Predictive coding, AI, and beyond: What computational neuroscience can tell us about changing our minds

Join RSM for this educative event to gain an insight into the fascinating life of Professor Karl Friston, a theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). These contributions were motivated by schizophrenia research and theoretical studies of value-learning – formulated as the dysconnection hypothesis of schizophrenia.

Mathematical contributions include variational Laplacian procedures and generalised filtering for hierarchical Bayesian model inversion. Friston currently works on models of functional integration in the human brain and the principles that underlie neuronal interactions. 

Benefits of attending: 

Appreciate how this relates to hypnotic phenomena and medicine in future.

Understand the neurocognitive basis and effects of beliefs, expectations, suggestions, functional symptoms,  placebo and virtual reality.

Understand how information can change experience and the body through effects on brain function. 

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