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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Sep 3

For all at @au.dk, our Writing Cafe is back from this Friday (5th Sept)! We offer a space for distraction-free writing and welcome new faces warmly.

The magic of peer pressure, coffee & snacks = focused time.

End the week on a good note: 1483, Room 312. interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

IMC Friday Writing Café

An open, self-organized space for doing concentrated writing

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Marc Malmdorf Andersen @ndersen.bsky.social · Aug 8

🧟‍♂️🚨 Publication alert! 🚨🧟‍♀️

Holy moly, I'm thrilled to announce our new paper in Emotion! We explored how recreational fear, physiological synchrony, and social closeness interact in a high-intensity haunted house setting. 1/5 🧵

Link: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Jun 10

Coming up June 16th, we have a very special event for postdoc-level researchers - all are welcome to join us! Sign up here:

Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project. Networking, lunch, new research ideas interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

Play the “GRANTED!” Research Grant Game and win 20.000 DKK for your Interdisciplinary project

Interdisciplinary workshop for postdoc-level researchers

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · May 8

How do we build theory in cogsci? traditional physics w its rich data and experimental possibilities is often used as parangon. We argue historical sciences provide an equally rich source: "Lessons for Theory from Scientific Domains Where Evidence is Sparse or Indirect": doi.org/10.1007/s421... 🧵 1/

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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.bsky.social · May 9

Our daily lives are packed w complex behaviours: reading a novel & piecing together the plot; negotiating decisions w family... How do we build mathematical models of the underlying cognitive mechanisms? Our new preprint osf.io/d2v54_v1 argues for a community approach A 🧵 1/

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · May 28

It was such a pleasure to have you here and discuss how abstraction plays out in conversations! (interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...)

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Christine Parsons @christineparsons.bsky.social · May 13

1/2 Coming up in June, @interacting-minds.bsky.social hosts a workshop for postdoc- level researchers.

Play the GRANTED! Research Game and win 20,000 DKK for your interdisciplinary project.

All welcome to join - we will place you into teams. Networking, lunch, new research ideas

Play the “GRANTED!” Research Grant Game and win 20.000 DKK for your Interdisciplinary project

Interdisciplinary workshop for postdoc-level researchers

interactingminds.au.dk

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Trupthi Karanth Ramadeva @trupthi.bsky.social · May 5

Looking forward to Funda Yilmaz's talk tomorrow at IMC! @fundayilmaz.bsky.social

Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · May 2

Next Tuesday Seminar at the IMC is by Funda Yilmaz from the Donders Institute!

An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art

Tuesday May 6th, 11am - all are welcome!

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An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art

IMC Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Funda Yilmaz, PhD candidate, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University

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Christine Parsons @christineparsons.bsky.social · May 5

Tomorrow 6th May, we have Funda Yilmaz from @dondersinst.bsky.social giving a talk @interacting-minds.bsky.social, "An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency + the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art”.

All welcome!
interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art

IMC Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Funda Yilmaz, PhD candidate, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University

interactingminds.au.dk

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · May 2

The talks will cover various cool methodologies and technologies for experimentation outside the lab (e.g. wearable eye tracking, location sensing, smartphones, physiology, museum event-based research, etc. - get inspired or find your next collaboration here!

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · May 2

Minds in society: Learning and cognition applied

Join us for this one-day interdisciplinary seminar with a stellar line-up incl Ophelia Deroy, Morten Nielsen, Christine Parsons, Ella Paldam, Marc Andersen!

All are welcome, feel free to sign up!

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Minds in society: Learning and cognition applied

One-day interdisciplinary seminar

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · May 2

Next Tuesday Seminar at the IMC is by Funda Yilmaz from the Donders Institute!

An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art

Tuesday May 6th, 11am - all are welcome!

interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

An fMRI Study of Crossmodal Emotional Congruency and the Role of Semantic Content in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Naturalistic Art

IMC Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Funda Yilmaz, PhD candidate, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University

interactingminds.au.dk

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Mette Terp Hoybye @mettehoybye.bsky.social · Apr 24

Now is the time to go write 📝 your application for this exciting postdoc position in our project exploring how the shift from animal to human-based research models shapes science and society 🔬🌍
Deadline Monday Apr 27

www.au.dk/om/stillinge...
@interacting-minds.bsky.social

Postdoc in medical anthropology/STS - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Institut for Klinisk Medicin - Interacting Minds Centre (IMC), Aarhus Universitet

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Apr 11

IMC Podcast Season 4 is out!☀️

The 1st episode starts with the peculiar problems that house crows in Tanzania have brought to the coastal area of East Africa🐦‍⬛

Kirsi Tilk is visited by Samwel Ntapanta from the IMC Postdoc training program - Check out the podcast here!

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Interacting Minds Podcast

Interacting Minds is an interdisciplinary research podcast hosted by Arnault-Quentin Vermillet and Savhannah Schulz. In each episode, the two are joined by fellow interdisciplinary researchers to expl...

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Apr 8

Join us today, starting soon (incl on zoom)!

Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Apr 4

Next Tuesday (Apr, 8 11am) we're happy to have Prof Robert Barton, Durham University, presenting his talk:

Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution

Join us at the IMC or online - all are welcome!

interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution

Interacting Minds Centre Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Robert Barton, professor, Department of Anthropology, Durham University

interactingminds.au.dk

Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Apr 4

Next Tuesday (Apr, 8 11am) we're happy to have Prof Robert Barton, Durham University, presenting his talk:

Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution

Join us at the IMC or online - all are welcome!

interactingminds.au.dk/events/singl...

Brains growing on the tree of life: the what, when, why & how of primate brain evolution

Interacting Minds Centre Tuesday Seminar: Talk by Robert Barton, professor, Department of Anthropology, Durham University

interactingminds.au.dk

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Mar 24

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Mar 24

Tomorrow - Tuesday 25th March 11am, we have an excellent talk lined up with Alejandrina Cristia, senior researcher at CNRS

"Broadening giants' shoulders: Long-Form Recordings to Study Infants' Vocal Development and Speech Environments"

All are welcome! Building 1483, 312 (Meeting Room).

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Mar 17

Job opening at the IMC!!! - come work with @mettehoybye.bsky.social on this exciting new project.
Application deadline is April 28, 2025

Mette Terp Hoybye @mettehoybye.bsky.social · Mar 14

📣 Come work with us at @interacting-minds.bsky.social to ethnographically explore how the shift from animal to human-based research models shapes science and society.
International applicants most welcome 🤗
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Postdoc in medical anthropology/STS - Ledig stilling på Aarhus Universitet

Ledig stilling ved Institut for Klinisk Medicin - Interacting Minds Centre (IMC), Aarhus Universitet

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Mar 7

Looking forward to the PhD defence by IMC researcher and artist Helene Nymann from the EER project!

Thesis title: "Memories of Sustainable Futures: Mnemonic Practices for the Intersubjective Spaces Between Artworks and Worlds"

Open to all, 14 March, 1pm:

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Mar 6

New paper out on #JointAction from Cordula Vesper & co - big congrats!

Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal

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Joint action partners modulate the first step of an action sequence to communicate a distal goal

When two co-actors perform a joint action, they often communicatively modulate their instrumental actions so as to facilitate each other's predictions…

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Anna Zamm @annapzamm.bsky.social · Dec 6

Excited to join the Bsky community! As a starter post, will share a recent paper published with colleagues @janeenloehr.bsky.social, Cordula Vesper, @sinelabdtu.bsky.social, Simon L Kappel, @oleadrian.bsky.social, Peter Vuust, @perikeller.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/scan/article...

A practical guide to EEG hyperscanning in joint action research: from motivation to implementation

Abstract. Developments in cognitive neuroscience have led to the emergence of hyperscanning, the simultaneous measurement of brain activity from multiple p

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Feb 24

We're looking forward to the next IMC Research Meeting tomorrow - and discussing the projects of Yngwie Asbjørn Nielsen and Luke Ring 🧠🌱

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IMC Research Meeting for Experimental and Computational studies

An informal setting for discussing "work in progress"

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Interacting Minds Centre @interacting-minds.bsky.social · Feb 21

Dont forget you can join the writing cafe today (and every friday) - there's even snacks and coffee to keep the typing going! 👩‍💻🍫🍪☕️🧑‍💻
- reach out to @chrismmcox.bsky.social or @trupthi.bsky.social if you need to join online

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Christine Parsons @christineparsons.bsky.social · Feb 6

One @interacting-minds.bsky.social initiative that I'm very proud of is our Friday writing cafe.

If you're around @au.dk and want to experience the magic of co-writing, come along tomorrow at 10.00 - 14.00. There'll be snacks! Big thx to our organisers @chrismmcox.bsky.social @trupthi.bsky.social

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