Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to an online two-day workshop on the free energy principle and active inference, focusing on its experimental verification and biological implementation. The time is set for EU/UK and East Asia.
Please visit our website for registration (free):
https://sites.google.com/view/free-energy-workshop
Workshop title: The free energy principle of the brain: Experiments and verification
Date: 2021 Dec 13 (Mon) and 14 (Tue)
Place: Online (Registration required)
Invited Speakers and Titles:
Takuya Isomura (RIKEN CBS) Active inference and the emergence of sentient behaviour
Hitoshi Okamoto (RIKEN CBS) Zebrafish as a model animal for studying active inference
Beren Millidge (U Oxford) The FEP, Predictive Coding, and Backpropagation in the Brain
Rafal Bogacz (U Oxford) Dopamine: precision of action selection or prediction error
Naoki Honda (Hiroshima U) Decoding reward-curiosity conflict in probabilistic bandit task
Miguel Aguilera (Sussex U) When can we interpret organisms as performing Bayesian inference?
Jun Tani (OIST) Cognitive Neurorobotics Study Using the Free Energy Principle
Ken-ichi Amemori (Kyoto U) Neuroscientific and computational basis of anxiety in primates: conflict decision and risk aversion
Rosalyn Moran (King's Colledge London) Active Inference from Neurobiology to Blackjack
We are looking forward to your active participation!
Sincerely,
Hideaki
on behalf of organizers
Hideaki Shimazaki, CHAIN Hokkaido University
Masatoshi Yasuda, CHAIN Hokkaido University
Mark Miller, CHAIN Hokkaido University
Takuya Isomura, RIKEN CBS
Naoki Honda, Hiroshima U
Christopher Buckley, Sussex U
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Hideaki Shimazaki, Ph.D
Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience (CHAIN)
Hokkaido University