Publications by authors named "Philipp Wicke"

We are moving towards a future where Artificial Intelligence (AI) based agents make many decisions on behalf of humans. From healthcare decision-making to social media censoring, these agents face problems, and make decisions with ethical and societal implications. Ethical behaviour is a critical characteristic that we would like in a human-centric AI.

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Acting, stand-up and dancing are creative, embodied performances that nonetheless follow a script. Unless experimental or improvised, the performers draw their movements from much the same stock of embodied schemas. A slavish following of the script leaves no room for creativity, but active interpretation of the script does.

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Doctors and nurses in these weeks and months are busy in the trenches, fighting against a new invisible enemy: Covid-19. Cities are locked down and civilians are besieged in their own homes, to prevent the spreading of the virus. War-related terminology is commonly used to frame the discourse around epidemics and diseases.

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An increasingly large body of converging evidence supports the idea that the semantic system is distributed across brain areas and that the information encoded therein is multimodal. Within this framework, feature norms are typically used to operationalize the various parts of meaning that contribute to define the distributed nature of conceptual representations. However, such features are typically collected as verbal strings, elicited from participants in experimental settings.

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