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<div class=""><span class="">Dear colleagues,<br class="">
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</span><span class="">You are invited to participate to a 2-day workshop on "Probabilities and Optimal Inference to understand the Brain" April 5-6th 2018 at the Institute of Neurosciences Timone in Marseille in the south of France. <br class="">
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The workshop will bring together experimentalists and theoreticians working in different fields of neurosciences (perception, motor control, learning and decision making and cognitive disorders) and at different levels on investigation (neuronal physiology,
oscillations in cortical activity, behavior...) but all developing models and experimental data interpretations within the Bayesian theoretical framework. <br class="">
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The main ambition of the workshop will be not only to provide a phenomenological description on the current applications on the Bayesian optimal inference theory to the neurosciences, but also to open to critical analyses on the advantages and limitations on
this type on approach. In particular all speakers will be invited to address the question "In what aspects does the Bayesian or active inference framework push forward our understanding of the brain beyond other theoretical models?"</span><span class=""></span>
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<div class=""><span class=""></span><span class="">T</span>he list of confirmed speakers is:</div>
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</span>- Dora Angelaki (Baylor College of Medicine)<br class="">
<span class="">- </span><span class="">Rafal</span> Bogacz (University of Oxford)<span class="x_Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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<div class="">- Frédéric Crevecoeur (Université Catholique de Louvain)<br class="">
- <span class="">Kelly Diederen (University of Cambridge)<br class="">
</span>- Emmanuel Daucé (INS, Marseille)<br class="">
<div class="">- <span class="">Opher Donchin (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)<br class="">
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<span class="">- Pascal Mamassian (ENS Paris)</span><br class="">
<div class="">- Laurent Perrinet (INT, Marseille)<br class="">
- <span class="">Lionel Rigoux (Max Planck Institute)<br class="">
</span>- David Thura (University of Montreal)<br class="">
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<div class=""><span class="">- Simone Vossel (Forschungszentrum Jülich & University of Cologne)</span></div>
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<div class=""><span class="">T</span>he full program is attached and also available at </div>
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<div class="">In addition we are accepting contributions such as posters, as well as a limited number of short oral presentations by young researchers of the Marseille Neuroscience community related to the workshop's topic. <br class="">
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Registration @ <a href="https://opt-infer-brain.sciencesconf.org/registration" class="">https://opt-infer-brain.sciencesconf.org/registration</a> is free but mandatory.</div>
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The organizing committee : </span>Paul Apicella, Frederic Danion, Nicole Malfait, Anna Montagnini and Laurent Perrinet</div>
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<div class="">e-mail : <a href="mailto:opt-infer-brain@sciencesconf.org" class="">opt-infer-brain@sciencesconf.org</a></div>
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<div class="">Laurent Perrinet - INT (UMR 7289)/CNRS<br class="">
<a href="http://invibe.net/LaurentPerrinet" class="">http://invibe.net/LaurentPerrinet</a>
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