Programme

Day 1 (17 June) Adrien Doerig (University of Osnabrück). NeuroConnectionism. Introduction to LLMs and DNNs in Vision

Day 2 (18 June) Martin Hebart (Max Planck Institute Leipzig, Human Brain & Cognitive Sciences). Object processing in brains, AI and behaviour

Day 3 (19 June) Umut Güçlü (Radboud University). Neural Encoding, decoding & reconstruction with deep learning

Day 4 (20 June) Katharina Dobs (Justus-Liebig University Giessen). Functional specialisation in brains, AI and behaviour

Day 5 (21 June) Claire Stevenson & Micha Heilbron (University of Amsterdam). Generative language models are a window into human cognition?

Day 6 (24 June) Jesse Geerts & Tom George (Imperial College). From model free to model based reinforcement learning

Day 7 (25 June) James Whittington (Oxford University & Stanford University). and Jacob Bakermans (Oxford University) Cognitive maps: from hippocampal formation to prefrontal cortex action

Day 8 (26 June) Erin Grant (University College London, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit)

Confirmed speakers for the ABC Symposium on June 27 include: 

• Frijda lecture 2024: Matthias Bethge (prof of Computational Neuroscience & Machine Learning at Tübingen University)
• Rufin van Rullen (AI and Neuroscience, CerCo Toulouse) 
• Jean-Remi King (Computational basis of intelligence, Meta) 
• Mariya Toneva (Natural Language Processing and Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
• Gemma Roig (Goethe University Frankfurt)

• Raquel Fernández (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation,  University of Amsterdam)

More information about the ABC symposium can be found here: abcsymposium.nl