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Community feedback requested: the Neo object model
by INCF June 16, 2022

June 16, 2022

*Call for community feedback on the Neo object model for electrophysiology and optophysiology data - open until August 14, 2022* INCF is taking a leading role in endorsing and promoting standards and best practices (SBPs) for global neuroscience <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12021-020-09509-0>, as part of our mission to promote data reuse and reproducibility in brain research. SBP’s are nominated by the community and reviewed by the INCF SBP Committee according to our criteria <https://incf.org/incf-standards-review-criteria-v20> for a FAIR community standard. If they meet our criteria, we put them up for 60 days of community review to gauge the level of user support and to identify possibilities for improvement and potential weaknesses. For the next 60 days (Closing date: August 14, 2022), we are seeking community feedback on whether we should endorse the Neo object model <https://www.incf.org/sbp/neo> as a standard. Neo <https://www.incf.org/sbp/neo> is an object model for handling electrophysiology data in multiple formats. It is suitable for representing data acquired from electroencephalographic, intracellular, or extracellular recordings, or generated from simulations. Neo has been implemented as a Python package for working with electrophysiology data, together with support for reading a wide range of neurophysiology file formats (including Spike2, NeuroExplorer, AlphaOmega, Axon, Blackrock, Plexon, Tdt, Igor Pro), and support for writing to a subset of these formats plus non-proprietary formats including Kwik and HDF5. Should Neo be endorsed as a standard? Comments open until Aug 14: f1000research.com/documents/11-658 Read more about Neo: Project page <https://neuralensemble.org/neo/> Documentation <https://neo.readthedocs.io/en/stable/> Github <https://github.com/NeuralEnsemble/python-neo> Paper <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fninf.2014.00010/full>

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Last Call: Abstract submission for the Bernstein Conference
by Bernstein Communication June 14, 2022

June 14, 2022

**Apologies for cross-posting** Dear colleagues, The deadline to submit abstracts to be considered as contributed talks at the Bernstein Conference is tomorrow, June 15. Abstract drafts created until tomorrow can be finalized until Sunday, June 19. Submit your abstract here: https://bit.ly/BC_submission Each year the Bernstein Network invites the international computational neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. It has established itself as one of the most renown conferences worldwide in this field, attracting students, postdocs and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries. In 2022, the Bernstein Conference will take place as in-person meeting again in Berlin. Talks of the Main Conference are going to be livestreamed, given speakers consent. Find more information at https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/ ____ IMPORTANT DATES * Bernstein Conference: September 13 - 16, 2022 * Deadline for submission of abstracts to be considered for Contributed Talks: June 15, 2022 * Deadline for abstract submission: July 18, 2022 ____ ABSTRACTS We invite the computational neuroscience community to submit their abstracts: Submitted abstracts can either be considered as contributed talks or posters. All accepted abstracts will be published online and will be citable via Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). Further information can be found here: https://bit.ly/BC_submission ____ INVITED SPEAKERS Keynote Sonja Hofer (University College London, UK) Invited Talks Bing Brunton (University of Washington, USA) Christine Constantinople (New York University, USA) Carina Curto (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Liset M de la Prida (Instituto Cajal, Spain) Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College London, UK) Mehrdad Jazayeri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Gaby Maimon (The Rockefeller University, New York, USA) Andrew Saxe (University College London, UK) Henning Sprekeler (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) Carsen Stringer (Janelia Research Campus, USA) ____ CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer (Conference Chair) Christian Machens (Program Chair) Tatjana Tchumatchenko (Program Vice Chair) Moritz Helias (Workshop Chair) Anna Levina (Workshop Vice Chair) & Megan Carey, Brent Doiron, Tatiana Engel, Ann Hermundstad, Christian Leibold, Timothy O'Leary, Srdjan Ostojic, Cristina Savin, Mark van Rossum, Friedemann Zenke. ____ For any further questions, please contact: bernstein.conference(a)fz-juelich.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Volker Rieke Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr. Astrid Lambrecht, Prof. Dr. Frauke Melchior ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Neugierige sind herzlich willkommen am Sonntag, den 21. August 2022, von 10:00 bis 17:00 Uhr. Mehr unter: https://www.tagderneugier.de

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State of the Art Methods for Brain Data Analysis
by Dimitris Pinotsis June 14, 2022

June 14, 2022

State of the Art Methods for Brain Data Analysis- A workshop for computational, theoretical and cognitive neuroscientists taking place on July 6 at City— Universıty of London.versıty of London. . This hybrid workshop will discuss the state of the art methods in brain imaging and how they inform our understanding of the neural basis of behaviour and cognition. It will be of interest to computational and cognitive neuroscientists who are keen on brain imaging, computational psychiatry and network-level dynamics. Registration is free. To register, please fill in this form. For any questions, please email braindatanalysis(a)gmail.com Further details: This hybrid workshop will discuss the state of the art methods in brain imaging and how they inform our understanding of the neural basis of behaviour and cognition. It will review techniques that allow us to access large-scale brain networks, based on deep neural networks, dynamical systems and probabilistic inference. It will also provide updates about how recent developments allow us to map and modulate brain activity and understand how information processing breaks down in disease.

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PhD and postdoctoral positions at the Technical University of Munich
by Gjorgjieva, Julijana June 14, 2022

June 14, 2022

We invite applications for PhD and postdoctoral positions at the Computation in Neural Circuits group led by Prof. Julijana Gjorgjieva at the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Using mathematical and computational approaches, we study how neurons and the synaptic connections between them tune their properties during early development and young life to ensure appropriate network dynamics and behavior. Another interest relates to how adult function and behavior emerge from a diversity of mechanisms, including synaptic plasticity, sensory noise, and biophysical constraints. We address these questions at different spatial scales, from the organization of individual synaptic inputs on dendrites to large-scale networks of higher order cortex. We are especially interested in these processes during development before and shortly after birth when the brain is highly plastic, but general aspects of learning and memory, especially under naturalistic stimuli and behaviors are also of interest. We collaborate with different experimental research groups in the US, UK, Netherlands, Spain and Germany and benefit from interactions with the strong neuroscience community in Munich, including the SyNergy Cluster of Excellence. Our applications range across animals from rodent to Drosophila to reptiles and humans. Successful applicants can choose from a range of projects including theoretical model development and analytical calculations, numerical simulations, and applications to rich datasets from collaborating labs. Open topics include: - Formation and co-organization of excitatory and inhibitory synaptic inputs on dendrites, including dendritic growth, receptive field formation and alignment, and emergence of tuning. - Development of biophysical models of synaptic plasticity at the cellular and subcellular levels and investigation of their functional consequences. - Reliable top-down modulation of network dynamics during synaptic plasticity, including interactions between different information streams. - Mechanistic dissection of cortical computations driven by different cell types, especially interneurons. - Modeling network attractor states of resilience, and synaptic and homeostatic plasticity processes to rebalance network states after perturbation. Please check our website for recent publications: https://www1.ls.tum.de/compneuro/publications/ Applicants should have a strong quantitative background (in mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, or related fields) and excellent programming skills (Julia, Python, Matlab or C/C++). The positions can start at any time. For more information or an informal discussion, email me at gjorgjieva(a)tum.de<mailto:gjorgjieva@tum.de>. To apply for these positions, please email the following: 1. A curriculum vitae 2. A description of research interests, including a motivation for why you chose to apply to our group 3. A writing sample, either a paper or code 4. Contact details for 2-3 referees 5. Transcripts (if applying for a PhD position) ----------------------------------------- Julijana Gjorgjieva, PhD Associate Professor of Computational Neuroscience Technical University of Munich Maximus-von-Imhof-Forum 3 85354 Freising, Germany Research Group Leader Max Planck Institute for Brain Research Frankfurt, Germany office: +49 8161 71 2709 https://www1.ls.tum.de/compneuro

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invitation to join an open collaborative comp neuro research project
by Goodman, Daniel F M June 13, 2022

June 13, 2022

Hi everyone, We have started a new collaborative, open comp neuro research project (in the spirit of the Polymath project<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath_Project> that was a huge success in mathematics). Everyone is invited to participate, and anyone who does contribute will get to be an author. Some details below, but you can just jump straight in to the website and take a look here: https://comob-project.github.io/snn-sound-localization/ The idea is to experiment with doing science in the spirit of collaboration rather than competition. We've set up an initial research topic and some code/results, and then you choose what direction you want to take, get feedback from others and give feedback to them on their ideas. We have an infrastructure that makes all contributions appear automatically on the website. We're running a discussion group, and planning local workshops. The first one of those will be in Paris on July 8th, just before FENS. This project grew out of my Cosyne tutorial<https://neural-reckoning.github.io/cosyne-tutorial-2022/> on using machine learning methods with spiking neural networks (surrogate gradient descent). It's a relatively easy topic to get into and a lot of low hanging fruit to pick, so hopefully ideal for this approach. If you watch the tutorial video and run the notebooks, you're already at the boundary of new research. Contributing is super easy. Go to our GitHub repo, open it up and start running the code on Google Colab (one click, no local installation required). Use one of the existing notebooks to start your own, commit the changes (via pull request for the first one), and your notebook automatically appears on the website. Detailed instructions on the website<https://comob-project.github.io/snn-sound-localization/Contributing.html>. Thanks, and hope to see your contributions and discussion soon! Dan Goodman<http://neural-reckoning.org/> Tomas Fiers<https://tomasfiers.net/> Marcus Ghosh<https://neural-reckoning.org/marcus_ghosh.html> Rory Byrne<https://twitter.com/ryrobyrne>

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08 July 22 FENS satellite event: 'EBRAINS Research Infrastructure Symposium'
by Zélie Tournoud June 13, 2022

June 13, 2022

Dear everyone, Please find below the announcement of EBRAINS FENS Satellite event 'EBRAINS Research Infrastructure Symposium: addressing grand challenges in brain research'. In between sessions, it will be possible to visit the EBRAINS showroom with hands-on demonstrations of the platform co-organized by EITN. Registration is free but mandatory to attend, see information below. Have an excellent day, *Zélie Tournoud*/ EITN Communication manager/ *European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN)* UMR 9197 –*NeuroPSI*(Institut des Neurosciences Paris-Saclay) CNRS – Université Paris-Saclay Centre CEA Paris-Saclay Bâtiment 151 91400 Saclay https://www.eitn.org <https://www.eitn.org/> _____ EBRAINS is organising a satellite event at the FENS Forum 2022 on 8 July from 8:30 – 17:30 CEST. The EBRAINS FENS satellite event, 'EBRAINS Research Infrastructure Symposium: addressing grand challenges in brain research', aims to bring together experimental, clinical and computational neuroscientists. The programme is structured to highlight the bridges between basic and clinical neuroscience and computational neuroscience. It will be structured therefore around four sessions on why, what, how and where to integrate multi-resolution and multi-scale data for neuroscience research. The seminar will be held on July, 8 at INSPE, rue Molitor in Paris (https://www.inspe-paris.fr/visite-virtuelle) Programme: • 08:30 Get-together: Coffee and mingling • 09:00 INTRODUCTION • 09:20 SESSION 1: What are the grand challenges in basic and human neuroscience that currently hamper reproducible the integrating multiscale, multilevel data in a new data infrastructure with tools allowing researchers to use these data. • 10:30 Coffee & posters, EBRAINS showroom • 11:00 SESSION 2: The solutions implemented in EBRAINS Research Infrastructure • 12:30 LUNCH & posters, EBRAINS showroom • 13:30 SESSION 3: Success stories from experimentalists, clinicians, modelers: neuroscience research examples empowered by EBRAINS • 15:15 Coffee & posters, EBRAINS showroom • 16:00 SESSION 4: Perspectives and future • 17:00 – 18:00 ROUND TABLE and summary Registration: Registration is free but mandatory. Register here: https://ebrains.eu/fens-satellite-event/

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“TEX2022: Bringing together Predictive Processes and Statistical Learning” Abstract submission deadline extended
by Yamil Vidal June 13, 2022

June 13, 2022

Dear all, The abstract submission deadline for “TEX2022: Bringing together Predictive Processes and Statistical Learning” has been extended to the 19th of June!! We welcome the submission of abstracts presenting work in the fields of Predictive Processes and Statistical Learning. Work at the interception of these two fields will be particularly appreciated. The results of the evaluation procedure will be announced on the 27th of June. All presentations will be done in person. Presenters of accepted abstracts will be required to register to the event no later than 10th of July. As the event is limited to 100 attendees, we recommend to register early in order to secure a spot. Invited Speakers: - Maria Chait - Lori Holt - Floris de Lange - Clare Press - Lucia Melloni - Ram Frost - Nicola Molinaro - Caspar Schwiedrzik Scientific Committee: - Alejandro Blenkmann - Louisa Bogaerts - Fabienne Chetail - Abhishek Banerjee - Emma Holmes - Dezső Németh You can find more information at the event’s website: https://indico.sissa.it/e/TEX2022 If you are active on Twitter, please consider retweeting the event’s announcement: https://twitter.com/CrepaldiLab/status/1536292945275629568 We look forward to welcoming you to Trieste this summer! With best regards, Yamil Vidal and Davide Crepaldi Dr. Yamil Vidal Predictive Brain Lab Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging - Donders Institute Nijmegen the Netherlands

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Open PhD position in mathematical/computational modeling of endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic plasticity
by Hugues Berry June 10, 2022

June 10, 2022

Dear colleagues, A PhD position is open in my team at Inria Lyon, France on the modelling of endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic plasticity and its implication in fast learning. The research is a collaboration with the Venance Lab, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Biology, Collège de France, Paris. We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a background in mathematical modelling, dynamical systems, computational neuroscience or computational systems biology and a solid appetite for interactions with experimental neuroscience data. The starting date must be between September and November 2022. More information can be found here: http://www.inrialpes.fr/Berry/Images/PhD_Proposal_2022.pdf Contact me directly for applications. Best regards, Hugues BERRY ------------------------ Deputy scientific director of Inria for digital health and biology Inria Batiment CEI-2 56 Blvd Niels Bohr CS 52132 69603 Villeurbanne cedex France Tel. (Office): +33 (0)4 72 43 75 01 Tel. (Mobile): + 33 (0)6 70 77 63 39 www.inrialpes.fr/Berry hugues.berry(a)inria.fr

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FENS satellite symposium "Understanding Neural Circuit Evolution" (Jul 7-8, 2022, in Paris and online)
by von Behren, Christina June 10, 2022

June 10, 2022

Dear all, We are happy to announce our FENS satellite symposium "Understanding Neural Circuit Evolution" which will be taking place July 7-8, 2022, in Paris and online. Registration for attending in person or remotely is open until June 23, 2022. The FENS satellite symposium "Understanding Neural Circuit Evolution" will present exciting lines of research into neural circuit evolution from paleobiology to computational neuroscience and to the molecular and genetic generation of neuro-behavioral diversity. Organized by the German Research Foundation Priority Program "Evolutionary Optimization of Neuronal Processing"<https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/618311.html>, the symposium is designed to make the full spectrum of progress in neural circuit evolution accessible to a wide neuroscience audience. We aim to build bridges between computational, experimental, and paleobiological research approaches, and to foster integrative studies of neural circuit evolution. On July 7 the event starts with an online poster session. On July 8 there are exciting talks on the program, e.g. by Mitya Chklovskii (Flatiron Institute, New York, USA), Maude Baldwin (MPI Biological Intelligence, Seewiesen, Germany), and Lucia Prieto Godino (Francis Crick Institute, London, UK). The symposium is designed as a hybrid event. Registration will be open until June 23, 2022. For further information on program and registration see https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/660201.html We are very much looking forward to meeting you in Paris (or on the internet). **************** Dr. Britta Korkowsky Coordinator Goettingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Goettingen Graduate Program in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience SPP 2205 Evolutionary Optimization of Neuronal Processing University of Goettingen Heinrich-Düker-Weg 12 37073 Göttingen Tel.: +49-551-39-26675

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Workshop on Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (CFP)
by Frédéric Jurie June 9, 2022

June 9, 2022

================================================================== Call for Papers: Workshop on Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence, as a part of the ECML/PKDD 22 program. ================================================================== Held in conjunction with ECMLPKDD (https://2022.ecmlpkdd.org/) Website: https://trustworthy-ai-22.sciencesconf.org/ Extended Abstract submission deadline: June 20, 2022 Author notification: July 13, 2022 Camera-ready submission: September 2, 2022 The site will start accepting submissions on May 1, 2022. Workshop date: September 19, 2022 (morning) Location: Grenoble (France), on site workshop with remote connections available About: This workshop will conduct a reflection on the methods and principles allowing the integration of artificial intelligence in critical products and services in a safe, reliable and secure way. Particular attention will be paid to methods for the engineering of innovative industrial products and services integrating AI, the large-scale deployment of industrial systems, as integrating AI is a crucial issue for industrial competitiveness. The scientific challenges include, as example, the construction of AI components with controlled confidence, the construction of data/knowledge to increase trustworthiness in learning or the interaction generating confidence between the user and the AI-based system. Authors are invited to submit their original work in this field and thus contribute to the reflections that will be conducted. The workshop will include oral and poster presentations and will leave a lot of room for exchange and discussion between participants. Topics: - AI based Critical Systems, - Auditability & Accountability, - Explainability and quantitative evaluation of Explainable AI methods, - Non-discrimination & Fairness, - Operational Domain Definition with AI, - Out of Distribution Detection, - Safety & Robustness, - Social Acceptance of Trustworthy AI Systems - System Monitoring, - Trustworthy AI - Trustworthy Human-Computer Interactions Program Committee: - Christine Balagué, Institut Mines Télécom, Palaiseau, France - Bertrand Braunschweig, IRT System X, Palaiseau, France (Workshop Chair) - Elisa Fromont, Univ. Rennes, IUF, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, Rennes, France - Fosca Gianotti, Information Science and Technology Institute “A. Faedo” of the National Research Council, Pisa, Italy - Frédéric Jurie, IRT System X, Palaiseau, France (Workshop Chair) - Foutse Khomh, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada - Clodéric Mars, AI Redefined, Montréal, Canada - Matthias Jakobs, TU Dortmund, Germany - Claire Pagetti, Onera, Toulouse, France - Wojciech Samek, Department of Artificial Intelligence and the Explainable AI Group at Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin, Germany - Stefan Wrobel, Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis andInformation Systems IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany

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Free registration is now open for CNS*2022 satellite tutorials: June 27--July 1
by Ankur Sinha June 8, 2022

June 8, 2022

Dear all, Apologies for the cross-posts. The INCF/OCNS Software Working Group is happy to announce that the schedule for the CNS*2022 satellite tutorials from June 27--July 1 has now been published here: https://ocns.github.io/SoftwareWG/pages/software-wg-satellite-tutorials-at-… Free registration is also now open at: https://framaforms.org/incfocns-software-wg-cns2022-satellite-tutorials-reg… To prevent spam/zoom crashing, links to zoom meetings for the tutorial sessions will be limited to registrants only. Therefore, while registration is free, it is required. The satellite tutorials feature sessions on: - Arbor - Brian2 - Introduction to containers - EBRAINS - GeNN - Keras/TensorFlow - LFPy - MOOSE - Neo + Elephant - NEST - NetPyNE - NeuroLib - NeuroML - NEURON - OSBv2 - RateML Please spread the word, and we look forward to seeing you there! -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha (He / Him / His) | https://ankursinha.in Research Fellow at the Silver Lab, University College London | http://silverlab.org/ Free/Open source community volunteer at the NeuroFedora project | https://neuro.fedoraproject.org Time zone: Europe/London

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Workshop on Bio-inspired active AI at CNS*2022 - call for contributed talks
by Thomas Nowotny June 7, 2022

June 7, 2022

Dear all, we will run a workshop on Bio-inspired active AI on Wed. 20 July 2022 at CNS*2022 in Melbourne. The details of the workshop topic are below and a preliminary list of invited talks is at http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~tn41/CNS2022_workshop/ We have time for some contributed talks and invite submissions of short titles/ abstracts. Please send your submission to me (t.nowotny(a)sussex.ac.uk) by Thursday, 30th June 2022. There is one workshop fee waiver available for an early career researcher if they are accepted for a contributed talk. Thanks & kind regards, Thomas --- CNS*2022 Workshop on Bio-inspired active AI<http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~tn41/CNS2022_workshop/> Recent advances in AI and notably in deep learning, have proven incredibly successful in creating solutions to specific complex problems (e.g. beating the best human players at Go, and driving cars through cities). But as we learn more about these approaches, their limitations are becoming more apparent in terms of high energy consumption, fragility, and lack of transferability between tasks. These limitations are particularly apparent when contrasted with naturally evolved intelligence. While no animals can play Go or drive cars, they are incredibly good at doing what they have evolved to do. For instance, ants learn how to forage effectively despite their tiny brains and minimal exploration of their world. We argue this difference comes about because natural intelligence is a property of closed-loop brain-body-environment interactions. Evolved innate behaviours in concert with specialised sensors and neural circuits extract and encode task-relevant information with maximal efficiency, aided by mechanisms of selective attention that focus learning on task-relevant features. In this workshop, we will explore how we can learn from mini-brains, and computational models to better understand intelligence and pave the pathway to building better AI. -- Prof. Thomas Nowotny Head of AI Research Group CCNR, Sussex Neuroscience Phone: +44-1273-678593 Engineering and Informatics, Fax: +44-1273-877873 University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QJ sussex.ac.uk/informatics/tnowotny<http://sussex.ac.uk/informatics/tnowotny> <../../owa/redir.aspx?C=9e11bb0e527242938402b42d9b5498ea&URL=http%3a%2f%2fsussex.ac.uk%2finformatics%2ftnowotny> I support the University of Sussex Community Pledge, as I continue to help those around me during the pandemic. Small acts of collaboration, kindness and integrity can make a big difference. www.sussex.ac.uk/community-pledge<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/community-pledge>

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Information theory workshop at CNS*2022 -- call for contributed talks
by Joseph Lizier June 7, 2022

June 7, 2022

Dear all, We are pleased to announce that the Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience<https://bit.ly/cns2022itw> will be held once again at the 31st Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2022<https://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2022-quick> conference), in Melbourne, Australia. The workshop will be held during sessions over the final two days of the main conference, July 19 and 20, 2022. Our confirmed speakers so far include the following: * Tomás̆ Bárta, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic * Demian Battaglia, Aix-Marseille University * Demi Gao, The University of Melbourne * Tatiana Kameneva, Swinburne University, Melbourne * Leonardo Novelli, Monash University, Melbourne * Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Monash University, Melbourne * Masanori Shimono, Kyoto University * ... more TBA! We would like to call for further contributions<https://bit.ly/cns2022itwcall> of talks. If you are interested in contributing a talk, please send a title and abstract to Joseph Lizier (joseph.lizier(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:joseph.lizier@sydney.edu.au>). Earlier submissions and those from female/minority speakers will be prioritised. Please pay attention to the registration for CNS*2022 (early bird deadlines and fees) as workshop registration at least is required for attendance, and see our website https://bit.ly/cns2022itw for more details. We hope you will join us there! Organising Committee: Joseph Lizier (chair) Abdullah Makkeh Justin Dauwels Michael Wibral

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Abstract submission deadline for “TEX2022: Bringing together Predictive Processes and Statistical Learning”
by Yamil Vidal June 6, 2022

June 6, 2022

Dear all, The abstract submission deadline for “TEX2022: Bringing together Predictive Processes and Statistical Learning” is this Friday (10th of June)!! We welcome the submission of abstracts presenting work in the fields of Predictive Processes and Statistical Learning. Work at the interception of these two fields will be particularly appreciated. We are glad to introduce the members of our Scientific Committee, who will evaluate the submitted abstracts: - Alejandro Blenkmann (Front Neurolab - RITMO, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo) - Louisa Bogaerts (Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University) - Fabienne Chetail (Lab Cognition Langage et Développement (LCLD), CRCN, Université Libre de Bruxelles) - Abhishek Banerjee (Adaptive Decisions Lab, Biosciences Institute, Newcastle University - https://www.adaptive-decisions.com/) - Emma Holmes (Department of Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL. Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL) - Dezső Németh (Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - https://www.memoteam.org/) The results of the evaluation procedure will be announced on the 27th of June. All presentations will be done in person. Presenters of accepted abstracts will be required to register to the event no later than 10th of July. As the event is limited to 100 attendees, we recommend registering early in order to secure a spot. You can find more information at the event’s website: https://indico.sissa.it/e/TEX2022 If you are active on Twitter, please consider retweeting the event’s announcement: https://twitter.com/CrepaldiLab/status/1512412553942601740 We look forward to welcoming you to Trieste this summer! With best regards, Yamil Vidal and Davide Crepaldi Dr. Yamil Vidal Predictive Brain Lab Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging - Donders Institute Nijmegen the Netherlands

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Reminder: Call for abstracts Bernstein Conference
by Bernstein Communication June 6, 2022

June 6, 2022

**Apologies for cross-posting** Dear colleagues, this is a gentle reminder to submit your abstract to be considered as contributed talk for the Bernstein Conference before June 15 here: https://bit.ly/BC_submission Each year the Bernstein Network invites the international computational neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. It has established itself as one of the most renown conferences worldwide in this field, attracting students, postdocs and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries. In 2022, the Bernstein Conference will take place as in-person meeting again in Berlin. Talks of the Main Conference are going to be livestreamed, given speakers consent. Find more information at https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/ ____ IMPORTANT DATES * Bernstein Conference: September 13 - 16, 2022 * Deadline for submission of abstracts to be considered for Contributed Talks: June 15, 2022 * Deadline for abstract submission: July 18, 2022 ____ ABSTRACTS We invite the computational neuroscience community to submit their abstracts: Submitted abstracts can either be considered as contributed talks or posters. All accepted abstracts will be published online and will be citable via Digital Object Identifiers (DOI). Further information can be found here: https://bit.ly/BC_submission ____ INVITED SPEAKERS Keynote Sonja Hofer (University College London, UK) Invited Talks Bing Brunton (University of Washington, USA) Christine Constantinople (New York University, USA) Carina Curto (Pennsylvania State University, USA) Liset M de la Prida (Instituto Cajal, Spain) Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College London, UK) Mehrdad Jazayeri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Gaby Maimon (The Rockefeller University, New York, USA) Andrew Saxe (University College London, UK) Henning Sprekeler (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany) Carsen Stringer (Janelia Research Campus, USA) ____ CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer (Conference Chair) Christian Machens (Program Chair) Tatjana Tchumatchenko (Program Vice Chair) Moritz Helias (Workshop Chair) Anna Levina (Workshop Vice Chair) & Megan Carey, Brent Doiron, Tatiana Engel, Ann Hermundstad, Christian Leibold, Timothy O'Leary, Srdjan Ostojic, Cristina Savin, Mark van Rossum, Friedemann Zenke. ____ For any further questions, please contact: bernstein.conference(a)fz-juelich.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Volker Rieke Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr. Astrid Lambrecht, Prof. Dr. Frauke Melchior ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Neugierige sind herzlich willkommen am Sonntag, den 21. August 2022, von 10:00 bis 17:00 Uhr. Mehr unter: https://www.tagderneugier.de

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ISRC Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired AI Autumn School
by Wong-Lin, Kongfatt June 6, 2022

June 6, 2022

The Organising Committee from Ulster University's Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC) at Magee Campus in Derry~Londonderry is very pleased to announce that the international Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired AI (ISRC-CN3) Autumn School will be held again this year. Supported by the International Brain Research Organisation (IBRO) and other sponsors, this year's Autumn School will run from 24th October to 28th October, inclusively. The topics covered in the ISRC-CN3 Autumn School include: * mathematical foundations in neuroscience * computational modelling of neural-glial systems, neuromodulators and cognition * neural data science * neurotechnology * neuromorphic computing and self-repaired intelligent machines * spiking neural networks and applications * cognitive robotics * ethics in neurotechnology and AI * entrepreneurship in neurotechnology and AI This ISRC-CN3 Autumn School is unique not only in the range and types of topics covered but it will also be delivered in an integrated way, from pedagogical to advanced levels. Registration is made highly affordable, and bursaries may be available. Academic researchers at the ISRC and invited external speakers will contribute to the delivery of this 5-day School, which will consist of lectures and labs. Attendees will have the opportunity to present and share their research work on the final day, and awards will be given to the top presenters. For more information, please visit the websites at: * https://www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/computing-engineering-and-the-built-envi… * https://www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/computing-engineering-and-the-built-envi… Application for the Autumn School is now opened and will close on 1st September. For further information, queries, or sponsorship, please contact Dr. KongFatt Wong-Lin (k.wong-lin(a)ulster.ac.uk<mailto:k.wong-lin@ulster.ac.uk>). This email and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information which is covered by legal, professional or other privilege. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager at postmaster(a)ulster.ac.uk and delete this email immediately. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Ulster University. The University's computer systems may be monitored and communications carried out on them may be recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes. Ulster University does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless expressly stated in the body of a separate attachment, the text of email is not intended to form a binding contract. Correspondence to and from the University may be subject to requests for disclosure by 3rd parties under relevant legislation. The Ulster University was founded by Royal Charter in 1984 and is registered with company number RC000726 and VAT registered number GB672390524.The primary contact address for Ulster University in Northern Ireland is Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry BT52 1SA

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WWNeuRise online seminars June-July 2022
by William Podlaski June 5, 2022

June 5, 2022

WorldWideNeuRise will host several online talks throughout June-July 2022 on various topics in systems neuroscience from the following early career researchers (titles TBA): Wednesday, 8 June, 5pm CET Vladyslava Pechuk (Oren Lab, Weizmann Institute) Cathy Chen (Grissom Lab, University of Minnesota) Wednesday, 29 June, 5pm CET Meritxell Sáez (Briscoe Lab, Francis Crick Institute; IQS Barcelona) Esther Klingler (Jabaudon Lab, University of Geneva) Wednesday, 6 July, 5pm CET Ipshita Zutshi (Buzsaki Lab, New York University) Xenia Grande (Duzel Lab, University of Magdeburg) For more information, please visit our website (https://neurise.github.io/) find us on WorldWideNeuro (https://www.world-wide.org/Neuro/WWNeuRise/) or follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/WWNeuRise) We are always searching for PhD students and postdocs to give talks in our upcoming seminars on any topic in systems neuroscience. On our website ( https://neurise.github.io/) you can find an application form to directly apply, as well as a recommendation form, where you can suggest individuals from your lab, institute, or otherwise who you think might have an interesting story to tell! We are looking forward to seeing you at our upcoming seminars! The organising committee, Alon Baram (Behrens Lab, University of Oxford) Ellen Boven (Apps Lab, University of Bristol) Christina Buetfering (Häusser Lab, University College London) Wesley Clawson (Levin Lab, Tufts University) Lucie Descamps (Kentros Lab, Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Gily Ginosar (Ulanovsky Lab, Weizmann Institute) Loreen Hertäg (Clopath Lab, Imperial College London) Joram Keijser (Sprekeler Lab, TU Berlin) Bill Podlaski (Machens Lab, Champalimaud Research)

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[JOBS] 1 Post-Doc open Positions on AI-ML to understand and contrast social media threats for teenagers
by Dimitri Ognibene June 4, 2022

June 4, 2022

[JOBS] 1 Post-Doc open Positions on AI-ML to understand and contrast social media threats for teenagers ######### Apologize for cross posting ######### Dear colleagues, University Milano-Bicocca is offering 1 postdoctoral position on machine learning and AI applied to understand and contrast social media threats for teenagers. The successful participant will be involved in the multidisciplinary project COURAGE funded by Volkswagen Foundation. The position is research starting in September 2022 Please contact us for expression of interest and preliminary information: dimitri.ognibene(a)unimib.it (PI) 1 Researcher Position Application Opens: Middle June (tbd) Application Closes: late June (tbd) Interview: 5th July h14 (CET) Starts: September 2022 Duration: 1.5 years (18 months) Salary: €2600 pm Work permit: valid permit to work in Italy from September 2022 is a strong asset Topics: Social media, NLP, machine learning, cognitive models, opinion dynamics, computer vision, reinforcement learning, graph neural network, recommender systems, network analysis Project: COURAGE https://www.upf.edu/web/courage Informal description of the job: Do social media harm teenagers and our society? Can we make them safer? Let's understand how to reshape social media algorithms together with this competitive research positions in #machinelearnig, #artificialintelliegence and #socialmedia modelling based in Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca on the project COURAGE #couragecompanion #AIforSocialGood We will use the state of the art in graph neural networks, reinforcement learning, nlp, cv, and machine learning in general to improve our understanding of social media dynamics, and help our society by supporting and teaching young people tackle hate speech and fake news in social media. Many opportunities for interdisciplinary and international research -- Dimitri Ognibene, PhD Associate Professor at Università Milano-Bicocca Honorary Lecturer of Computer science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Essex http://sites.google.com/site/dimitriognibenehomepage/ *Skype:* dimitri.ognibene

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Postdoc position in computational systems neuroscience, Voigts Lab, Janelia
by Jakob Voigts June 1, 2022

June 1, 2022

The Voigts Lab at HHMI Janelia Research Campus is recruiting postdocs. We'll work on how neocortex builds and uses models of the world to give animals complex cognitive abilities. The lab will specifically attempt to go beyond repeated stimulus-response associations, instead using complex, naturalistic spatial behaviors in rodents to study flexible cognition. We'll be able to throw significant technology at the problem of combining sufficient measurements with complex naturalistic behavior, but more importantly we'll have to overcome the challenge of modeling, analyzing, and ultimately learning from data when there are few or no trials to average over. We will use experimental approaches, such as designing new tasks where mice make decisions based on incomplete knowledge of their environment, as well as developing new computational techniques to study circuit mechanisms in the context of unconstrained behaviours. We're part of the new Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience research area at Janelia, where there are unique resources for this type of work. We'll work closely with experimental, theoretical, methods, and machine learning researchers in and outside of Janelia to make this research program possible, collaborative, and fun. To apply, please send a cover letter, brief statement of research interests, and CV to voigtsj(a)janelia.hhmi.org Lab website: https://www.voigtslab.org

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The KiloNeurons ERC project: post-doctoral position in theoretical neuroscience
by Yoram Burak June 1, 2022

June 1, 2022

The Burak Lab at the Hebrew University is seeking to hire a postdoctoral research fellow in theoretical neuroscience. The postdoctoral fellow will take part in the ERC funded KiloNeurons project, led by Edvard Moser (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience, NTNU) and Yoram Burak (Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences and the Racah Institute of Physics). The project aims to identify how thousands of neurons in the mammalian cortex interact with each other to achieve computational and cognitive functions. The KiloNeurons project offers opportunities to work on diverse theoretical and computational questions. These involve approaches ranging from pure theoretical modelling to analysis and interpretation of large-scale neural data. Theoretical tools include methods from nonlinear dynamics, machine learning, statistical physics, and information theory. A generous budget is available for travel between Israel and Norway to facilitate close interaction with members of the Moser lab, for travel and participation in scientific meetings, and for purchase of computing equipment. We are looking for candidates with excellent demonstrated abilities in theoretical research, strong intellectual curiosity and drive, a keen interest in computational neuroscience, and an interest in relating theory to experimental data. Candidates must have an excellent research record in theoretical neuroscience, theoretical physics, mathematics, computer science, or a related field. Experience with research related to machine learning, statistical physics, nonlinear dynamics, information theory, or large-scale data analysis, as well as prior familiarity with research in computational neuroscience are advantageous. To apply: please send the following information to kiloneurons-positions(a)elsc.huji.ac.il in a single PDF file: 1. Curriculum vitae 2. List of publications 3. Brief statement of research interests 4. The names and contact details of three references Deadline: For full consideration, applications should be received by June 30, 2022. ___ Yoram Burak Associate Professor Racah Institute of Physics, and Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Goodman Brain Sciences Bldg 2102, Safra Campus, Jerusalem 91904, Israel p: +972-2-6584523 web: https://www.buraklab.me/

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CNS*2022 satellite tutorials: free online sessions: June 27--July 1
by Ankur Sinha May 31, 2022

May 31, 2022

Dear all, Apologies for the cross posts. https://ocns.github.io/SoftwareWG/pages/software-wg-satellite-tutorials-at-… The INCF/OCNS Software working group is organising 5 days of free online satellite tutorials ahead of the CNS*2022 conference. These tutorials will run from June 27--July 1 and feature sessions on: - Arbor - Brian2 - Introduction to containers - EBRAINS - GeNN - Keras/TensorFlow - LFPy - MOOSE - Neo + Elephant - NEST - NetPyNE - NeuroLib - NeuroML - NEURON - OSBv2 - RateML More information on the schedule and (free) registration will be published in the next week or so. Please do mark your calendars and spread to word to your colleagues, students, and anyone else who these may interest. For more information on the INCF/OCNS Software working group and how you can join our community, please visit our website: https://ocns.github.io/SoftwareWG/ -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha (He / Him / His) | https://ankursinha.in Research Fellow at the Silver Lab, University College London | http://silverlab.org/ Free/Open source community volunteer at the NeuroFedora project | https://neuro.fedoraproject.org Time zone: Europe/London

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Job Openings: Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) (3 vacancies) at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU May 31, 2022

May 31, 2022

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University offers BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, and is now seeking outstanding applicants for the following faculty positions on tenure-track. *Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) (3 vacancies) (PR0395/21-22)* The appointees will perform high-impact research, teach and supervise students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and contribute to professional and institutional services. Collaboration with other faculty members in research and teaching is also expected. They will be encouraged to collaborate with colleagues within the Department to contribute to two special thematic applications including (a) health informatics and (b) security and privacy-aware computing, and to pursue new strategic research initiatives under the Department/Faculty/University. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high quality research in areas including but not limited to: Internet of things, Cyber-security, High-performance computing, Big data analytics, Art technologies and Financial technologies. Applicants should also show strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in computer science and/or information systems, possess track record of innovative research and high-impact publications, and be able to bid for and pursue externally-funded research programmes. Initial appointment will be offered on a fixed-term contract of three years. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement. For enquiries, please contact Professor Jianliang Xu, Head of Department (email: xujl(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk) More information about the Department can be found at https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. *Rank and salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.* *Application Procedure:* Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) with samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications/works. They should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with *PR *number (stated above) quoted on the letters, to the Human Resources Office (Email: recruit(a)hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those who are not invited for interview 4 months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will be disposed of after completion of the recruitment exercise. Details of the University’s Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://hro.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the posts advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions applicable at the time of offer. *Closing date: Shortlisting will start immediately until the position is filled.* *URL: *https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=743

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The Canadian Computational Neuroscience Spotlight is one week away!
by Scott Rich May 30, 2022

May 30, 2022

Dear all, The third edition of the Canadian Computational Neuroscience Spotlight (CCNS) is just one week away. Our speaker list is now finalized, and can be found at ccnsmeeting.ca. The meeting will include keynote addresses from Drs. Viktor Jirsa, Gaute Einevoll, and Cendri Hutcherson, as well as a session on Neuro-AI with talks from Drs. Richard Naud, Milad Lankarany, Blake Richards, and Wilten Nicola. Register for the meeting at https://www.crowdcast.io/e/ccnsv3/register. We will be accepting late submissions for Trainee Talks until Wednesday at noon EDT. Please submit your abstracts at https://forms.gle/Vr1BsUZxjbSn1aFG7 for consideration. Sincerely, Scott Rich (on behalf of the organizing committee)

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Ph.D. and postdoc positions in human visual psychophysics in Zhaoping lab
by Li Zhaoping May 27, 2022

May 27, 2022

Li Zhaoping's labs at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and University of Tuebingen have postdoc positions and Ph.D. positions available on human visual psychophysics for highly skilled and motivated individuals. The projects are towards understanding visual attentional and perceptual processes. Our research methods often include eye tracking, EEG, fMRI, TMS, and computational modeling, and hence familiarity in some of these methodologies is highly desirable. The research framework, their motivations, and example project types can be found at http://www.lizhaoping.org/zhaoping/AGZL_HumanVisual.html General information on researches in Zhaoping's lab can be found at http://www.lizhaoping.org/ For more details and to apply, please visit *https://jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/169* <https://jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/169>* for the postdoc positions* ***https://jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/170* <https://jobs.tue.mpg.de/jobs/170>* for the Ph.D positions* The positions are available immediately, applications received by *June 5th, 2022* will be preferentially considered, but later applications will still be considered until the positions are filled. The postdoc positions are for 2 years (and renewable), and the Ph.D. positions are for 3 years. Inquiries welcome. Li Zhaoping li.zhaoping(a)tuebingen.mpg.de * * * *

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PostDoc position at UCL: MEG and big data smartphone analysis
by Hauser, Tobias May 26, 2022

May 26, 2022

PostDoc position at Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry with Dr Tobias Hauser We are looking for a PostDoc to work on exciting projects analysing already collected MEG and smartphone app data. We are looking for someone with experience in data analysis with behavioural and/or electrophysiological (MEG) data. The postdoc will be working on a MEG dataset of a novel task including a big patient sample. In addition, they will have the opportunity to analyse a large dataset of behavioural and questionnaire data from a smartphone app (www.brainexplorer.net<http://www.brainexplorer.net>). We are looking for someone with computational modelling, machine learning, or advanced neuroimaging data analysis expertise. The person will be based at the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research and the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, located in Central London. If you have further questions, please contact Tobias Hauser (t.hauser(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:t.hauser@ucl.ac.uk>). To read more about the research group, please see https://devcompsy.org/ Job advert here: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?amNvZGU9MTg4NDY5NiZ2dF90ZW1w… Best Tobias -- Play smartphone games and help us understand the brain: www.brainexplorer.net<http://www.brainexplorer.net> Dr Tobias U. Hauser Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Principal Research Fellow Developmental Computational Psychiatry lab Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry & Ageing Research Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging University College London 10-12 Russell Square London WC1B 5EH +44 207 679 5264 (internal: 45264) t.hauser(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:t.hauser@ucl.ac.uk> www.tobiasuhauser.com<http://www.tobiasuhauser.com/> www.devcompsy.org<http://www.devcompsy.org/>

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