CBC Seminars

Where

Most talks are scheduled at 12.00 on alternate Fridays, in room 24.009 ( Ed. Mercè Rodoreda 24 ) but exceptionally some talks can be scheduled for a different day and time.

In addition to the regular seminars by national and international speakers, the CBC Seminars also include ‘Junior Speaker Seminars’. These seminars give junior researchers the opportunity to present their work. They are organised punctually as part of the regular seminars, same day and time.

935 421 855
[email protected]

14
Jul.
2026
12:00

CBC talk Luca Onnis
TBA

Luca Onnis (University of Oslo)

Luca Bonatti

24
Mar.
2026
12:00

Beyond Simple Decisions: Using Pac-Man to Reveal the Language of Problem-Solving
24.009

Tianming Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Rubén Moreno

20
Mar.
2026
12:00

Computational and neural principles of causal inference in multisensory perception
24.104

Tim Rohe (Friedrich Alexander University)

Salvador Soto Faraco

19
Mar.
2026
12:00

Organizing Behaviors Across Timescales
24.009

Quan Wen (University of Science and Technology of China)

Rubén Moreno 

5
Feb.
2026
12:00

Learning to understand: Statistical learning and language development
40.113

Jenny Saffran (University of Winconsin - Madison)

Nuria Sebastián Gallés, Chiara Santolin

23
Jan.
2026
10:30

Workshop on Probability, Guessing and their role role in Infant and Adult cognition
Auditori Mercè Rodoreda

Erno Teglas (Central European University) & Justin Halberda (Johns Hopkins University)

Luca Bonatti

28
Nov.
2025
12:00

What can we learn from stochastic parrots? A case for involving Large Language Models in cognitive science
40.113

Jarosław Lelonkiewicz (Universitat de Valencia)

Salvador Soto Faraco

7
Nov.
2025
12:00

Understanding Human Behavior through Similarity: A Geometric and Behavioral Rules-Based Approach to Games
24.S05

Rosemarie Nagel (ICREA, UPF, BSE)

Luca Bonatti

17
Oct.
2025
12:00

Newborns’ sensitivity to (pro)social goals
24.104

Alessandra Geraci (University of Catania, Italy)

Luca Bonatti

14
Jul.
2025
12:00

Intelligence Darwinism: From brain plasticity to consciousness to survival of the smartest
24.013

Chew Soo Hong and Richard Ebstein (Center for Intelligence Economic Science; Southwestern University of Finance and Economics)

Rosemarie Nagel

20
Jun.
2025
12:00

The Developmental Roots of Gendered Power: How Young Children Represent Gender Inequality
24.009

Cristina Galusca (Grenoble University)

Luca Bonatti

30
May.
2025
12:00

Not All Languages Are English: Broadening the range of target languages can highlight diverse ways infants may need to take to acquire their native language
24.009

Reiko Mazuka (RIKEN Center for Brain Science)

Nuria Sebastián Gallés

9
May.
2025
12:00

Optimal control of behaviour and networks
24.112

Juan Castineiras (Champalimaud Foundation)

Rubén Moreno 

25
Apr.
2025
12:00

Sequential Episodic Control: Memory, Learning, and Collaboration in Autonomous Systems
24.S19

Ismael Freire (Sorbonne University)

Rubén Moreno

7
Feb.
2025
12:00

Using neural networks to understand human learning
20.053

Chris Summerfield (DTIC)

CBC

24
Jan.
2025
12:00

Counting procedures and the ontogenesis of exact number knowledge
24.009

David Barner (UCSD)

Luca Bonatti

20
Dec.
2024
15:00

CBC XMAS Flash presentations by CBC PhDs
  • Daniel Díaz
  • Arek Yazdjian
  • Joana Navarro
  • Fatmaalzahraa
  • Ferran Mayayo
  • Irene Acero

CBC PhD students

22
Nov.
2024
12:00

Physics of AI: From artificial to cortical networks
24.112

Moritz Helias (Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich)

Ruben Moreno Bote

15
Nov.
2024
12:00

Unraveling the neural mechanisms underlying core “start-up” systems at birth
24.112

Marco Buiatti (University of Trento)

Luca Bonatti

8
Nov.
2024
12:00

Linking State-Space Geometry to Perceptual Biases in Simulated and Biological Cortical Circuits
20.025

Luis Serrano-Fernandez (UAM)

Rubén Moreno