Presentations

These are formal presentations that I or my co-authors have given at conferences, symposia, and workshops. I include co-author information when a presentation is directly based on a collaboration. I also mark the specific format (keynote, talk, or poster). The list is ordered by year and by authors.

When the title is underlined, it is a link to the abstract. In some cases I provide extra links for other media (video, audio, PDF of poster or slides). All links open webpages in new windows.

Presentations for seminar series are listed separately under Seminars.

2012

• Froese, T. (2012). Don’t look back: Enaction is the future of cognitive science. Foundations of Enactive Cognitive Science, February 27-28, Windsor, UK [Keynote]
• Froese, T. (2012). Consciousness in a Mikoshi. Workshop on Artificial Body / Language / Consciousness, April 2, Osaka, Japan [Talk]
• Froese, T., Ikegami, T. & Beaton, M. (2012). Non-Human Primates Cannot Decontextualize and Objectify the Actions of their Specifics. The Ninth International Conference on the Evolution of Language (EvoLang IX), March 13-16, Kyoto, Japan [Talk]

2011

• Froese, T. (2011). Altered states of cognitive science: What can non-ordinary consciousness tell us about the origin of symbolic thought? Breaking Convention: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, April 2-3, Kent, UK [Talk]
• Froese, T. & Fuchs, T. (2011). The Extended Body: On the inter-enaction of bodily resonance, embodied communication and body memory. Workshop on Genetic, cellular, and cognitive approaches to understanding social behavior, June 7-8, Kyoto, Japan [Poster - PDF]
• Froese, T. & Fuchs, T. (2011). The Extended Body: On the inter-enaction of bodily resonance, embodied communication and body memory. Fourth EUCogII Members Conference: Embodiment – Fad or Future?, April 11 – 12, Thessaloniki, Greece [Poster - PDF]
• Froese, T. & Fuchs, T. (2011). The Extended Body: On the inter-enaction of bodily resonance, embodied communication and body memory. Leibgedaechtnis und Therapie: Eine Begegnung zwischen Phaenomenologie und Therapie, March 31 – April 2, Heidelberg, Germany [Poster - PDF]
• Froese, T., Gould, C., Ward, J. & Seth., A. K. (2011). Emotional responses and values in synesthesia: The case of color preferences. Plenary meeting of the International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE 2011), July 26-29, Kyoto, Japan [Poster - PDF]
• Froese, T., McGann, M. & Seth, A. K. (2011). Distal perception via use of distal-to-tactile sensory substitution interface does not lead to extension of body image. The 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 15), June 9-12, Kyoto, Japan [Talk]
• Froese, T., McGann, M. & Seth, A. K. (2011). Enacting the body? Use of distal-to-tactile sensory substitution interface does not lead to extension of body image. Toward a Science of Consciousness: Brain, Mind, Reality, May 3-7, Stockholm, Sweden [Talk]
• Froese, T., Suzuki, K., Wakisaka, S., Ogai, Y. & Ikegami, T. (2011). From Artificial Life to Artificial Embodiment: Using human-computer interfaces to investigate the embodied mind ‘as-it-could-be’ from the first-person perspective. Third AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy (AISB’11 Convention), April 6-7, York, UK [Talk]
• Froese, T. & Ikegami, T. (2011). A quantum theory of biological autonomy at the macro-level. Workshop on Artificial Autonomy: Twenty Years of Practice of Autonomous Systems, July 8, Paris, France [Talk]
• Froese, T., Virgo, N. & Ikegami, T. (2011). Life as a process of open-ended becoming: Analysis of a minimal model. The Eleventh European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’11), August 8-12, Paris, France [Talk -- Selected as best paper for a follow-up special issue]
• Gould, C., Froese, T., Barrett, A. & Seth, A. K. (2011). Extended case study on the phenomenology of spatial form synaesthesia. The 15th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 15), June 9-12, Kyoto, Japan [Poster]
• McGann, M., Froese, T., Bigge, W., Spiers, A. & Seth, A. K. (2011). The Use of a Distal-to-Tactile Sensory Substitution Interface Does Not Lead to Extension of Body Image. The International Conference of the European SKILLS Project, December 15-16, Montpellier, France [Poster]

2010

• Fernandez-Leon, J. & Froese, T. (2010). What is the relationship between behavioral robustness and distributed mechanisms of cognitive behavior? IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2010), July 18-23, Barcelona, Spain [Poster]
• Santos, B. A., Husbands, P. & Froese, T. (2010). Accommodating homeostatically stable dynamical regimes to cope with different environmental conditions. The Twelfth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems (Alife XII), August 19-23, Odense, Denmark [Talk]

2009

• Froese, T. (2009). Artificial Embodiment: An integrative methodology for a science of consciousness. The Fourth Ratna Ling Conference on First-Person Methodologies in the Study of Consciousness, June 11-17, Ratna Ling, California [Talk]
• Froese, T. & Di Paolo, E. A. (2009). Toward Minimally Social Behavior: Social Psychology Meets Evolutionary Robotics. 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’09), September 13-16, Budapest, Hungary [Talk]
• Froese, T. & Di Paolo, E. A. (2009). Evolutionary Robotics Meets Social Psychology. EUCogII Members’ Conference: Challenges for Artificial Cognitive Systems, October 11, Hamburg, Germany [Talk]
• Froese, T. & Spiers, A. (2009). Mind as-it-could-be: From Artificial Life to Artificial Embodiment. Workshop on Key Issues in Sensory Augmentation, March 26-27, Brighton, UK [Talk - Slides]
• Virgo, N., Egbert, M. & Froese, T. (2009). The Role of the Spatial Boundary in Autopoiesis. 10th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL’09), September 13-16, Budapest, Hungary [Talk]

2008

• Chrisley, R., Froese, T. & Spiers, A. (2008). Engineering Conceptual Change: The Enactive Torch. Royal Academy of Engineering Workshop on Engineering and Philosophy (WPE-2008), November 11, London, UK [Talk]
• Froese, T. (2008). Enactive Perception: A Hands-on Foundation. The Third Ratna Ling Conference on First-Person Methodologies in the Study of Consciousness, March 30 – April 5, Ratna Ling, California [Talk]
• Froese, T. (2008). Enactive Cognitive Science: Toward a scientific re-enchantment of the concrete. World Psychedelic Forum 2008: Rising Researchers, March 21-24, Basel, Switzerland [Talk]
• Froese, T. (2008). The Enactive Torch: A technological bridge between eidetic and empirical psychology. Members’ Meeting of Consciousness: A Transdisciplinary, Integrated Approach (COST Action BM0605), November 20, Gent, Belgium [Talk]
• Froese, T. & Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). Stability of coordination requires mutuality of interaction in a model of embodied agents. The Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB’08), July 7-12, Osaka, Japan [Talk]
• Froese, T. & Di Paolo, E. A. (2008). An enactive approach to social cognition: Detection of social contingency or stability of interaction dynamics? Fourth Six-Monthly euCognition Meeting, January 10-11, Venice, Italy [Talk - Slides -- Winner of Best Student Presentation Award]
• Froese, T. & Spiers, A. (2008). The Enactive Torch: Promoting first-person phenomenology in the study of enactive perception. Toward a Science of Consciousness (Tuscon 2008), April 8-12, Tucson, Arizona [Talk]
• Froese, T. (2008). Toward a Phenomenological Pragmatics of Enactive Perception. Test_Lab: Multi_modal, February 23, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands [Talk - Video]
• Grespan, L., Froese, T., Di Paolo, E. A., Seth, A., Spiers, A. & Bigge, W. (2008). Investigating the role of movement in the constitution of spatial perception using the Enactive Torch. 5th International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (Enactive/08), November 19-21, Pisa, Italy [Talk]

2007

• Froese, T. (2007). Machine consciousness: An enactive analysis of the state of the art. Toward a Science of Consciousness, July 23-26, Budapest, Hungary [Poster - PDF]
• Froese, T. & Spiers, A. (2007). Toward a Phenomenological Pragmatics of Enactive Perception. Fourth International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (Enactive/07), November 19-22, Grenoble, France [Talk - Audio]
• Froese, T. , Virgo, N. & Izquierdo, E. (2007). Autonomy: A review and a reappraisal. 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 2007), September 10-14, Lisbon, Portugal [Poster - PPT]

2006

• Froese, T. (2006). Beyond Information Transfer: The Emergence of Embodied Communication. 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence, July 9-14, Monte Verita, Switzerland [Poster - PDF]
• Froese, T. (2006). Constructivist Epistemology: The Role of Viability Constraints. Graduate Conference in the Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (MIND 2006), June 15-16, Brighton, UK [Poster - PDF]
• Froese, T. (2006). Design of a consensual domain: The artificial evolution of communicative behavior. Symposium on Language, Communication & Cognition, May 25-26, Brighton, UK [Talk]