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Conference Program in Mérida
On-site program for the conference activities in Mérida, Mexico.
Live Broadcast – Mérida Program
The onsite sessions held in Mérida will be streamed live through the following Facebook links:BICA 2026 Live Broadcast Cinvestav Guadalajara Facebook Page
All scheduled times are shown in Mérida time (UTC−6).
08:00 – 08:50
Registration
08:50 – 09:00
Opening Ceremony
09:00 – 10:00
Keynote Address: Professor Hava Siegelmann
Computing at the Edge via Bio-inspired Lifelong Agents
10:00 – 10:20
Multimodal processing: A mechanism for uncertainty reduction
Juan Carlos Zarate Trejo
10:20 – 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:00
HyPRA: A Hybrid Predictive Reasoning Architecture for Abstract Visual Reasoning
Theo Pana
11:00 – 11:20
BICA-LaborGov: A Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture for Human-Compatible Governance of Social-Labor Risks in Digital Megacities
Olga Lebedeva
11:20 – 11:40
Learning for Survival
Omid Madani
11:40 – 12:00
Toward a Functional Architecture of Consciousness: Predictive Simulation and Viability
Isaac Rocha Torres
12:00 – 12:20
Middleware for Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures: A Literature Survey
Juan Manuel Noriega
12:20 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:00
Keynote Address: Professor Michael Arbib
A Bioculturally Evolving Cognitive Architecture linking Construction, Language, and Society
14:00 – 14:20
Using Episodic Memory to Aid Deep Reinforcement Learning Performance in Perceptually Aliased Environments
Megan Ou
14:20 – 14:40
PerceptoMotor: A Formalization of Heterogeneous Motor Primitives with Empirical Validation via Analytical, Hybrid, and Learned Instances
Emmanuel Castro Vargas
14:40 – 15:00
An Active Perception Pipeline for a Robot Cognitive Architecture
Ruturaj Dixit
15:00 – 16:00
Keynote Address: Enrique Crespo - ORACLE
From Developer to AI-Augmented Engineer
09:00 – 10:00
Keynote Address: Professor Antonio Lieto
Evaluating the cognitive plausibility (if any) of artificial systems with the Minimal Cognitive Grid
10:00 – 10:20
Thematic-role processing in motor actions modulated by visual realism: ERP evidence from drawn illustrations and realistic AI-generated images
Rubén Torres
10:20 – 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:00
Replay-Gated Cascade Consolidation: A Spiking-Network Account of Replay, Consolidation, and Serial Position Effects
Ashwajit Warwatkar
11:00 – 11:20
Bio-Anatomy Aware Representational Space Framework for Interpretable and Scalable Brain Tumor Classification
Tathagat Banerjee
11:20 – 11:40
Adaptive Attentional Thresholds and Ethics for Dynamic Task Prioritization in Multi-Agent Systems
Juan Manuel Pascual Navarro
11:40 – 12:00
Meta-DNA: A Regulatory Architecture for Adaptive Metacognitive Control in Intelligent Agents
Manuel Caro
12:00 – 12:20
Episodic Memory for Online Reinforcement Learning in a Neocortex-inspired Agent
Pulin Agrawal
12:20 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:00
Keynote Address: Professor Jan Treur
On Causality Creation Driving the World’s Development of Agency, Brain, and Mind: Conceptual and Formal Analysis
14:00 – 15:00
Campus Tour
18:00 – 20:00
Conference Dinner
09:00 – 10:00
Keynote Address: Professor Igor Pivovarov
TEVSER: how evolution of complex systems give rise to consciousness and intelligence
10:00 – 10:20
CARINA Mirror Test: A Biologically-Inspired Benchmark for Artificial Metacognition in Large Language Models
Manuel Caro
10:20 – 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:00
(AtomConcept) Bounding Meaning for Modeling the Self and the World
Mohammed Ezzat
11:00 – 11:20
Texture Feature Enhanced Sensory Module for Improved Object Recognition in a Neocortex-inspired Embodied Sensorimotor Agent (Monty)
Pulin Agrawal
11:20 – 11:40
Cognitive Models for Emotional Regulation in Artificial Agents: A Systematic Review
Mónica Fabiola Perales Tejeda
11:40 – 12:00
Architectural Integration of Large Language Models into Computational Models of Emotion: A Software Engineering Perspective
Armando Ambrosio Soto
12:00 – 12:20
MEHA: Interleaved Wake-Sleep Consolidation for Spatial Grounding in Small LLM-Based Agents
Jorge Sauri
12:20 – 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00 – 14:00
BICA Society Panel
14:00 – 14:20
Stress, Sleep Quality, and Cognitive Functioning: Balancing Academics, Employment, and Personal Life in Undergraduate Students
Guadalupe Getsemani Velázquez Díaz
14:20 – 14:40
μ-GIL: A Spatial Abstraction Learner
Michael Miller
14:40 – 15:00
Semantic Understanding and Frequency Analysis of Political Speech Sarcasm Detection based on Machine Learning
Kazim Ali
09:00 – 16:00
Special Event: Innovation & Closing
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