EPOS Summer School: the Predictive Brain

Tutorial for PhD students followed by a workshop for PhD students and staff

Conference

Overturning the classical notion of perception as a largely bottom-up process, the idea that our brain is a prediction machine, continually trying to predict what is ‘out there’ based on past experience, is quickly growing in stature and influence.

Participants of this year’s EPOS summer school will be informed about the latest developments in this rapidly growing research field and currently outstanding questions, such as: How are predictions precisely implemented in the brain? What is the role of attention in the predictive processing machinery? Is the brain no more than a prediction machine? It will consist of one and half day of tutorials (for PhD students only; 3-4 June) followed by a workshop with presentations by national and international faculty, that are at the forefront of the field of predictive processing (open to the wider scientific community; 4-5 June). For more details, see: http://predictive-coding.vucogpsy.nl/

 

Confirmed contributors: Chris Summerfield, Anil Seth, Floris de Lange, Janneke Jehee, Jill O’Reilly, Catherine Wacogne, Istvan Winkler, Dirk Heslenfeld, Peter Kok, Karsten Rauss, Moshe Bar, Martijn Meeter, and Maarten Marsman.

 

Published by  Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC)