Chairperson: Andreas Schierwagen

Recently there have been intensive efforts to build new computing systems based on information processing principles derived from the working of the brain, and to develop brain-inspired cognitive systems and computational models of human cognition.
Trying to put this idea into practice, however, has produced disenchantment after high initial hopes and hype. In attempts to improve this situation, some have emphasized the need for critical analysis of the basic concepts, assumptions and premises that underlie those research efforts.
The aim of this session is to bring together researchers working on conceptual and methodological basics of the cognitive and brain sciences, as well as of computer science and engineering.
We therefore welcome and encourage submissions from those fields, and we expect an exciting debate on this issue.

Topics include (but are not restricted to):
taxonomy of cognitive processes, cognitive ontologies, localization vs. distribution theories of cognitive and brain function, non-decomposability and contextuality of complex cognitive systems, reverse engineering method, concepts of cortical organization, relationship between structure, dynamics and function in neuronal circuits and assemblies, complexity measures, findings of complex system theory.