Connectionists: Call for Papers – CIFMA 2026

[Edoardo Datteri]

Call for Papers – CIFMA 2026


*8th International Workshop on Cognition: Interdisciplinary Foundations,
Models and Applications*
24 November 2026, Malta (Co-located with SEFM 2026)

https://cifma.github.io/

Cognition encompasses a wide range of intellectual functions and processes
such as attention, memory, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, and
language comprehension and production. Although rooted in psychology, the
study of cognition now spans a wide array of disciplines, driven by the
increasing complexity of human interaction with technological systems,
virtual environments, and intelligent machines. CIFMA 2026 (
https://cifma.github.io/) aims to provide a collaborative forum for
researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and research
institutions who are interested in the foundations and applications of
cognition. The workshop encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and concrete
collaborations between fields such as computer science, logic,
neuroscience, linguistics, cognitive robotics, philosophy, and more. The
workshop specifically promotes the use of formal methods as a unifying
approach to model and analyze cognitive systems and processes, extending
well beyond their traditional use in software engineering. Contributions to
the workshop cover the areas of education, research and technology, either
in general or with a focus on formal methods. Topics are organized in
possibly overlapping categories and include, but are not restricted to

Interdisciplinary Foundations of Cognition:
- philosophy of cognition
- human memory and memory processes
- attention
- perception, visual cognition and situated cognition
- cognitive models and architectures
- languages for cognitive science
- social cognition
- philosophy of modelling and simulation
- philosophy of human-machine interaction

Cognitive Robotics:
- autonomous knowledge acquisition
- motor babbling
- learning by imitation
- cognitive architectures for robotics
- biorobotics and biologically-inspired robotics

Logics and their application to:
- human-computer interaction
- human behaviour
- human reasoning and problem solving
- visual reasoning
- human-robot interaction
- linguistics
- risk modelling in cognition


*Keynote speaker*---
Prof. Dr. Martin V. Butz (University of Tübingen)
Title and abstract TBA


*Proceedings and Publication*---
Accepted regular and short papers will be published in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Inclusion in the LNCS volume
requires that at least one co-author registers and presents the work at the
workshop. A special issue in a relevant journal may be planned, depending
on submission quality and volume.


*Program Chairs*---
Edoardo Datteri, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Stefano Maria Nicoletti, University of Twente, The Netherlands

The full Program Committe can be found at https://cifma.github.io/


*Important dates*---
Abstract Submission deadline: 8 September 2026
Paper Submission deadline: 13 September 2026
Accept/Reject Notification: 16 October 2026
Pre-proceedings Final version due: TBA
LNCS Post-proceedings Final version due: TBA

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Edoardo Datteri
Full professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science
President of the AISC - Italian Association for the Cognitive Sciences
Coordinator of the RobotiCSS Lab - Laboratory of Robotics for the
Cognitive and Social Sciences
<https://roboticss.formazione.unimib.it/>

Latest representative publications:


   - Datteri, E. (2025). Models for Surrogative Stimulation.
*Erkenntnis*. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-025-00951-7
   - Datteri, E. (2025). Folk-Ontological Stances Towards Robots and
Psychological Human Likeness. *International Journal of Social
Robotics*, 17(2), 257–276. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-025-01225-6
   - Roselli, C., Lapomarda, L., & Datteri, E. (2025). How culture
modulates anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Interaction: A review. *Acta
Psychologica*, *255*, 104871.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2025.104871

See also https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=eGzrD6gAAAAJ&hl=ithttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Edoardo-Datteri?ev=hdr_xprf

Department of Human Sciences for Education "R. Massa", University of
Milano-Bicocca
Building U6, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milan

Vice-coordinator of the Master Degree in Education, Univ. of Milano-Bicocca

Senior Editor of BMC Psychology

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