Goal-directed behaviour under uncertainty: The active inference framework

Date

Dec 1, 2016

Time

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker

Prof. Stefan Kiebel, Dr. Dimitrije Markovic, M. Sc. Dario Cuevas

Affiliation

TU Dresden, Professur für Neuroimaging

Series

TUD NIC Kolloquium

Language

de

Main Topic

Psychologie

Other Topics

Medizin, Informatik, Psychologie

Description

Goal-directed behaviour under uncertainty: The active inference framework We will do a didactic session about the computational framework ‘active inference’. The framework was designed to model goal-oriented behaviour, in particular when there is uncertainty at various levels. As such, the framework is suited to model cognitive control in complex (dynamic and noisy) environments and may enable us to address novel experimental questions. However, currently, active inference has only been covered in mostly technical articles, where large parts of the papers seem inaccessible to the typical experimental reader. Here, we will aim to improve the understanding of this framework by discussing a recent neuroimaging paper (Schwartenbeck et al., 2014, see below) by the Friston group in detail. In this paper, Schwartenbeck et al. showed how to use the active inference framework with a decision making task for a multi-subject model-based fMRI study. Schwartenback et.al. "The dopaminergic midbrain encodes the expected certainty about desired outcomes" Cerebral Cortex (2014) doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhu159.

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