Invited talks
12/2022
After life: Grief and narrational scaffolding. Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University Melbourne, Australia.
11/2022
Distributed autobiographical memories, distributed self-narratives. Philosophy Departmental Seminar, University of Adelaide, Australia.
10/2022
What is self-narrative?. Philosophy Departmental Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
12/2021
Social connection in a digital world: Phubbing as extended mind-wandering (with Jelle Bruineberg) (online talk due to Covid-19). Embodied Cognitive Science Seminar, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
06/2021
Extended mind-wandering (with Jelle Bruineberg) (online talk due to Covid-19). 4E Cognition and Digital Technologies, Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics, Macquarie University, Australia.
05/2021
Capturing developmental dyscalculia: Implications for research on enculturated arithmetical cognition (online talk due to Covid-19). Numerous Numerosity, Society for Multidisplininary and Fundamental Research.
03/2021
What is the relationship between emotions and moods? Predictive Processing and the affective mind (online talk due to Covid-19). Emotion and Prediction. University of Sussex, Institute Jean Nicod, CHAIN, & IFICC.
02/2021
Enculturated arithmetical cognition (online talk due to Covid-19). Philosophy Seminars The Mark of the Mental. IUSS Pavia, Italy.
10/2020
A non-representational predictive processing account of major depressive disorder (online talk due to Covid-19). Psychopathology and the Scaling-up Problem, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
05/2020
Reading the world: An introduction to enculturated predictive processing (online lecture due to Covid-19). Max Planck Cognition Academy, Max Planck School of Cognition, Berlin, Germany.
09/2019
Arithmetical practices, cumulative cultural evolution, and enculturation. Mind: A Coevolution of Biology and Culture. University of Zagreb, Croatia.
06/2019
What can predictive processing tell us about spontaneous cognition? Predictive Processing and Its Role in Explaining Cognition. Ben-Gurion University and Hebrew University, Israel.
05/2019
Depressive experiences, writing, and epistemic agency: A Philosophical Dialogue with Siri Hustvedt’s (2016) Essay “The writing self and the psychiatric patient”. Workshop with Siri Hustvedt. Literature, Cognition and Emotions Research Group, University of Oslo, Norway.
05/2019
Telling stories across space and time: The enculturated predictive processing account of distributed narrative practices. Between Computation and Coordination: Distributed Perspectives on Language, Cognition, and Text-Based Artefacts. Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Warsaw, Poland.
04/2019
About the possibility of telling stories about love and loss: Narration and grief. Psychology, Philosophy and Literary Studies Read Together. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany.
01/2019
Where is your mind? The enculturated predictive processing perspective on the relationship between mind-wandering and reading (with Karin Kukkonen). Predictive Processing, Consciousness and Self. Department of Philosophy II, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
11/2018
Towards a predictive processing account of irony comprehension. Predictive Processing: State of the Art (and Just Beyond). Second Workshop of the X-Spect Research Project, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
12/2017
Spontaneous cognition and epistemic agency in the cognitive niche. Lab meeting of the Monash Neuroscience of Consciousness Group, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
12/2017
Into the dark room: A predictive processing account of major depressive disorder. Predictive Engines: Andy Clark and Predictive Processing, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
10/2017
The cultural evolution of cognitive normativity. The Cultural Evolution of Social Cognition, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
10/2017
Enculturated narrative practices. Research Group on Literature, Cognition and Emotion, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo, Norway.
04/2017
Turing revisited: Enculturation, computation, and symbol-based mathema-tical practices. Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
03/2017
Towards an explanatory framework for enculturated cognition. Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
01/2016
Brain – body – environment: The current debate on prediction error minimization in philosophy of cognitive science. Department of Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany.
06/2013
Reading as a cognitive practice: An action-oriented predictive processing account. Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Peer-reviewed talks at conferences and workshops
05/2022
Distributed autobiographical memories, distributed self-narratives (online talk due to Covid-19). Workshop on 4E Cognition and Memory, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
07/2021
Extended mind-wandering (with Jelle Bruineberg) (online talk due to Covid-19). Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2021, University of Waikato.
05/2021
Cognitive agency and attentional agency in literary narrative reading: The dynamical coordination of attention and mind-wandering (online talk due to Covid-19). Symposium on Narratives between attention and mind-wandering (with Sybille Baumbach, Johanna Kaakinen, and Karin Kukkonen), International Conference on Narrative 2021, International Society for the Study of Narrative.
09/2019
A fresh look at research strategies in computational cognitive science: The case of enculturated mathematical problem solving (with Markus Pantsar). European Conference for Cognitive Science 2019, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
09/2019
Feeling the void: A predictive processing account of major depressive disorder. Contribution to the symposium Losing our grip: Psychopathology and embodied predictive processing. European Conference for Cognitive Science 2019, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
08/2019
Understanding ourselves and others: The enculturated predictive processing approach to narrative practices. Social Cognition, Action and Technology, Technical University Berlin, Germany.
08/2019
Turing redux: An enculturation account of calculation and computation. 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology. University of Prague, Czech Republic.
03/2019
Predictive processing and delusion: On the looping dynamics of personal and sub-personal explanation (with Matteo Colombo). The Philosophy of Ian Hacking. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
03/2019
How cognitive tools transform our cognitive capacities in mathematical problem solving (and beyond): Cumulative cultural evolution and enculturation (with Markus Pantsar). Retuning Cognition with a Pair of Rocks: Culture, Evolution, Technology. University of Pittsburgh, USA.
10/2018
The cognitive role of embodied symbol manipulation in mathematical problem solving (with Markus Pantsar). Getting Real about Words and Numbers: Enactive Approaches to Language and Mathematics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
09/2018
What enculturated arithmetical practices can tell us about brain organization and embodied cognition (poster). Tenth International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP), University of Cologne, Germany.
06/2018
Of levels, competence, and performance: Towards an explanation of enculturated mathematical problem-solving (poster; with Markus Pantsar). Models of Explanation, University of Turin, Italy.
03/2018
Can handwriting improve reasoning performance? (with Estefania Gazzo and Markus Knauff). 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, University of Marburg, Germany.
11/2017
Narrative practices in the therapeutic niche. Worlding the Brain: Affect, Care, and Engagement, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
08/2017
Fragile bodies, fragile minds: The role of embodied active inference in predictive processing accounts of mental disorders. 9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany.
08/2017
Enculturated creativity. 9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany.
07/2017
Explaining enculturated cognition. 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, United Kingdom.
06/2017
Enculturation and embodied literacy. Getting Real about Words and Numbers: Enactive Approaches to Language and Mathematics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
08/2016
Enculturated predictive processing (poster). 24th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
05/2016
Predictive processing and cognitive development. 23. MIND Group Meeting, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
03/2016
The enculturated predictive processing perspective on reading acquisition. Worlding the Brain: Patterns, Rhythms, Narratives in Neuroscience and the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
03/2016
Predicting the future of neurophilosophy: Implications of the predictive processing framework. Rudolf Carnap-Lectures with Patricia S. Churchland, University of Bochum, Germany.
04/2015
Cases of developmental dyslexia: An enculturated predictive processing perspective. 22. MIND Group Meeting, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
03/2014
Reading in the mind’s eye: The constitutive role of eye movements in written language processing. 20. MIND Group Meeting, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
11/2013
How cases of autism can inform a philosophical theory of reading. Brain – Body – Environment: Recent Approaches to Consciousness and Cognition, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.
11/2013
Reading and enculturated cognition: An action-oriented predictive processing account. Thinking with Hands, Eyes and Things: 1st International Avant Conference, Centre for Philosophical Research, Torun, Poland.
10/2013
Towards a philosophical framework for research on reading: Combining action-oriented predictive processing and cognitive integration. BBPA Masterclass on Predictive Processing, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
05/2013
How text comprehension influences phenomenal simulation: The case of perspective-taking in personal memory. Point of View in Memory and Imagery: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Perspective, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
12/2022
After life: Grief and narrational scaffolding. Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University Melbourne, Australia.
11/2022
Distributed autobiographical memories, distributed self-narratives. Philosophy Departmental Seminar, University of Adelaide, Australia.
10/2022
What is self-narrative?. Philosophy Departmental Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
12/2021
Social connection in a digital world: Phubbing as extended mind-wandering (with Jelle Bruineberg) (online talk due to Covid-19). Embodied Cognitive Science Seminar, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
06/2021
Extended mind-wandering (with Jelle Bruineberg) (online talk due to Covid-19). 4E Cognition and Digital Technologies, Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics, Macquarie University, Australia.
05/2021
Capturing developmental dyscalculia: Implications for research on enculturated arithmetical cognition (online talk due to Covid-19). Numerous Numerosity, Society for Multidisplininary and Fundamental Research.
03/2021
What is the relationship between emotions and moods? Predictive Processing and the affective mind (online talk due to Covid-19). Emotion and Prediction. University of Sussex, Institute Jean Nicod, CHAIN, & IFICC.
02/2021
Enculturated arithmetical cognition (online talk due to Covid-19). Philosophy Seminars The Mark of the Mental. IUSS Pavia, Italy.
10/2020
A non-representational predictive processing account of major depressive disorder (online talk due to Covid-19). Psychopathology and the Scaling-up Problem, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
05/2020
Reading the world: An introduction to enculturated predictive processing (online lecture due to Covid-19). Max Planck Cognition Academy, Max Planck School of Cognition, Berlin, Germany.
09/2019
Arithmetical practices, cumulative cultural evolution, and enculturation. Mind: A Coevolution of Biology and Culture. University of Zagreb, Croatia.
06/2019
What can predictive processing tell us about spontaneous cognition? Predictive Processing and Its Role in Explaining Cognition. Ben-Gurion University and Hebrew University, Israel.
05/2019
Depressive experiences, writing, and epistemic agency: A Philosophical Dialogue with Siri Hustvedt’s (2016) Essay “The writing self and the psychiatric patient”. Workshop with Siri Hustvedt. Literature, Cognition and Emotions Research Group, University of Oslo, Norway.
05/2019
Telling stories across space and time: The enculturated predictive processing account of distributed narrative practices. Between Computation and Coordination: Distributed Perspectives on Language, Cognition, and Text-Based Artefacts. Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Warsaw, Poland.
04/2019
About the possibility of telling stories about love and loss: Narration and grief. Psychology, Philosophy and Literary Studies Read Together. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany.
01/2019
Where is your mind? The enculturated predictive processing perspective on the relationship between mind-wandering and reading (with Karin Kukkonen). Predictive Processing, Consciousness and Self. Department of Philosophy II, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
11/2018
Towards a predictive processing account of irony comprehension. Predictive Processing: State of the Art (and Just Beyond). Second Workshop of the X-Spect Research Project, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
12/2017
Spontaneous cognition and epistemic agency in the cognitive niche. Lab meeting of the Monash Neuroscience of Consciousness Group, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
12/2017
Into the dark room: A predictive processing account of major depressive disorder. Predictive Engines: Andy Clark and Predictive Processing, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
10/2017
The cultural evolution of cognitive normativity. The Cultural Evolution of Social Cognition, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
10/2017
Enculturated narrative practices. Research Group on Literature, Cognition and Emotion, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo, Norway.
04/2017
Turing revisited: Enculturation, computation, and symbol-based mathema-tical practices. Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
03/2017
Towards an explanatory framework for enculturated cognition. Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
01/2016
Brain – body – environment: The current debate on prediction error minimization in philosophy of cognitive science. Department of Philosophy, University of Bonn, Germany.
06/2013
Reading as a cognitive practice: An action-oriented predictive processing account. Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Peer-reviewed talks at conferences and workshops
05/2022
Distributed autobiographical memories, distributed self-narratives (online talk due to Covid-19). Workshop on 4E Cognition and Memory, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
07/2021
Extended mind-wandering (with Jelle Bruineberg) (online talk due to Covid-19). Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference 2021, University of Waikato.
05/2021
Cognitive agency and attentional agency in literary narrative reading: The dynamical coordination of attention and mind-wandering (online talk due to Covid-19). Symposium on Narratives between attention and mind-wandering (with Sybille Baumbach, Johanna Kaakinen, and Karin Kukkonen), International Conference on Narrative 2021, International Society for the Study of Narrative.
09/2019
A fresh look at research strategies in computational cognitive science: The case of enculturated mathematical problem solving (with Markus Pantsar). European Conference for Cognitive Science 2019, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
09/2019
Feeling the void: A predictive processing account of major depressive disorder. Contribution to the symposium Losing our grip: Psychopathology and embodied predictive processing. European Conference for Cognitive Science 2019, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
08/2019
Understanding ourselves and others: The enculturated predictive processing approach to narrative practices. Social Cognition, Action and Technology, Technical University Berlin, Germany.
08/2019
Turing redux: An enculturation account of calculation and computation. 16th International Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology. University of Prague, Czech Republic.
03/2019
Predictive processing and delusion: On the looping dynamics of personal and sub-personal explanation (with Matteo Colombo). The Philosophy of Ian Hacking. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
03/2019
How cognitive tools transform our cognitive capacities in mathematical problem solving (and beyond): Cumulative cultural evolution and enculturation (with Markus Pantsar). Retuning Cognition with a Pair of Rocks: Culture, Evolution, Technology. University of Pittsburgh, USA.
10/2018
The cognitive role of embodied symbol manipulation in mathematical problem solving (with Markus Pantsar). Getting Real about Words and Numbers: Enactive Approaches to Language and Mathematics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
09/2018
What enculturated arithmetical practices can tell us about brain organization and embodied cognition (poster). Tenth International Conference of the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP), University of Cologne, Germany.
06/2018
Of levels, competence, and performance: Towards an explanation of enculturated mathematical problem-solving (poster; with Markus Pantsar). Models of Explanation, University of Turin, Italy.
03/2018
Can handwriting improve reasoning performance? (with Estefania Gazzo and Markus Knauff). 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists, University of Marburg, Germany.
11/2017
Narrative practices in the therapeutic niche. Worlding the Brain: Affect, Care, and Engagement, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
08/2017
Fragile bodies, fragile minds: The role of embodied active inference in predictive processing accounts of mental disorders. 9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany.
08/2017
Enculturated creativity. 9th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany.
07/2017
Explaining enculturated cognition. 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, London, United Kingdom.
06/2017
Enculturation and embodied literacy. Getting Real about Words and Numbers: Enactive Approaches to Language and Mathematics, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
08/2016
Enculturated predictive processing (poster). 24th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, University of St. Andrews, United Kingdom.
05/2016
Predictive processing and cognitive development. 23. MIND Group Meeting, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
03/2016
The enculturated predictive processing perspective on reading acquisition. Worlding the Brain: Patterns, Rhythms, Narratives in Neuroscience and the Humanities, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
03/2016
Predicting the future of neurophilosophy: Implications of the predictive processing framework. Rudolf Carnap-Lectures with Patricia S. Churchland, University of Bochum, Germany.
04/2015
Cases of developmental dyslexia: An enculturated predictive processing perspective. 22. MIND Group Meeting, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
03/2014
Reading in the mind’s eye: The constitutive role of eye movements in written language processing. 20. MIND Group Meeting, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
11/2013
How cases of autism can inform a philosophical theory of reading. Brain – Body – Environment: Recent Approaches to Consciousness and Cognition, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany.
11/2013
Reading and enculturated cognition: An action-oriented predictive processing account. Thinking with Hands, Eyes and Things: 1st International Avant Conference, Centre for Philosophical Research, Torun, Poland.
10/2013
Towards a philosophical framework for research on reading: Combining action-oriented predictive processing and cognitive integration. BBPA Masterclass on Predictive Processing, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
05/2013
How text comprehension influences phenomenal simulation: The case of perspective-taking in personal memory. Point of View in Memory and Imagery: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives on Perspective, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.