CANCELLED - Decisions about decisions: Bridging between mathematical models...
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Description
As the Danish physicist Niels Bohr once said "prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future". It is often difficult to foresee the consequences of our own action. In these uncertain times is important to renew our interest in a biological understanding of how, as humans, we make choices and more importantly how we can learn from our own mistakes through introspection. This workshop will bring together scholars from UCL and the CNR in Rome together with other leading figures from other EU Countries to discuss the most recent advances in the field of decision making and metacognition, fostering future synergic collaborations.
Our workshop intends to 1) survey the most important recent advancements, as well as the open questions, at the interface between decision-making and metacognition (“decisions about decisions”); 2) introduce a new audience to successful examples of the application of mathematical theories of decision-making and metacognition in psychology and cognitive neuroscience; 3) foster a debate between mathematical modellers, cognitive scientists and neuroscientists that are active in this new interdisciplinary area of research; and 4) make concrete steps towards a unified perspective on decision-making and metacognition, which links mathematical theory to empirical evidence.
The workshop will take place at the Aula Marconi of the National Research Council (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, https://www.cnr.it/en/reach-headquarters) on the 12th and 13th of March 2020*.
This workshop is free but reservation is necessary since there are limited places. If you have to cancel your registration please let us know to m.zurita@ucl.ac.uk, so we can give that space to someone else interested.
Day 1 (March 12th) – Main workshop
1:30pm
Arrival and coffee
1:50pm
Opening remarks
Giovanni Pezzulo / Benedetto De Martino
Session
1
Decision-making, and behavioural control
2:00pm – 2:45pm
Value, uncertainty and behavioural control
Benedetto De Martino, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL (www.bdmlab.org)
2:45pm –3:30pm
Optimal embodied decision making from reinforcement
Nathan Lepora, University of Bristol (www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/people/nathan-f-lepora/index.html)
3:30pm – 4:00pm
Coffee break
4:00pm – 4:45pm
TBA
Rafael Polania (decision.ethz.ch)
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Active inference, beliefs and curiosity
Karl Friston, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/)
7:30pm
Speaker's dinner **
Day 2 (March 13th) – Main workshop
8:45am
Arrival and coffee
Session 2
Metacognition
9:15 am – 10:00am
Confidence computation from multimodal stimuli
Elisa Filevich, Humboldt-Universität (www.bccn-berlin.de/People/home/?contentId=3960)
10:00am – 10:45am
Neural mediators of changes of mind about perceptual decisions
Stephen Fleming, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL (www.metacoglab.org)
10:45am-11:15am
Coffee break
11:15am – 12:00pm
Metacognitive bias in perception of voluntary action
Lucie Charles, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL (https://sites.google.com/site/luciecharlesneuro/home)
12:00pm-12:40-pm
Students, Postdocs spotlight (4)
12:40
Concluding remarks
Giovanni, Benedetto and Steve
* Participants will need to bring an ID card or passport the day of the seminar.
** If you plan to assist to the dinner send us a confirmation to m.zurita@ucl.ac.uk for reservation purposes. Dinner expenses will be covered only for the speakers.
Organizers: Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council of Italy and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.