Participants:
The PhD course is offered by the Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance in collaboration with the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen. It is a generic course which means that the course i reserved for PhD students at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at the Graduate School, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline.
Focus of the course:
Understanding how the mind, brain, and behavior interact is one of the most complex challenges in the cognitive and neural sciences. Bayesian methods offer a principled and flexible framework for addressing this challenge, allowing us to model uncertainty, make predictions, and infer underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms from a diversity of types of data. Bayesian models are uniquely suited to understanding mental processes because they naturally account for uncertainty in both human cognition and experimental data. They provide a principled and unified framework for comparing models, allowing scientific questions about brain, mind, and behavior to be formally tested.
In this course, students will learn to apply Bayesian models to questions in cognitive science and neuroscience, gaining practical experience in formalizing hypotheses about mental and neural processes and testing them against experimental data. The course is designed to be highly interactive and hands-on, providing students with opportunities to engage in group work, solve problems collaboratively, and develop practical skills that can be applied to their own research. Through a combination of lectures, exercises, and project work, students will learn how to implement and interpret Bayesian models in a variety of contexts, ranging from basic psychological processes to complex neural data integration.
Main themes:
Day 1: Intro to modelling
Day 2: Simple models
Day 3: Intermediate models
Day 4: Neural & Psychiatric applications
Day 5: Presentations
Dates:
The course is being held on 5-9 May 2025
Language:
English
Form:
A mixture of standard lecture, interactive lectures with interactive notebooks, and group work with expert support.
Location:
Copenhagen University Hospital
Hvidovre Hospital
Centre E, Auditorium 5
Kettegård Allé 30
DK-2650 Hvidovre
Please register before: 28 April 2025
Course secretary:
Susanne Steffensen, , Tel: +45 38621184, DRCMR, Centre for Functional and Diagnostic Imaging and Research, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Kettegård Allé 30, DK-2650 Hvidovre
Expected frequency
Every 3 years
Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules.
Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment.