Programme
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
13.00 – 14.00 Arrival of participants, lunch & coffee in MPIB foyer
14.00 – 14.15 Welcome
Raymond J. Dolan & Ulman Lindenberger
14.15 – 15.00 Introduction of new doctoral students (since October 2023)
14.15 – 14.30 Fabio Bauer
14.30 – 14.45 Leah Holm-Mercer
14.45 – 15.00 Emma Müller-Seydlitz
15.00 – 15.30 Behavioural markers of pathological cognitive decline.
Rita Moura Alexandre
15.30 – 16.00 Insight in adults, children and machines
Anika Löwe
16.00 – 16.20 Discussion
16.20 – 16.50 Coffee break
16.50 – 17.20 Fast neural computations for neurological phenomena
Xin Zhang
17.20 – 17.50 Exploring the association of the physical environment with brain structure and
psychosis through Boruta
Moana Beyer
17.50 – 18.10 Discussion
18.15 Walk to Luise Dahlem
Königin-Luise-Strasse 40-42, 14195 Berlin (near U-Bahnhof Dahlem-Dorf)
18.45 Dinner at Luise Dahlem
Thursday, November 9, 2023
09.30 – 10.00 Mind wandering mechanisms
Cormac Dickson
10.00 – 10.30 Longitudinal assessments of neural and behavioural variability in aging
Zoya Mooraj
10.30 – 10.50 Discussion
10.50 – 11.05 Coffee break
11.05 – 11.35 When in doubt use your priors: Risk and ambiguity aversion as rational probability
weighting
Erwann Le Lannou
11.35 – 12.05 The not-so-tiny blue spot: Dopaminergic and noradrenergic modulation of memory aging
and synaptic plasticity
Agnieszka Kulesza
12.05 – 12.25 Discussion
12.25 – 12.30 Group photo
12.30 – 13.15 Lunch break
13.15 – 13.45 Fluctuations in effort-based decision-making over time
Samuel Hewitt
13.45 – 14.15 Bridging the gap: Constructing directed acyclic graphs for multilevel models
Moritz Ketzer
14.15 – 14.35 Discussion
14.35 – 15.00 Coffee break
15.00 – 16.00 Closed session of faculty (room 299)
15.00 – 18.00 Workshop sessions:
a)Thinking Bayesian Statistics (small conference room)
b) An Introduction to the Julia Programming Language | A fresh approach to scientific
computing (large conference room)
18.00 Dinner at MPIB
Friday, November 10, 2023
09.30 – 10.00 The Role of habituation in risk-taking escalation
Hadeel Haj-Ali
10.00 – 10.30 Deep learning-based prediction of environmental factors from 3d brain data
Kira Pohlmann
10.30 – 10.50 Discussion
10.50 – 11.05 Coffee break
11.05 – 11.35 Intrinsic and Instrumental value: Domain-general principles determine choice across
material, cognitive and visual domains
India Pinhorn
11.35 – 12.05 Behavioural and linguistic manifestations of context manipulation in relation to
semantic processing – from self-worth to suicide.
Jakub Onysk
12.05 – 12.25 Discussion
12.25 – 13.15 Lunch break
13.15 – 13.45 A computational model of subjective hedonic experience in health and mental illness
Anna Hall
13.45 – 14.15 Learning from disinformation
Juan Vidal-Perez
14.15 – 14.35 Discussion
14.35 – 15.00 Closing Remarks
Raymond J. Dolan & Ulman Lindenberger