The Schedule
Day 1
2021 Dec 13 (Mon)
JST: Japan standard time / GMT: Greenwich Mean Time
JST 13:00 - 15: 30
Tutorial courses on FEP (in Japanese)
Lecturer Prof. Masatoshi Yoshida
Break 15:30 - 16:00
JST 16:00 - 16:05
GMT 7:00 - 7:05
Opening remark
Hideaki Shimazaki / Masatoshi Yoshida
JST 16:05 - 16:45
GMT 7:05 - 7:45
Active inference and the emergence of sentient behaviour
Takuya Isomura
Break (15 min) JST 16:45 - 17:00 / GMT 7:45 - 8:00
JST 17:00 - 18:00
GMT 8:00- 9:00
Plenary: Zebrafish as a model animal for studying active inference
Hitoshi Okamoto
JST 18:00 - 18:40
GMT 9:00 - 9:40
The FEP, Predictive Coding, and Backpropagation in the Brain
Beren Millidge
Break (20 min) JST 18:40 - 19:00 / GMT 9:40 - 10:00
JST 19:00 - 20:00
GMT 10:00 - 11:00
Plenary: Dopamine: precision of action selection or prediction error?
Rafal Bogacz
Day 2
2021 Dec 14 (Tue)
JST 13:00 - 15: 30
Tutorial courses on FEP (in Japanese)
Lecturer Prof. Masatoshi Yoshida
Break 15:30 - 16:00
JST 15:40 - 16:20
GMT 6:40 - 7:20
Decoding reward-curiosity conflict in probabilistic bandit task
Naoki Honda
JST 16:20 - 17:00
GMT 7:20 - 8:00
When can we interpret organisms as performing Bayesian inference?
Miguel Aguilera
Break (20 min) JST 17:00 - 17:20 / GMT 8:00 - 8:20
JST 17:20 - 18:20
GMT 8:20- 9:20
Plenary: Cognitive Neurorobotics Study Using the Free Energy Principle
Jun Tani
JST 18:20 - 19:00
GMT 9:20- 10:00
Neuroscientific and computational basis of anxiety in primates: conflict decision and risk aversion
Ken-ichi Amemori
Break (20 min) JST 19:00 - 19:20 / GMT 10:00 - 10:20
JST 19:20 - 20:20
GMT 10:20- 11:20
Plenary: Active Inference from Neurobiology to Blackjack
Rosalyn Moran
JST 20:20 - 20:30
GMT 11:20- 11:30
Closing remark
Hideaki Shimazaki / Christopher Buckley