BrAInWorlds

Interdisciplinary Research Initiative on Internal World Models in Biological and Artificial Systems

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#BrAInWorlds is pleased to announce the lecture by Yael Niv @yael_niv on latent cause inference and mental health. You are cordially invited to join the Freiburg neuroscience community on December 18th at 2 PM (German time) via Zoom: Meeting-ID: 927 8790 0135, Code: YaelNiv

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In the next #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Monika Schönauer will discuss the work of Mark et al., who look at the flexibility of abstract knowledge in the Human Entorhinal Cortex, and how the brain can generalize across complex non-spatial tasks. https://t.co/mTLnEzfpfW

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We are happy to announce the next #BrAInWorlds Guest Lecture by Pieter Goltstein @xpieter in Freiburg! You are cordially invited to the Nexus Lab on Wednesday, Nov. 27, at 12:15 for an inspiring talk: Identifying the internal representation of learned visual categories in mice.

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In the next #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Harald Binder will discuss Kaufman & Azencot's work training Transformer models by Manifold learning to investigate the multidimensional analysis of time-series data, and how this can be classified and also predicted. https://t.co/V7yrF3wyv7

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This week in the #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Julia Linke will present work by Tomov and colleagues, who investigated theory-based reinforcement learning. https://t.co/PEDW8aY2U6

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We proudly present a publication which appeared from a collaboration within #BrAInWorlds between Prof. Andrew Straw (biology) and Prof. Abhinav Valada (robot learning). Much appreciation to them and their teams!
https://t.co/xSiqUATzsD

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Join us on September 10th for the #BrainWorldsJournalClub, where Volker Coenen will discuss how deep brain stimulation of the ventral tegmental area is being used to treat depression.

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This week in the #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Johannes Letzkus will present a summary of how the flexibility of defensive Internal World Models used by various scientists is influenced by neuronal mechanisms, inter-individual variability and memory generalization.

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#BrainWorlds is pleased to announce the next event in the #BrainWorldsLectureSeries on Wednesday July 17th at 12:15 in the IMBIT Nexus Lab, where Professor Cyriel Pennartz will talk about Consciousness, Predictive Processing & Multisensory Integration. https://t.co/scuPPW90Hh

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The Department of Psychology is pleased to announce that Professor Mona Garvert will give a lecture on Tuesday June 18th at 14:00 about Hippocampal-orbitofrontal interactions during decision-making. The lecture will be hosted by #BrainWorlds in the IMBIT building NEXUS Lab.

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This week in the #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Zsolt Turi will present work by Liu and colleagues, who investigated the different representations of spatial navigation in the human brain. https://t.co/5bYblPXbmu

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In the next #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Andreas Schulze-Bonhage will discuss the manuscript by Kucewicz et al., 2018 (https://t.co/y8YzvPwamj) who investigated the effects of electrical stimulation on human memory performance.

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#BrainWorlds is pleased to announce the next event in the #BrainWorldsLectureSeries on Wednesday April 17th at 12:15 via Zoom, where Professor Karl Friston will talk about The Physics of Sentience. https://t.co/wTOqDHVt6S

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Talk rescheduled - Unfortunately, due to the Deutsche Bahn train strike, Professor Penartz cannot travel to Freiburg today - @BrainWorldsFR will reschedule his talk to a later date - we will keep you posted...

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#BrainWorlds is pleased to announce the next event in the #BrainWorldsLectureSeries on Wednesday March 13th at 12:15 in the IMBIT Nexus Lab, where Professor Cyriel Pennartz will talk about Consciousness, Predictive Processing & Multisensory Integration. https://t.co/zDIK3Ts7kv

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This week in the #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Hannah Muysers will present her work on the stability and “drift” in medial prefrontal cortex representations of an olfaction-guided spatial memory task. https://t.co/OMKDgUf7xL

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Good morning Freiburg! Spring is just around the corner.

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This week in the #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Deniz Kumral will explore the issues of age-related and age-invariant Hippocampal contributions to novel spatial learning. Zheng et al. (2023) https://t.co/Tbc7qcQgrH

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This week in the #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Marlene Bartos will discuss the manuscript by Lai et al., 2023 (https://t.co/XEnz5u2T21), who show that rats can manipulate virtual objects in a virtual world by decoding their hippocampal representations with a brain-machine interface.

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This week in the #BrainWorldsJournalClub, Frank Hutter will present his work on the benefits of deep learning for Bayesian methods and Prior-Data Fitted Networks. “Transformers Can Do Bayesian Inference” https://t.co/JmOQV26qES