Fellows 2019 Fellows 2019 Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg Institute for Advanced Study Brain Earth Energy 6 | Dr. Bernhard Fink 22 | Asst. Prof. Dr. Marshall Bowles 46 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kyle Vincent Camarda 8 | Dr. Harmen Gudde 24 | Prof. Dr. Carl J. Carrano 48 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Traian Dumitrica˘ 10 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Makris 26 | Dr. Hayley C. Cawthra 50 | Prof. Dr. Stefan Heinz 12 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asma Naz 28 | Dr. Colleen M. Hansel 52 | Prof. Dr. Lucy Pao 14 | Asst. Prof. Dr. Hedda Rahel Schmidtke 30 | Dr. Cajetan Neubauer 54 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Debesh Ranjan Roy 16 | Dr. Monika Turk 32 | Dr. Beth N. Orcutt 56 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Martin Wosnik 18 | Dr. Myat Su Yin 34 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hendrik Schäfer 36 | Dr. Scott D. Wankel 38 | Prof. Dr. Michael J. Whiticar 40 | Prof. Dr. Horacio E. Zagarese 42 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wiebke Ziebis 2 Society Arts and Literature Future Fellows – a selection 60 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayten Alkan 82 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Catherine Bush 92 | Dr. Marianna Anichini 62 | Asst. Prof. Dr. Marci Cottingham 84 | Björn SC Deigner 94 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shauna A. Murray 64 | Christophe Delory 86 | Lida Sherafatmand 96 | Prof. Dr. Andreas Teske 66 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Amy Hasinoff 88 | Dr. Padma Venkatraman 98 | Dr. Kamal Hajian 68 | Prof. Dr. Ward Keeler 100 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Martin Obligado 70 | Prof. Dr. Semion Lyandres 102 | Dr. Tim Dorlach 72 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alison M. Moore 104 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Carsten Levisen 74 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Philipp Rehm 106 | Asst. Prof. Chrissy Kolaya 76 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Melanie Tanielian 78 | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Inés Valdez Tappatá 3 © Torsten von Reeken von Torsten © 4 © Torsten von Reeken von Torsten © Brain 2019 5 Dr. Bernhard Fink HWK Fellow Fellowship 05/2018 – 02/2019 Home institution Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Georg-Elias-Müller-Institut für Psychologie Biologische Persönlichkeitspsychologie Kellnerweg 6 37077 Göttingen Germany Cooperation partner Yulia Apalkova Russian Academy of Sciences Russia 6 The Evolution and Function of Human Dance I propose that humans have evolved During my fellowship I review and evaluate cognitive mechanisms for the assessment evidence for conflicting theories on the of social information from body movement. evolution and social function of human These adaptations, together with language dance. I aim to elucidate why dance has and music skills, may then have been used such a prominent role in human society to share information beyond the mating and develop strategies for investigation of context, thus facilitating ritualized forms remaining questions. I also use insights for of social exchange to build coalitions the formulation of future research directions and strengthen social cohesion through and strategies with an emphasize on the synchronous activity. Social bonding importance of considering motor behavior through dance thus could have evolved as in the investigation of human social a consequence of the adaptive problem of perception. identifying honest cues of quality from body movement. 7 Dr. Harmen Gudde HWK Junior Fellow Fellowship 06/2019 – 03/2020 Home institution University of East Anglia School of Psychology Faculty of Social Science Norwich Research Park Norwich NR4 7TJ United Kingdom Cooperation partners Prof. Dr. Kenneth R. Coventry University of East Anglia United Kingdom Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Herrmann University of Bremen 8 Object-location Memory and Object Knowledge: Underlying Mechanisms and Neural Correlates Remembering where objects are located Most models of object location memory is essential in everyday life (without it we assume that object properties are bound would be continually engaged in looking for to object location and can therefore only our keys, phone, or glasses) and may hold affect location memory at retrieval (but one of the keys to understanding healthy not encoding). In contrast, consistent with vs. pathological ageing. However, the models of predictive coding, the expectation mechanisms of object-location memory are model suggests that memory for object not well-understood. My programme of work location is a concatenation of where an focuses on the underlying mechanisms of object was and where it was expected to be, memory for object location, concentrating as a function of object knowledge. on how information about what objects are affects the memory for where they are. My project examines how and when object Previous research has shown that memory knowledge affects the representation for where an object is located is affected of object location, using fMRI, to tease by knowledge about that object, including apart these different models, help with an information about its ownership, familiarity, understanding of neural system underlying or how it has been previously described. For object-location memory, and test whether example, owned objects are remembered to effects occur at encoding or retrieval. be closer by than objects that are not owned by the remembering individual. 9 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nikolaos Makris HWK Fellow Fellowship 01/2019 – 03/2019 Home institution Harvard Medical School Center for Morphometric Analysis Massachusetts General Hospital Building 149, 13th Street Charlestown, MA 02129 USA Cooperation partner Prof. Dr. Ron Kikinis Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS, University of Bremen 10 MRI-based Parcellation of the Human Brainstem Our brain constantly monitors our Brainstem organisation and integration bodily functions and the outside world within the brain is related to its through its dual connection with our anatomic connections. Recently, internal world on the one hand, and the these conceptual neurobiological and external environment on the other. It is behavioral developments have been put through this dual connection that our to experimental testing using cutting- brain mediates efficiently between vital edge advancements in neuroimaging vegetative requirements of the body and technology which enable a more detailed the continuously changing world around study of brain anatomy, physiology and us. How the brain is anatomically and metabolism. Arguably, the brainstem has physiologically equipped to carry out been the least-studied so far among the this very complex activity is a critically intracranial brain structures albeit its important field of investigation in current undisputed relevance in autonomic, neuroscience and medicine in general. affective and cognitive functions, and, Importantly, neurochemical, functional and most importantly, states of consciousness. metabolic studies have shown that one part of the brain, namely the brainstem, The goal of my work is to elucidate the plays an important role in numerous other detailed structural anatomy and especially than vegetative brain functions such as the connections of the human brainstem. awareness, fear, pleasure, attention and memory. 11 Assoc. Prof. Dr. Asma Naz HWK Junior Fellow Fellowship 09/2018 – 01/2019 08/2019 – 12/2019 Home institution The University of Texas at Dallas antÉ Institute 800 W. Campbell Rd. Richardson, TX 75080 USA Cooperation partner Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka University of Bremen 12 Perception-based Interactive Architecture The research focuses on designing a The objective of my work is to investigate new form of human-space interaction the adaptive process of the interactive living pertinent to architecture. It explores space involving neural networks and "deep a real-world concept of an adaptive, learning". Neural networks mimic how the interactive, spatially optimized living space brain works and can be trained to learn from for the rapidly growing generation of examples. In artificial intelligence, deep mobile tech professionals, such as Silicon learning is a way of training neural Valley employees, freelancers, and global networks through application of image expatriates. It is meant to act as a response recognition techniques. The purpose is to to the acute housing crisis they currently enable a given space to "learn" to make face in high-density cities, such as San spatial modifications that better suit its Francisco, New York, London, and Hongkong. occupants’ needs. Through interaction, the user may modify architectural design elements such as The research scope involves the design of an their light, color, texture or material to interaction interface. A virtual environment change their emotional or spatial qualities. can be used as a potential evaluation tool for Interaction is regulated by a set of design the space. principles formulated from correlations between design elements and space perception. 13 Asst. Prof. Dr. Hedda Rahel Schmidtke HWK Fellow Fellowship 09/2019 – 05/2020 Home institution University of Oregon Department of Geography 1251, 107 Condon Hall Eugene, OR 97403-1251 USA Cooperation partners Prof. Dr. Christian Freksa Prof. Dr. Dagmar Borchers University of Bremen 14 Foundations of Higher Cognition With Applications to the Trolley Problem in Autonomous Vehicles With several accidents caused by semi- Building upon a previous cognitive system, autonomous vehicles in the US, artificial enabled to understand and picture spatial, intelligence may once again become subject temporal, and also other similar relations to public debate, and we want to ensure that given in a quasi-natural language format, these powerful systems, as we increasingly my project goes one step further. I propose trust them with our lives, will act ethically in to implement a simple ethical coordinate a human sense. Asimov's robot laws, e.g., system, at the boundary between