Author Archives: mariahedblom

GSoC – student update

I am currently mentoring two students for the Red Hen Lab as part of Google Summer of Code. First project is: Simulating Multimodal Communication in Vervet Monkeys with Braitenberg Vehicles Student: Ankit Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur supervised by: … Continue reading

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CAOS V: Cognition and Ontologies 5

Now we have it confirmed that CAOS V will be taking place at JOWO@FOIS 2021, Bozen-Bolzano in September. Stay tuned! We will soon update the website and send out call for papers for those who wants to join the workshop! … Continue reading

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TransAIR workshop

This week, the TransAIR workshop on cognitive architectures with the purpose to create new and exciting research collaborations is taking place. The organisers asked me to participate as a moderator to some of the invited speakers’ Q&A sessions as well … Continue reading

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GSoC21

Invited by prof. Mark Turner to be a mentor at Red Hen Google Summer of Code 2021.

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Post-doc position in Bremen

It has now been confirmed that in February I will be joining Prof. Beetz’s cognitive robotics group at Bremen University working in the EASE collaborative research centre and the Horizon 2020 project MUHAI.

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Presentations and the (potential) revival of my academic career

A week ago I was invited to hold a talk at the Horizon 2020 project MUHAI’s kick-off meeting in Venice. My talk was called “What’s the meaning of this?” and concerned the role image schemas play in meaning formation for … Continue reading

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Covid-19 and its consequences for junior academics

The Covid-19 pandemic is hitting hard in many layers of society with people losing their jobs and their income. For junior academics, the pandemic is hitting particularly hard despite these individuals having high-levels of education and unique expertise. Already under … Continue reading

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It is now possible to order physical copies of my book: “Image Schemas and Concept Invention: Cognitive, Logical, and Linguistic Investigations” LINK

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Springer publication

Happy to announce that my PhD thesis has been published in a polished form in Springer’s Cognitive Technologies series. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030473280

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Abstract accepted to IACS4-2020

Our abstract: “The ontology of image schemas and the artificial mind” has been accepted for presentation at the IACS4-2020 held at the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, from July 2–4, 2020 (https://iacs4.signges.de/).

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