Workshop on:

The Free Energy Principle
(Presented by the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging)

July 5 (Thursday) - 6 (Friday) 2012

The workshop will present the mathematical and biological constructs of the Free Energy Principle.  The first day will include an introduction to the principle, a treatment of Bayesian inference in dynamical systems and the neurobiology that could support the principle. On the second day we will focus on particular domains of neuroscience and how the principle applies, for example to motor function and attention. We will also examine how the framework can be used to understand psychopathology.
For background reading we suggest the following “rough guide”: (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2009.04.005)

Venues (images & maps below)
Thursday July 5th: 33 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG
Friday July 6th: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery,
44 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG

 

Thursday July 5th

 
10.00 - 12.00    The Free Energy Principle: an overview
                        Karl Friston

Lunch (12.00 - 13.00)

 

13.00 - 13.30   Inference using Variational Bayes 
                        Will Penny

13.40 - 14.10    Bayesian Decision Theory                            
                       Jean Daunizeau

Break (14.20 – 14.40)

 

14.40 - 15.10    Cortical Hierarchies in Inference                                               
                      Stefan Kiebel

15.20 - 15.50    A Canonical Microcircuit                                               
                      Andre Bastos

16.00 - 16.30    Precision in message passing

                      Rosalyn Moran

 

Break (16.40 – 17.00)

17.00 - 18.00    Clinic

 

Friday July 6th

 
10.00 - 10.30    Attention and Gain Control
                        Harriet Brown

10.40 - 11.10    The Anatomy of Active Inference
                        Rick Adams

11.20 - 11.50    Dopamine and Motor Sequences
                        Sven Bestmann

Break (12.00 - 12.20)

 

12.20 - 12.50    Mirror Neurons and Active Inference
                       James Kilner

13.00 - 13.30    Predictive Coding from Auditory Omission  
                        Catherine Wacongne

Lunch (13.40 – 14.40)

 

14.40 - 15.10    Translational potential for Psychiatry                                              
                      Klaas Stephan

15.20 - 15.50    Predictive Coding and Psychosis                                               
                      Paul Fletcher

16.00 - 16.30    Psychotherapy, Freud and Bayes
James Hopkins

 

 

Break (16.40 – 17.00)

17.00 - 18.00    Clinic