Past Meetings

28.08.2020 | Methods talk

Tilman Stephani (MPI CBS) : „Primer on Structural Equation Modeling“

17.07.2020 | Research Presentation

Vanessa Scholz (Donders Institute) : "Too much or too little? The clinical relevance of cognitive control over motivational biases in decision making"

03.07.2020 | Tools & Techniques

Richard Gast & Daniel Rose (MPI CBS) : "Dynamical Systems Approaches to Neuroscience: A Hands-On Introduction via PyRates"

19.06.2020 | Research Presentation

Sofie Valk (MPI CBS) : „Shaping Brain Structure: Genetic and Phylogenetic Axes of Macro Scale Organization of Cortical Thickness“

05.06.2020 | Guest Talk

Kate Storrs (Justus Liebig University Giessen): „Learning About the World By Learning About Images“

22.05.2020 | Research Presentation

Malte Brammerloh (MPI CBS) | "Biophysical modeling of the iron-induced MRI contrast in Substantia Nigra"

08.05.2020 | Research Presentation

Jacob Bellmund (MPI CBS) [Video, Slides]: "Deforming the metric of cognitive maps distorts memory" (Paper)

24.04.2020 | Research Presentation

Aroma Dabas (MPI CBS) [Slides]: "The computational basis of learning induced by episodic simulation"

30.02.2020 | Journal Club

Evelyn Medawar (MPI CBS), Julian D. Rolfes ( MPI KOFO) [Slides, Video-Slides]: "On the statistical mechanics of life: Schrödinger revisited" by Kate Jeffery, Robert Pollack, & Carlo Rovelli (arXiv, 2019)

21.02.2020 | Virtual Guest Talk

Payam Piray ( Princeton Neuroscience Insitute) [Video, Slides]: A common model explaining flexible decision making, grid fields and cognitive control

31.01.2020 | Guest Talk

Wolfram Barfuß ( MPI MiS)[Slides]: "The dynamics of multi-agent reinforcement learning"

17.01.2020 | Guest talk

Nico Scherf (Group Leader at Technical University of Dresden) [Slides, Video-Slides]: "Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs): A Primer"

06.12.2019 | Guest talk

Pau Aceituno ( MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences) [Slides, Video-Slides]: "Reservoir Computing in Neural Modeling"

27.09.2019 | Conference Decompression

Maria Waltmann & Simon M. Hofmann (Neurology)[Slides]: Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Conference 2019

30.08.2019 | Journal Club

Kornelius Podranski (Neurophysics)[ Slides]: Shwartz-Ziv & Tishby, "Opening the Black Box of Deep Neural Networks via Information", arXiv, 2017

16.08.2019 | Tools & Techniques

Simon M. Hofmann (Department of Neurology)[Slides]: "Deep Learning: A primer"

05.07.2019 | Journal Club

Peng Wang ( MEG & Cortical Neworks Group): Cichy et al., "Comparison of deep neural networks to spatio-temporal cortical dynamics of human visual object recognition reveals hierarchical correspondence", Scientific Reports, 2016

21.06.2019 | Journal Club

Romy Lorenz (Department of Neurophysics): Cichy & Kaiser, "Deep Neural Networks as Scientific Models", TiCS, 2019

24.05.2019 | Guest talk

Dirk Ostwald (Freie Universität Berlin, MPI for Human Development): "The neurocomputational mechanisms of human sequential decision making under uncertainty in a spatial search task"

26.04.2019 | Research presentation

Lieneke Janssen (O'BRAIN LAB): "Reliance on model-based and model-free control in obesity"

12.04.2019 | Journal Club

Aroma Dabas & Nadene Dermody presented: Gershman, "What does the free energy principle tell us about the brain?", arXiv, 2019

29.03.2019 | Tools & Techniques

Richard Gast & Thomas Knoesche [Video-Slides]: "The Free Energy Principle - A deeper mathematical dive"

15.03.2019 | Journal Club

Alessandro Braga presented [Slides]: Corlett et al., "Hallucinations and Strong Priors", TiCS, 2019

15.02.2019 | Philosophical discourse

Richard Gast (MEG and Cortical Networks Group) [Audio]: "The Free Energy Principle - A conceptual and mathematical introduction"

01.02.2019 | Research presentation

Maria Waltman (O'BRAIN LAB): "Probing Neurocognitive Flexibility in Binge Eating Disorder and Obesity Using a Reversal Learning Paradigm and Computational Modelling"