News & Events
Upcoming Events
Jim Wilce to discuss "The Semiotics of Authenticity," more details here
May 17th 2013 in the IMC meeting room, Aarhus University.
As part of The Interacting Minds Lecture Series for Spring 2013, Ken Binmore will discuss how "Fairness Evolved as a Coordination Device"
May 17th 2013 at Nobelparken 1482-105, Aarhus University.
The Eighth Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS), "Sign Evolution on Multiple Time Scales"
May 29th-31st 2013 at the Centre for Semiotics, Aarhus University.
The conference brings together international scholars from a range of disciplines each addressing questions about sign evolution in relation to particular time scales ranging from biological and cultural evolution to ontogeny and online social interaction. Consult the following webpage for more information on speakers, program and registration.
If you have any questions or comments related to the conference organization, please email Kristian Tylén: kristian@nordicsemiotics.org
MINDS IN COMMON -- Second Aarhus-Paris Conference on Coordination and Common Ground
June 25th-26th 2013 at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
The second Aarhus - Paris conference in social ontology and social cognition addresses the role of coordination and common ground in the constitution of the social reality, as well as their relations within the architecture of human social cognition. Coordination of behaviour depends on common ground at multiple levels: a shared understanding of who is coordinating with whom, what their goals and strategies are, what objects, people and events are relevant to the shared goal. Common ground may include things as different as physical bodies, artefacts, spaces, linguistic contexts, mutual knowledge and the background of human-like biological propensities. On the other hand, coordination also creates and sustains common ground, e.g. by means of bodily synchronization, conversational and mental alignment, the sharing of conventional worlds and situation models.
For more information on speakers, program and registration.
News
25 April 2013
The Interacting Minds Centre hosted a workshop entitled "Information and Predictability in Social Interactions."
Consult the following webpage for more information on speakers and the program.
23 April 2013
As part of The Interacting Minds Lecture Series for Spring 2013, Robert Kurzban offered a presentation about “Morality as a Dynamic Coordination Device.”
8-9 April 2013
An international group of scholars attended the Bochum-Aarhus Cooperation III meeting, “Cooperation: Why, How, and with Whom?”
Further information can be found here ...
4-5 April 2013
The Interacting Minds Centre hosted the workshop "Predictions, Bodies and Ecologies: New Directions for the Cognitive Sciences?"
More details about the meeting can be found here ...
6-8 March 2013
An international group of researchers participated in a workshop entitled "Modelling Emerging Norms," investigating the evolution of norms and conventions.
Read more about the workshop here ...
4 February 2013
Johanna Seibt, Marco Nørskov, Simon Larsen, Raffaele Rodogno, Torben Bräuner, and Thomas Bolander led a workshop entitled "Social Robotics and Modelling Theory of Mind."
Read more about the workshop here ...
6-7 November 2012
Günter Schiepek led a workshop entitled "Nonlinear Dynamics and Synergetics: Theoretical Foundations, Analysis Methods, and Application to the Human Sciences (Brain Dynamics, Psychology, Psychotherapy)" when he visited in November.
Read more about Günter Schiepek here ...
1 November 2012
Marika Moisseef and Michael Houseman shared their thoughts on the four metaperspectives (i.e., Coordination, Confusion, Conflict, and Cooperation) of the new Interacting Minds Centre.
Read more about Marika Moisseef here ...
Read more about Michael Houseman here ...
27 September 2012
Consciousness @ MINDLab, scientific workshop
Two consciousness researchers, Mika Koivisto, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Turku, Finland and Tony Jack, Brain, Mind and Consciousness Lab, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA gave talks at a MINDLab scientific workshop on consciousness.
Read abstracts for the two guest talks here ...
Read more about Mika Koivisto here ...
Read more about Tony Jack here ...
13-15 September 2012
TESIS Workshop
The TESIS Network held its September workshop, “Experimental Approaches to Embodiment and Intersubjectivity,” from Thursday, September 13 to Saturday, September 15 in the Studenterhus at Aarhus University.
For more information, please consult the website 
29 August 2012
Autism Aarhus Symposium 2012
The second annual Autism Aarhus Symposium was held on Wednesday 29 August 2012 in the DNC Auditorium at Aarhus University Hospital.
Chair: Professor Uta Frith
Read more here ...
10 August 2012
Interview with Andreas Roepstorff on the new interdisciplinary AU research centre: Interacting Minds. Read about it here.
17 July 2012
New article in Psychological Science from Interacting Minds researchers on how language is employed to build collective cognition. Read more here.
20 June 2012
The (UK) Queen has been graciously pleased to approve the following honorary British award to Professor Uta Frith: Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE). Read more here.
18 June 2012
Professor Uta Frith (Honorary Fellow of Newnham College) has been conferred with an honorary degree by the University of Cambridge. Read more here.
4 June 2012
Interacting Minds Centre
The Interacting Minds Centre, headed by MINDLab co-director Prof. Andreas Roepstorff, has been selected as one of 5 new strategic interdisciplinary research centers at Aarhus University. Read more here (in danish).
1 May 2012
Guest professor in the Interacting Minds group at CFIN, Uta Frith has been elected foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences. On Tuesday 1 May 2012 The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates from 15 countries in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected bring the total number of active members to 2,152 and the total number of foreign associates to 430. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States.
8 February 2012
New article in Neuropsychopharmacology from Interacting Minds researchers on how Ritalin modulates social influence. Read more here.
13 June 2011
On Tuesday, 20 June Ivana Konvalinka will defend her PhD thesis, “Interacting minds, brains, and bodies: Behavioural, neural, and physiological mechanisms of joint action in social interaction.” Details here: Ivana
19 May 2011
“The Curious Brain in the Museum” is a short film commissioned by The Royal Society after IM researcher & leading development psychologist Uta Frith’s 2010 Henry Cole lecture.
2 May 2011
IM PhD candidate Ivana Konvalinka has a new publication in PNAS entitled “Synchronized arousal between performers and related spectators in a fire-walking ritual.” Read the full article at the link above, or see theNational Geographic coverage of the publication.
1 May 2011
Interacting Minds researcher Ethan Weed will defend his Phd Tuesday, 3 May, at 13.00 in Studenternes Hus Room 2. All are welcome! More information here
8 March 2011
CFIN researcher Eduardo Garza will defend his PhD thesis (in English) on Tuesday 15 March 2011 at 11.00 in Palle Juul-Jensen Auditoriet, DNC Building 10G, Nørrebrogade 44, Aarhus C. Read more here: Eduardo Garza
7 February 2011
Several IM associated researchers will be giving lectures at Folkeuniversitetet "The Danish University Extension," in a series of lectures on "Hjernens Gåde" (“Brain Puzzles”). Read more here.
31 January 2011
Interacting Minds researcher Joshua Skewes will defend his PhD thesis, “Agency: A Philosophical Concept in Psychological Science”. Read more here.
27 January 2011
IM associated postdoctoral fellow Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn has received DKK 3.151.742 as a highly prestigious and highly competitive Sapere-Aude grant, with the project: The neurobiology of observational learning: discovery with model-based fMRI toward new clinical markers of cognitive ability. He has been honoured at the annual EliteForsk-pris ceremony in Copenhagen. Read more about the EliteForsk initiative here(in Danish).
16 December 2010
PhD candidate Micah Allen has been awarded the Mind & Life Institute’s 2010‐2011 Francisco J. Varela Research Award. Read more about the Francisco J. Varela Award here.
17 June 2010
Press release: How the Opinions of Others Affects Our Valuation of Objects. New article in Current Biology by Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn et al.