The 18th SweCog conference of the Swedish Cognitive Science Society will be held in Göteborg. The conference is free for all members and will take place between October 5th and October 6th.
Invited Speakers
Prof. Virginia Dignum, Umeå University.
What is Responsible AI and why should you care
Karin Jensen, Karolinska Institutet.
Predictions of relief: the science of the placebo effect
Prof. Pär-Anders Granhag, University of Gothenburg.
The detection of lies: Emotional vs. cognitive approaches
In addition to the keynotes, Swecog 2023 will host a panel consisting of Prof. Virginia Dignum, Prof. Jonas Ivarsson, and Prof. Olle Häggström, moderated by Assoc. Prof. Linus Holm.
Panel discussion on AI: What is left to the human mind when machines do the thinking?
Conference Programme
October 5thth
| 12:30 — 13:00 | Registration |
| 13:00 — 13:50 | Invited speaker: Karin Jensen |
| 13:50 — 15:15 | Oral presentations (session 1) |
| Amandus Krantz: Trust me when I speak: Using speech to mitigate effects of robotic errors on trust | |
| Katie Winkle: Navigating Risks and Opportunities Pertaining to Robot Identity Performance and Abuse | |
| Ilaria Torre: Can a gender ambiguous robot voice reduce gender stereotypes? | |
| 15:15 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 — 16:50 | Oral presentations (session 2) |
| Melina Tsapos: Partisan users select partisan search queries: Further evidence for the “self-imposed filter bubble” hypothesis | |
| Alexander Berman: Counterfactual reasoning capabilities of GPT: Preliminary findings | |
| Andreas Chatzopoulos: Cognitive explanations and Large Language Models | |
| 16:50 — 18:00 | Poster session with elevator pitch All poster presenters are invited to do an elevator pitch of 2 minutes before the start of the poster session. Ismael Albutihe, Anton Smedberg et al., Philip Gustafsson, Erik Hallberg & Ludwig Lundstedt, Azadeh Karamali, Erik Lagerstedt, Kajsa Nalin & Erik Lagerstedt, Anders Persson, Samantha Stedtler, Nanna Strid et al., Franziska Babel et al., Victor Nyberg, William Hedley Thompson, and Shuren Yu. |
| 18:30 | Reception with light food. Staff area, Floor 3, Forskningsgången 6 |
October 6thth
| 09:00 — 09:50 | Invited speaker: Pär-Anders Granhag |
| 09:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:10 — 11:50 | Oral presentations (session 3) |
| Mattias Forsgren: “The report of my death was an exaggeration” – no evidence to rule out associative learning in non-stationary probability learning | |
| Linus Holm: Information source credibility predicts curiosity in trivia fact learning | |
| Maybí Morell Ruiz: Processing of estimation in adults using Two-choice-NLET | |
| Mohammad Hossein Heydari Beni: Category theory: From Semantic Information in the mind to Shannon Information in the brain | |
| Mattias Rost: Markov Games for Humans and Machines | |
| 11:50 | Lunch |
| 13:00 — 14:00 | Oral presentations (session 4) |
| Betul Tolgay and Oskar MacGregor: A Sorry State: Frontal Alpha Asymmetry Is a Spurious Measure of Emotion Lateralization in an Affect Elicitation Task | |
| Simon Skau: An attempt to replicate the Response Conflict/Competition Theory’s hypothesis of the Stroop effect with functional near infrared spectroscopy | |
| Dániel Pénzes: Interpreting mental rotation performance in self-described aphantasia through cognitive penetrability | |
| 14:00 — 15:00 | Invited speaker: Virginia Dignum |
| 15:00 — 15:40 | Panel discussion on AI: What is left to the human mind when machines do the thinking? |
| 15:40 — 15:50 | Closing |
Venue
The conference takes place at Campus Lindholmen, University of Gothenburg, specifically Torg Grön, Floor 4, Department of Applied IT, Forskningsgången 6, 417 56 Göteborg.