REDACTED]

Philosophy Gabriele Ferretti (University of Bergamo) Ultra-Embodiment: How Endurance Running Shaped the Body, the Brain and the Mind
2026-05-21 14:00 - 16:00 | GA 03/46 & Zoom
Hybrid Talk, Research Colloquium “Philosophy of Embodied Cognition”
GA 03/46 & Zoom
Zoom Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86035161000?pwd=[REDACTED]

Rudolf-Carnap-Lectures 2026: Transformative Experience. with L.A. Paul
2026-05-27 10:00 - 2026-05-29 18:00 | RUB, Universitätsstr. 150, Bochum, 44801, Germany
more info at: https://rudolf-carnap-lectures.jimdosite.com/lectures-2026/

Neuropsychology Carlos Gomes (RUB) TBA
2026-05-28 14:00 - 16:00 | IB 6/127 & Zoom

Workshop:Memory and Emotion
2026-06-01 | RUB Veranstaltungszentrum Saal 1, Universitätsstraße 150, Bochum, Germany
Workshop Organized by Prof Eva Weber-Guskar (RUB) & Prof. Katja Crone (TU Dortmund)
Speaker
Sven Bernecker (Cologne) – Forgetting Resentment
Dorothea Debus (Erlangen) – Memory, Emotions & Self-Understanding
Fabrice Teroni (Geneva) – Some Key Relations Between Memory And Emotions
Please register by 18 May via: inga.seiffert@rub.de

Workshop: Philosophical Issues in Neural Computation
2026-06-02 10:00 - 2026-06-03 18:00 | Beckmannshof, Universitätsstr. 150, Bochum, 44801, Germany
Join us for our workshop on Neural Computation at Ruhr-Uni Bochum, June 2-3, 2026. It will take place on Campus at Beckmannshof.
The idea that the brain performs computations is widely accepted in cognitive science and computational neuroscience. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that neural computation differs fundamentally from classical computation. Key aspects of what it means to compute in a neural context are under debate. For example, to what extent is neural computation medium-independent, or is it tied to the biological substrate of the brain? What is the status of deep learning models in computational neuroscience? What kind of models are they—engineering or scientific—and how do they explain neural phenomena? How does neural computation relate to, or differ from, analog and digital computation as understood in traditional computer science? This workshop brings together philosophers and researchers from other fields to address these questions and develop a clearer understanding of computation in neural systems.
Speakers:
Johannes Brinz (University of Osnabrück)
Adrien Doerig (FU Berlin)
Frances Egan (Rutgers University)
Olivia Guest (Radboud University)
Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri)
Katja Seeliger (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Oron Shagrir (University of Jerusalem)
Organization:
Johannes Brinz & Nikola Kompa (University of Osnabrück)
Tobias Schlicht (Ruhr-University Bochum)
Further details: https://www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/ii/bewusstsein/workshop.html.en

Neuropsychology Henry Soldan (RUB) Neural representational patterns underlying semantic completion in temporal episodic memory
2026-06-09 16:00 - 18:00 | IB 6/127 & Zoom

Philosophy István Aranyosi (Bilkent University Ankara) Remembering, old school
2026-06-10 12:00 - 14:00 | GA 1/128 & Zoom, Universitätsstr. 150, Bochum, 44801, Germany
Kolloquium des Instituts für Philosophie II
SuSe2026
Wed 12:15-13:45
GA1/128 (Hybrid)
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/62005024610?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 620 0502 4610 | Passwort: [REDACTED]

Anthropology Daniel Haun (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology & Universität Leipzig) Rethinking Cognitive Uniqueness: A Comparative Cultural Psychology of the Human Mind
2026-06-10 16:00 - 18:00 | IA 02/461
What makes human cognition unique? In this talk, I revisit an ambition already present in Wundt’s vision of psychology: to understand
the human mind through coordinated evidence from child development, cross-cultural variation, and species comparison. I argue that
uniquely human cognition cannot be understood from any one of these perspectives alone. A Comparative Cultural Psychology
approach asks how cognitive capacities emerge in children, which capacities humans share with other animals, and how far proposed
human universals are shaped by social, ecological, and cultural environments. Drawing on examples from chimpanzee cognition and
culture, and from children’s development across diverse societies, I will examine a series of target domains, including social learning,
social cognition, and abstraction. Together, these perspectives suggest that human cognitive uniqueness may lie not in any single
species-defining capacity, but in the developmental interaction between shared biological foundations, human-typical social and
representational capacities, and culturally structured environments that give rise to diverse forms of thinking, learning, and social life.

Philosophy Manolo Martínez (Universitat de Barcelona) The Information-Processing Perspective on Representation
2026-06-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Online via Zoom

Neuroscience Umberto Olcese (University of Amsterdam) Do inactive (and inactivated) neurons contribute to visual perception?
2026-06-11 14:00 - 16:00 | MB 7/159 & Zoom, Universitätsstr. 150, Bochum, NRW, 44801, Germany
Predictive Brain Talk Series 2026 (Hybrid)
in person: MB7/159
Zoom: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/68193768258?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 681 9376 8258. Passwort: [REDACTED]

Philosophy Tony Cheng (Waseda Institute of Advanced Study) TBA
2026-06-16 12:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom

Philosophy Regina Fabry (Sydney) Grief and the Problem of Neuronormativity
2026-06-16 14:00 - 16:00 | GA 04/187 & Zoom
Hybrid event: GA 04/187 & Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85349838236?pwd=[REDACTED]
