After two months of field work in Liberia, IMC researcher Theresa Ammann was called home due to concerns for her safety. Ebola had reached the capitol Monrovia and was spinning out of control. Back in Aarhus Theresa wrote this article about the crisis in Liberia and all the problems making a bad situation worse.

"Bias in Auditory Perception" is the name of an international linguistics conference to be held at Aarhus University from 18-20 September. The woman behind the conference is IMC researcher Marjoleine Sloos. But what exactly is bias in auditory perception and why do we need a conference about it? We asked Marjoleine.

After months of hard work and late nights at the IMC, archeologist Mette Løvschal could finally turn in her PhD dissertation last week. "Lines in the Landscape - Boundaries of the Mind" is the title. Read an excerpt of the summary here.

Chris and Uta Frith are currently visiting the IMC. Their visit has led to this interesting conversation between Chris & Uta Frith and Kristian Tylén about language and the social brain. This article by Uta Frith was recently posted on www.frithmind.org.

IMC took center stage when AU's Newsroom decided to make IMC the subject of a theme. Eight new articles about the centre and researchers was the result. These articles are now available in English. Read about them here.

A new face has turned up at IMC. Henning Drews from Germany has been a visiting researcher at the centre since August 18 and he'll be staying with us another three weeks. Read on and get to know Henning a little better and find out what he's doing here at the IMC.

A new last minute position for a postdoc or researcher with computing and experiment experience has been made available in a collaborative project between Aarhus University and the University of Sussex.

The second annual iCog conference, which is to be held at Edinburg University on October 15th-16th, invites the submission of abstracts from postgraduate and early-career researchers in anthropology, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and related disciplines. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 22nd August.

Culture and biology are more intertwined than we previously thought, says Andreas Roepstorff in this article from videnskab.dk, which got republished in Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. The article was a recap of the topics discussed by the panel at ESOF 2014. Please note: In Danish.

The conference Robo-Philosophy—Social Robotics and the Future of Social Relations will address philosophical issues that arise with the design and use of sociable robots. Can we have social interactions with robots? How much of a ‘theory of mind’ do robots need to be ‘sociable’?