Professor Karl J. Friston presented on the topic of "Active Inference and Generalised Synchrony" as part of CIMTR Research Lecture Series coordinated by Professor Helen Odell-Miller, OBE, director of CIMTR. Professor Jörg Fachner, co-director of CIMTR, chaired the event organized by PhD student Filippo Pasqualitto.
Abstract: This overview of active inference offers an account of embodied exchange with the world that associates neuronal dynamics with inferring the causes of our sensations. We will first look at the fundaments of how any sentient system models its world. The ensuing self-organizing, self-evidencing behavior rests upon something called generalized synchrony. Using simulations of birdsong, I hope to illustrate how synchronization underwrites the emergence of communicative and affiliative exchange - that may be particularly prescient for musical perception. I will close by asking how one can understand the allure of music in terms of active listening - and the imperatives to minimize uncertainty that render us curious creatures.
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Key words: active inference ∙ autopoiesis ∙ cognitive ∙ dynamics ∙ free energy ∙ hermeneutics ∙ synchrony ∙ curiosity.
Speaker's Bio.
Karl Friston is a theoretical neuroscientist and authority on brain imaging. He invented statistical parametric mapping (SPM), voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and dynamic causal modelling (DCM). These contributions were motivated by schizophrenia research and theoretical studies of value-learning, formulated as the dysconnection hypothesis of schizophrenia. Mathematical contributions include variational Laplacian procedures and generalized filtering for hierarchical Bayesian model inversion. Friston currently works on models of functional integration in the human brain and the principles that underlie neuronal interactions. His main contribution to theoretical neurobiology is a free-energy principle for action and perception (active inference). Friston received the first Young Investigators Award in Human Brain Mapping (1996) and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1999). In 2000 he was President of the international Organization of Human Brain Mapping. In 2003 he was awarded the Minerva Golden Brain Award and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006. In 2008 he received a Medal, College de France and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of York in 2011. He became of Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2012, received the Weldon Memorial prize and Medal in 2013 for contributions to mathematical biology and was elected as a member of EMBO (excellence in the life sciences) in 2014 and the Academia Europaea in (2015). He was the 2016 recipient of the Charles Branch Award for unparalleled breakthroughs in Brain Research and the Glass Brain Award, a lifetime achievement award in the field of human brain mapping. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Zurich and Radboud University.
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