Journal Club
Journal Club
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Our journal club is organized by the Cognitive Robotics Lab (CInC, UAEM) in collaboration with our Embodied Cognition Lab (IIMAS, UNAM). The meetings are publicly accessible and held online via Zoom. Anyone interested in attending is welcome to join through the link provided below.
All talks are scheduled in Mexico City time (Central Time, UTC−6).
Friday, May 22, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.
Peter Keller, Center for Music in the Brain (MIB), part of the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University.
Talk title: Modeling Temporal Adaptation and Anticipation in Rhythmic Interpersonal Coordination.
Abstract:
Skill domains such as musical group performance, dance, and some team sports showcase the remarkable human capacity for the precise yet flexible coordination of action timing among individuals. Despite such rhythmic interpersonal coordination being based on fundamental sensory-motor mechanisms, there is a large variation in coordination skills between individuals. A growing body of research has used computational modeling approaches to explore behavioral and brain correlates of this diversity. I will give an overview of studies that have used the Adaptation and Anticipation Model (ADAM) to investigate rhythmic coordination skills in different domains, including human participants interacting with other humans, computer-controlled virtual partners, and robots, as well as in preliminary work with another species.
Friday, May 15, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
Matej Hoffmann, Department of Cybernetics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Czech Technical University in Prague.
Talk title: Understanding Human Body Representations Through Humanoid Robots
Abstract:
The literature on body representations falls short of identifying mechanisms responsible for constructing, operating, and adapting “body models”. Coherent unified body representations are attractive, but perhaps the mastery of our bodies should be best viewed as a “patchwork of skills”. In this talk, I will present a series of computational and embodied computational models on humanoid robots and discuss their potential to provide a mechanistic understanding of body representations and their development.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.
Josh Bongard, Veinott Professor of Computer Science at the University of Vermont and director of the Morphology, Evolution, and Cognition Laboratory.
Talk title: Xenobots, Polycomputation and the Future of AI
Abstract:
Despite the power of current AI, many are increasingly feeling its limits, from autocorrect fails to suggesting suicide to AI slop. In this talk I will discuss something that all organisms possess and all machines currently lack: performing actions internally to pretrain themselves for external novelty. I will argue that making robots and AI with similarly rich inner lives could usher in a new era of useful but also safe technologies. I will provide two examples of emerging technologies with such rich inner lives: xenobots and polycomputational materials. I will conclude with an interactive demo participants can conduct on their phones.
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