Summer school programme
“Bayesian Statistical Analyses for the Human, Social and Cognitive Sciences”.
Summer school directors: Valentina Moro & Michele Scandola
Day 1 (Monday) 3 June
| Time | Topic | Teacher(s) |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Registration | |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Welcome greetings | Prof. Valentina Moro |
| 9:45 – 11:00 | Let’s go Bayesian! | Daniele Romano |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15 – 13:00 | Introduction to the Bayesian logic for statistical analysis | Marco Tullio Liuzza |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | The brms package | Marco Tullio Liuzza |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 18:00 | Hands-on Workshop | Michele Scandola – Marco Tullio Liuzza – Daniele Romano |
Day 2 (Tuesday) 4 June
| Time | Topic | Teacher(s) |
| 9:00 – 10:30 | ‘Bayesian updating in the brain: analytical approaches in behavioural designs. An implementation example from ‘Dynamics of attentional selection under conflict: toward a rational Bayesian account.’, Yu, Dayan & Cohen’. | Rosalyn Moran |
| 10:30 – 10:40 | Coffee break | |
| 10:40 – 11:30 | An introduction to Variational Bayes for Complex Models & Gradient Descent, Model fitting in Nonlinear Settings | Rosalyn Moran |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Predictive Codes in the Brain & Emergence from Variational Bayes | Rosalyn Moran |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break + Poster Session | |
| 19:30 | Social Dinner |
Day 3 (Wednesday) 5 June
| Time | Topic | Teacher(s) |
| 9:00 – 11:00 | Basic Bayesian ideas and model comparison | Richard Morey |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:20 – 13:00 | Bayesian analysis using BayesFactor | Richard Morey |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break + Poster Session | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Practical BayesFactor in your analysis pipeline | Richard Morey |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 18:00 | Hands-on workshop | Richard Morey |
Day 4 (Thursday) 6 June
| Time | Topic | Teacher(s) |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | MCMC sampling | Daniele Romano |
| 11:00 – 11:00 | Writing your own Bayesian Model: JAGS and STAN (first part) | Michele Scandola |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:20 – 13:00 | Writing your own Bayesian Model: JAGS and STAN (second part) | Michele Scandola |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Hands-on Workshop | Michele Scandola – Marco Tullio Liuzza – Daniele Romano |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 17:00 | Writing your own Bayesian Model: JAGS and STAN (third part) | Michele Scandola |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Hands-on Workshop | Michele Scandola – Marco Tullio Liuzza – Daniele Romano |
Day 5 (Friday) 7 June
| Time | Topic | Teacher(s) |
| 9:00 – 11:00 | Dynamic Causal Modelling: an introduction (first part) | Karl J. Friston |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Coffee break | |
| 11:20 – 13:00 | Dynamic Causal Modelling: Bayesian Fusion (second part) | Karl J. Friston |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch break + Poster Session | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | The Bayesian Brain: Self-evidencing (third part) | Karl J. Friston |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 15:30 – 18:00 | The Bayesian Brain: Active Inference | Karl J. Friston |