Invited talks
Pragmatic communicators can overcome asymmetry by exploiting ambiguity. The Stanford Language and Cognition Lab, Stanford University, United States (2019).
Ambiguity helps: How unaligned pragmatic communicators can understand each other. Modeling Minds 2.5, Radboud University, the Netherlands (2019). (slides)
Deep analogical inference as the origin of hypotheses. Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, Radboud University, the Netherlands (2017).
Understanding understanding: A computational-level perspective. Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany (2016).
Understanding by analogy. Department of Linguistics, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany (2014).
How signals mean. Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark (2014).
Scaling models of communication. Department of Psychology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (2012)
Scaling models of communication.Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (2012)
Conference / workshop presentations
Blokpoel, M., Wabeke, T., Kwisthout, J., Haselager, P., & van Rooij, I. (2013). Framing the social brain. Presented at ANT workshop, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
van Rooij, I., Kwisthout, J., Wareham, T. & Blokpoel, M. (2013). Computational complexity analysis for cognitive scientists. Tutorial at the 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Berlin, Germany.
Blokpoel, M., Kwisthout, J., Wareham, T., Haselager, P., Toni, I. & van Rooij, I. (2012). Bayesian models and mechanisms of communication. Presented at Models and Mechanisms: Special Focus on Cognitive Science, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
van Rooij, I., Kwisthout, J., Wareham, T., Blokpoel, M., Reichman, D. & Szymanik, J. (2012). Scaling models of cognition to the real world: Complexity-theoretic tools for dealing with intractability. Workshop at the 11th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling Berlin, Germany.
Blokpoel, M. (2011). It takes two to tango: How a cognitive modeler and neuroscientist can coordinate their study of communication. Presented at the Donders Discussions 2011, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Blokpoel, M., Kwisthout, J., Wareham, T., Haselager, P., Toni, I. & van Rooij, I. (2011). The computational costs of recipient design and intention recognition in communication. Presented at the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston, MA.
Blokpoel, M., Kwisthout, J., van der Weide, T. & van Rooij, I. (2011). A computational-level explanation of the speed of goal inference. Presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (SMP), Medford, MA.
Conference / workshop posters
Blokpoel, M., Wareham, T., de Ruiter, J.P., Haselager, P., Toni, I., & van Rooij, I. (2015) Bridging the communicative gap between robots and humans, by analogy. Presented at 37th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Blokpoel, M., Wareham, T., Toni, I., Haselager, P. & van Rooij, I. (2013) The genesis of a novel communication system. Presented at 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Berlin, Germany.
M. Blokpoel, J. Kwisthout, T. van der Weide & I. van Rooij (2010, August). How Action Understanding can be Rational, Bayesian and Tractable. Presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Portland, OR.
M. Blokpoel, F. A. Grootjen & E. L. van den Broek (2008, April). Exploiting Coarse Grained Parallelism in Conceptual Data Mining. Presented at the Dutch Information Retrieval Conference (DIR2008), Maastricht.