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One group member presented a Poster!

One flash talk was presented!

Read the interview: Berner Forscher wollen einen Deal zwischen Mensch und Maschine ( PDF )
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"A Neuronal Least-action Principle For Real-time Learning In Cortical Circuits" - See Publication and Digest

Arno Granier with "Building models of the cortex from empirical gifts: theoreticians and experimentalists celebrating together"
and Julian Göltz with "Twinkle twinkle little neuron"
delivered Christmas-themed presentations to spread the festive spirit!

"DreamOn: a data augmentation strategy to narrow the robustness gap between expert radiologists and deep learning classifiers" - See Publication

Walter Senn said a few words about the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics (9:17 - 10:18)

"Unsigned temporal difference errors in cortical L5 dendrites during learning" - See Publication

"The conductor model of consciousness, our neuromorphic twins, and the human-AI deal"
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"Hierarchy of prediction errors shapes the learning of context-dependent sensory representations"
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Katharina Wilmes presented the talk "Uncertainty-modulation of plasticity"

Walter Senn presented the keynote "Dendritic computations and deep learning in the brain"

Walter Senn shares insights from his work on AI to discuss "Marjorie Prime", a play depicting the recreation of a loved one as an AI.
Read the full interview.

"Confidence and second-order errors in cortical circuits"
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Federico Benitez presented "Order from chaos: Interplay of development and learning in recurrent networks of structured neurons" (Poster)

Matthias Tsai presented "Hierarchy of prediction errors shapes context-dependent sensory representations" (Poster)

Special symposium on Theoretical Neuroscience and Neuromorphic Computation dedicated to our generous benefactor Manfred Stärk and his foundation.

"Conductance-based dendrites perform Bayes-optimal cue integration" - See Publication

"Learning efficient backprojections across cortical hierarchies in real time" - See Publication

Katharina Wilmes presented the Poster "Confidence estimation and second-order errors in cortical circuits" and the Talk "Neural mechanisms underlying predictive processing in uncertainty"

Walter Senn presented "Sleep beyond memory replay: how creativity and sleep-dream-reality discrimination emerge" (Talk)

"How Adversarial REM Dreams May Facilitate Creativity, and Why We Become Aware of Them" - See Publication

Walter Senn presented "Real-time error-based processing in cortical circuits" (Talk)

"Prospective and retrospective coding in cortical neurons" - See Publication

> Ben von Hünerbein presented "Order from chaos: Interplay of development and learning in recurrent networks of structured neurons" (Flash Poster Talk)
> Matthias Tsai presented "Hierarchy of prediction errors shapes context-dependent sensory representations" (Poster)

Luc Lerch presented "DreamOn: Enhancing Deep Learning in Medical Imaging with REM-Dream-Inspired Data Augmentation" (Poster) - Abstract

Katharina Wilmes presented "Uncertainty-weighted prediction errors (UPEs) in cortical microcircuits" (Poster)

> Walter Senn presented "Dendritic integration of prediction errors in deep cortical networks" (Talk)
> Arno Granier "Confidence modulation of apical dendrites in cortical circuits" (Poster)

- Ismael Jaras: "Learning efficient backprojections in spike and rate-based neuronal microcircuits" (Poster)

"Increased perceptual reliability reduces membrane potential variability in cortical neurons" - See Publication

"Order from chaos: Interplay of development and learning in recurrent networks of structured neurons" - See Publication

Five group members presented a Poster!
- Ben von Hünerbein: "Order from chaos: Interplay of development and learning in recurrent networks of structured neurons"
- Laura Kriener: "Weight transport through spike timing for robust local gradients"
and Katharina Wilmes co-organised the workshop "The predictive brain: from algorithms to mechanisms"

"An integrative, multiscale view on consciousness theories" - See Publication

The project involves 59 partner institutions from 16 European countries and officially starts in January 2024. As partners, our group together with NeuroTMA were granted €1.2 million.