Thanks to @agreco.bsky.social and Jannik Reichert for organizing the #NeuroAISymposium2026 and inviting us, this was a lot of fun, hope this series continues in the next years!
I have been inactive, but the group hasn't been! We presented two posters at the great #NCMKobe26: A computational account of tactile suppression during reaching movements & Coordinated head, body & eye movements support active sensing to reduce spatial uncertainty during navigation. Back next year!
framework of sequential decision-making under uncertainty, characterizing human strategies in constrained optimization problems, generating rationales of human sequential decisions via program induction based on a grammar derived from think-aloud protocols, and finally showing how task demands 2/3
3) Tobias Thomas, Constantin A. Rothkopf: Preference elicitation reveals stable Individual differences in costs of saccadic eye movements
4) Niteesh Midlagajni, Carola Stork, Jolande Fooken, Constantin Rothkopf: Gaze behavior while pouring a cup of coffee
On May 27th 2026, @ingaibs.bsky.social defended her PhD thesis 'Cognitive strategies and explanations for sequential decision-making: a task-centric approach' with distinction. Congratulations! Beautiful and super careful contributions to computationally categorizing problem-solving tasks in the 1/3
shape demonstration-based learning with inverse sequential decision-making and relating this back to human gaze.
Thanks to the committee:
Loes van Dam, Ute Schmid, Frank Jäkel, and @tsawallis.bsky.social 3/3
1) Inga Ibs, Ingolf Tegtmeier, Constantin A. Rothkopf: Gaze reveals how task demands shape learning from demonstrations
2) Tobias Niehues, Dominik Straub, Constantin Rothkopf: People's cost functions in sensorimotor decision-making reveal complex effort costs
5) Lukas Maninger, Lina Eicke-Kanani, Anna-Lena Eckert, Constantin A. Rothkopf, Thomas S. A. Wallis: Perception of causality depends on sensory uncertainties and biases in collision events
Our group contributed to the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society #VSS2026 with a symposium organized by @ookenfooken.bsky.social: 'What makes a task naturalistic? Towards a theory-inspired approach to studying visually-guided behaviour', and five posters:
I am presenting our work this week at #NCMKobe26 @ncmsociety.bsky.social
Our poster is during the Thursday/Friday session: **P2-G-182** - _A computational account of tactile suppression during reaching movements_
Dimitris Voudouris @dominikstrb.bsky.social Katja Fiehler @c-rothkopf.bsky.social
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Fabian Tatai
Why is touch perceived as weaker during movement?
In our new preprint 📝, we examine tactile suppression during reaching.
Using optimal control theory, we show that tactile suppression reflects dynamic, uncertainty-dependent integration of forward model predictions and sensory feedback.
