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<div><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Dear colleagues,</span><br
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">June 27-July 1 2016 will see the
third Model-Based Neuroscience Summer School, hosted at the
University of Amsterdam.
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The summer school will provide
students with hands-on experience in both cognitive modeling
using diffusion and accumulator models and simple neuroscience
methods. The program includes a series of lectures on
model-based decision neuroscience in both humans and non-human
primates from experts including Michael Shadlen, Gordon Logan,
Andrew Heathcote, Uta Noppeney, Brandon Turner, Jane Neumann,
and Birte Forstmann.
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<b style="font-size: 12.8px;">The summer school is aimed at PhD
students and early postdocs who wish to combine cognitive
modeling with experimental and theoretical neuroscience
research. Students should be familiar with general programming
concepts and state in their application which programming
languages and software packages they typically use. </b><br
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The summer school will be
co-located at the University of Amsterdam with a one-day
symposium on model-based neuroscience of mind wandering, to be
held on July 2 2016. The symposium will involve a series of
lectures from experts in the scientific study of mind wandering
with a focus on model-based neuroscience approaches. The
symposium will provide a unique opportunity to see how the
concepts introduced in the summer school can provide insight on
an important research topic. </span><br style="font-size:
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<b style="font-size: 12.8px;">Application and registration:</b><br
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The registration fee for the
summer school is 500 euro. The registration fee for combined
attendance at the summer school and the one-day mind wandering
symposium is 600 euro. We ask that students make their own
housing arrangements. Space is limited, therefore we ask that
you provide a statement of interest. We will select students
based on the relevance of the summer school to their research.
The application deadline is 22 April 2016. </span><br
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More information about the
summer school including teachers, preliminary program and
application can be found at<small> </small></span><font
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br style="font-size:
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</font> <span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We look forward to
welcoming you in Amsterdam!
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Organization:
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jane Neumann, University Medical
Center Leipzig and MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences</span><br
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Leendert van Maanen, University
of Amsterdam
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Birte Forstmann, University of
Amsterdam</span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Guy Hawkins, University of
Amsterdam </span><br style="font-size: 12.8px;">
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Andrew Heathcote, University of
Tasmania </span><br>
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