Thursday, September 10, 2015
Time | Event | |
09:30 - 10:00 | Welcome around a coffee | |
10:00 - 10:10 | Introduction - Stanislas Dehaene | |
10:10 - 12:50 | Models of probabilistic inference - Chair: Wolfgang Maass | |
10:10 - 10:50 | On the adaptive fitness of the bayesian brain - Jean Daunizeau (ICM, Paris, France) | |
10:50 - 11:30 | Circular inference in Schizophrenia - Sophie Denève (ENS, Paris, France) | |
11:30 - 12:10 | Learning-based cross-modal suppression of ongoing activity in primary cortical areas and the descriptive power of sampling based models - Jozsef Fiser (CEU, Budapest, Hungary) | |
12:10 - 12:50 | Sampling-based probabilistic inference through neural and synaptic dynamics - Robert Legenstein (Graz University, Austria) | |
12:50 - 14:30 | Lunch | |
14:30 - 18:00 | Experimental data on probabilistic inference - Chair: Alain Destexhe | |
14:30 - 15:10 | Brainstem modulation of cortical inference processes - Tobias Donner (Univ. Medical Center Hamburg, Germany) | |
15:10 - 15:50 | A computational analysis of the Bayesian brain - Antonio Kolossa (Univ. Braunschweig, Germany) | |
15:50 - 16:15 | Teasers - Posters | |
16:15 - 16:40 | Coffee break | |
16:40 - 17:20 | Interplay of synaptic plasticity and probabilistic theories - Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL, Switzerland) | |
17:20 - 18:00 | A rational sense of confidence during probabilistic inference in the human brain - Florent Meyniel (CEA, Saclay, France) | |
18:00 - 19:00 | Posters | |
20:00 - 22:00 | Speakers' Dinner |
Friday, September 11, 2015
Time | Event | |
09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome around a coffee | |
09:30 - 12:10 | Critical data to arbitrate between models - Chair: Florent Meyniel | |
09:30 - 10:10 | Empirical support for predictive coding in sensory circuits? - Floris de Lange (Donders Institute, the Netherlands) | |
10:10 - 10:50 | Probabilistic inference and human executive control - Etienne Koechlin (ENS, Paris, France) | |
10:50 - 11:30 | Bayesian accounts of the central tendency of judgment - Pascal Mamassian (CNRS, ENS, France) | |
11:30 - 12:10 | Hierarchical predictive coding and adaptive gain control - Christopher Summerfield (Univ. Oxford, UK) | |
12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
13:30 - 15:30 | Critical gaps in the models - Chair: Stanislas Dehaene | |
13:30 - 14:10 | Sampling-based representation of uncertainty: time is of essence - Mate Lengyel (Univ. Cambridge, UK) | |
14:10 - 14:50 | Gaps between the observed stochasticity of neural systems and probabilistic inference models - Wolfgang Maass (Graz University, Austria) | |
14:50 - 15:30 | Joining the dots in theoretical neurobiology - Karl Friston (UCL, UK) |