Speech, Language and Cognition in
Brains, Minds and Machines

Talks and presentations

2023

invited lecture: Language Processing in Artificial Neural Networks and the Human Brain
Sensory Science Lectures, Erlangen, Germany

2022

invited popular science lecture: Language in Neural Networks and the Brain (1/2)
Adult Education Center (VHS), Herzogenaurach, Germany

invited popular science lecture: Language in Neural Networks and the Brain (2/2)
Adult Education Center (VHS), Herzogenaurach, Germany

invited guest lecture: Language processing in artificial neural networks and the human brain.
Brain Language Laboratory, Freie Universität Berlin , Germany

conference talk: Stochastic resonance and predictive coding as fundamental principles of auditory perception.
7th International Conference on Auditory Cortex, Magdeburg, Germany

conference presentation: Sleep as a random walk – Superstatistical analysis of EEG data across sleep stages.
30th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Sleep Research and Medicine (DGSM), Wiesbaden, Germany

popular science talk: The mind in the machine – Will we ever have conscious machines?
#WissenWollen, Erlangen, Germany
www.fau.tv/clip/id/42724 

popular science talk: The mind in the machine - Can computers ever become conscious?
Long night of sciences, Erlangen, Germany

invited popular science lecture: Conscious machines (1/2)
Adult Education Center (VHS), Herzogenaurach, Germany

invited popular science lecture: Conscious machines (2/2)
Adult Education Center (VHS), Herzogenaurach, Germany

invited seminar talk: The stochastic resonance model of auditory (phantom) perception.
Theoretical Neurobiology Seminar, Prof. Karl Friston, University College London, UK

conference talk: Building deep learning models to understand language processing in the human brain.
9th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association, Erfurt, Germany

2021

invited popular science lecture: The mind in the machine - can computers ever become conscious?
Humanities Festival, International College for Humanities Research (IKGF), Erlangen, Germany
youtu.be/ziLdOToIQYk 

invited seminar talk: Analysis of language processing in artificial neural networks and the human brain.
Seminar of the FAU Linguistics Lab, University of Erlangen, Germany

2020

invited talk: AI and neuroscience - two sides of the same coin?
Pattern Recognition Symposium, Chair of Machine Intelligence, University of Erlangen, Germany

guest lecture: Will there ever be Consciousness in the Machine?
Deep learning lecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Erlangen, Germany

invited popular science lecture: Artificial intelligence and brain research - two sides of the same coin?
Vocational school for geriatric and social care, Forchheim, Germany

conference presentation: Stochastic Resonance improved hearing and speech recognition provides a mechanistic explanation of subjective tinnitus.
13th International Tinnitus Research Initiative Conference, Vancouver, Canada

conference presentation: The Stochastic Resonance model of auditory perception: a unified explanation of tinnitus and Zwicker tone.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2020 Annual Meeting, Boston, USA

2019

invited seminar talk: Investigation of successor representation in language processing in artificial neural networks and the brain.
Seminar of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands

lecture: Cognitive Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Consciousness in the Machine
Summer course of the Board of European Students of Technology, Erlangen, Germany

invited conference talk: Cross-modal Stochastic resonance as a cause of subjective tinnitus.
12th International Tinnitus Research Initiative Conference, Taipei, Taiwan

invited seminar talk: Analysis of language processing in artificial neural networks and the human brain.
Seminar of the Brain Language Laboratory at Department of Philosophy and Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin , Germany

invited keynote lecture: Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience.
TIN-ACT Meeting, Erlangen, Germany

guest lecture: Artificial Neural Networks as models for language processing in the human brain.
Seminar of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, University of Erlangen, Germany

guest lecture: Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience.
Seminar of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, University of Erlangen, Germany

popular science talk: The mind in the machine - can computers ever become conscious?
Long night of sciences, Erlangen, Germany

invited popular science lecture: Artificial intelligence and brain research - two sides of the same coin?
Fall school for extraordinary talented pupils, Auerbach, Germany

conference presentation: Neural correlates of auditory perception.
10th IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience 2019, Daegu, Korea

conference presentation: Neural correlates of auditory perception.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2019 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA

2018

invited conference talk: Artificial Intelligence in sleep research.
26th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Sleep Research and Medicine (DGSM), Nürnberg, Germany

invited conference talk: Stochastic resonance controlled upregulation of internal noise after hearing loss as a putative cause of tinnitus-relatedneuronal hyperactivity.
11th International Tinnitus Research Initiative Conference and 2nd EU Cost Action (Tinnet) Conference, Regensburg, Germany

invited conference talk: A new statistical approach for the evaluation of gap-prepulse inhibition of the acoustic startle reflex (GPIAS) for tinnitus assessment.
11th International Tinnitus Research Initiative Conference and 2nd EU Cost Action (Tinnet) Conference, Regensburg, Germany

invited conference talk: Stochastic Resonance as a putative cause of subjective tinnitus.
45th Erlanger Kolloquium for Audiological Research and Development, Erlangen, Germany

conference presentation: EEG patterns reveal internal dynamics of sleep stage N3.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2018 Annual Meeting, Boston, USA

conference presentation: Stochastic resonance-like cross-modal enhancement as a universal neural computation and cognitive processing principle.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2018 Annual Meeting, Boston, USA

conference presentation: A possible new tinnitus therapy based on Stochastic Resonance phenomena.
Laryngo-Rhino-Otologie 97 (S02), 10185. 2018

2017

invited seminar talk: Could a neuroscientist understand a microprocessor?
Deep Learning Colloquium at Pattern Recognition Lab, University of Erlangen, Germany

invited seminar talk: Stochastic Resonance as a putative cause of subjective tinnitus.
Neurobiology Seminar at Division of Animal Physiology, University of Erlangen, Germany

invited seminar talk: Stochastic Resonance: a new model for tinnitus development.
EU Cost Action (Tinnet) Neuroimaging Workgroup Meeting, Marseille, France

invited conference talk: Automated Realtime Sleep Stage Classification.
25th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Sleep Research and Medicine (DGSM), Münster, Germany

invited conference talk: Tinnitus-related neuronal hyperactivity caused by stochastic resonance.
12th International Tinnitus Seminar and 1st World Tinnitus Congress, Warsaw, Poland

conference presentation: Stochastic resonance controlled upregulation of internal noise after hearing loss as a putative cause of tinnitus-related neuronal hyperactivity.
Society for Neuroscience 47th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., USA

conference presentation: A statistical method for analyzing and comparing spatiotemporal cortical steady state activity.
Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2017 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA

2016

invited seminar talk: A statistical method for analyzing and comparing spatiotemporal cortical activation patterns.
Institute for Experimental Pharmacology, University Erlangen, Germany

conference presentation: A statistical method for analyzing and comparing spatiotemporal cortical steady state activity.
Society for Neuroscience 46th Annual Meeting, San Diego, USA

conference presentation: Therapeutic value of Ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761® for noise trauma induced hearing loss and tinnitus.
10th International Tinnitus Research Initiative Conference and 1st EU Cost Action (Tinnet) Conference, Nottingham, UK

2015

conference presentation: Does ginkgo biloba extract EGb 761® have a therapeutic effect on noise induced hearing loss and subjective tinnitus?
11th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society (NWG), Göttingen, Germany

presentation: Detection of small signals in (neural) sensory systems - Adaptive stochastic resonance based on output autocorrelations.
Symposium Physics and Medicine of Max Planck Society, Erlangen, Germany

2013

conference presentation: Emergence of cell colony dynamics from proliferating particles with Lennard-Jones like interactions.
Conference on Physics of Emergent Behaviour – From single cells to individuals, IOP Biological Physics Group, Brighton, UK

conference presentation: Persistent motion in the crowd - The role of superdiffusivity in cell colony dynamics.
Annual Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Regensburg, Germany