Description

We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers, post docs, and graduate students, led by Professor Ingar Brinck, Department of Philosophy and Cognitive Science.

Research and Approach

CogComLab brings together multidisciplinary research in philosophy, cognitive science, social robotics, ethics, developmental psychology, music education, phenomenology, cognitive modelling, and comparative psychology. The group takes a broadly situated (embodied, embedded, dynamic, ecological, 4E) approach to cognition and communication, using a variety of complementary qualitative and quantitative methods --- analytic and phenomenological philosophical methods alongside reconstructive reviews and empirical methods such as laboratory experiments, qualitative interviews, modelling, ethnography, and observational studies.

On-going Research

HUMAN-MATERIAL INTERACTION, HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION, HUMAN-HUMAN INTERACTION

• improvisation and skill in making, drawing, music, on-line communication, etc.
• motor cognition
• perceptual presence
• the brain and the conscious mind
• norms, trust, and emotion in the social context
• care and second-person ethics
• joint attention, dialogue, and learning
• cognitive modelling

Meetings

We meet Fridays, once a week, to discuss work in progress.

Partners

• Cognitive Modeling at LUCS https://www.lucs.lu.se/category/cognitive-modeling/
• WASP-HS project Etik för autonoma system och artificiell intelligens, https://wasp-hs.org/sv/projects/etik-for-autonoma-system-och-artificiell-intelligens/
• Urban Arena: Sustainable Urban Habitats, Dept. of Architecture and the Built Environment, LTH http://www.urban.lu.se/om-urban-arena/urbana-livsmiljoeer-gestaltning-och-byggd-miljoe/
• LUCS Robotics Group Lund University https://www.lucs.lu.se/lucs-robotics-group/
• WASP-HS https://wasp-hs.org/
• Division for Cognitive Semiotics, Lund University https://www.sol.lu.se/en/semiotik/
• Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris http://www.institutnicod.org/
• Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen https://cfs.ku.dk/
• Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University https://interactingminds.au.dk/
  
  

Research

What is it to be human? The CogComlab unites research on social cognition and communication within the areas of theoretical philosophy and developmental- and comparative psychology with the aim of explicating the foundations of (typically) human lifeforms.