Programme 2021

Day 1 (Monday) 31 May

TimeTopicTeacher(s)
8:30 – 9:30Registration 
9:30 – 9:45Welcome greetingsValentina Moro
9:45 – 10:45The probabilistic mechanism of updating information: an introductionFabio Spizzichino
10:45 – 11:00Coffee break 
11:00 – 12:30Bayes Your Way Out of the Rationality ConundrumMassimiliano Badino
12:30 – 14:00Lunch break 
14:00 – 15:00Conditional independence and sufficient partitionsFabio Spizzichino
15:00 – 16:00Markov Chain Monte CarloMichele Scandola
16:00 – 16:30Coffee break 
16:30 – 18:00Bayesian statistics for Virtual Reality studies in psychology and cognitive neuroscienceMel Slater

Day 2 (Tuesday) 1 June

TimeTopicTeacher(s)
9:00 – 11:00Basic Bayesian ideas and model comparisonRichard Morey
11:00 – 11:20Coffee break 
11:20 – 13:00Bayesian analysis using BayesFactorRichard Morey
13:00 – 14:30Lunch break + Poster Session 
14:30 – 15:30Practical BayesFactor in your analysis pipelineRichard Morey
15:30 – 15:45Coffee break 
15:45 – 18:00Hands-on workshopRichard Morey

Day 3 (Wednesday) 2 June

TimeTopicTeacher(s)
9:00 – 10:00A user-friendly software to start with Bayesian Analysis. The basics of JASPDaniele Romano
10:00 – 11:00The brms package and (generalized) linear multilevel modelsMichele Scandola
Marco Tullio Liuzza
11:00 – 11:20Coffee break 
11:20 – 13:00Bayesian approaches to psychometrics using brmsMarco Tullio Liuzza
13:00 – 14:30Lunch break 
14:30 – 15:15Bayesian approaches to psychometrics using brms Marco Tullio Liuzza
15:15 – 15:30Coffee break 
15:30 – 18:00Hands-on WorkshopMarco Tullio Liuzza
Daniele Romano
Michele Scandola

Day 4 (Thursday) 3 June

TimeTopicTeacher(s)
9:00 – 11:00Writing your own Bayesian Model: JAGS and STAN (first part)Michele Scandola
11:00 – 11:20Coffee break 
11:20 – 13:00 Writing your own Bayesian Model: JAGS and STAN (second part)Michele Scandola
13:00 – 14:00Lunch break 
14:00 – 15:00Writing your own Bayesian Model: JAGS and STAN (third part) Michele Scandola
15:00 – 15:30Coffee break 
15:30 – 17:00Hands-on workshopMichele Scandola
Marco Tullio Liuzza
Daniele Romano
17:00 – 18:00 The bmscstan package: Bayesian Multilevel Single Case analysis Daniele Romano
Michele Scandola

Day 5 (Friday) 4 June

TimeTopicTeacher(s)
9:00 – 10:30Bayesian updating in the brain: analytical approaches in behavioural designs and applications to computational psychiatryRosalyn Moran
10:30 – 10:40Coffee break 
10:40 – 11:30An introduction to Model fitting in Nonlinear SettingsRosalyn Moran
11:30 – 13:00Predictive Codes in the Brain & Emergence from Variational BayesRosalyn Moran
13:00 – 14:30Lunch break 
14:30 – 15:30Dynamic Causal Modelling: an introduction (first part)Rosalyn Moran
15:00 – 15:30Coffee break 
15:30 – 18:00Dynamic Causal Modelling for EEG (second part)Rosalyn Moran

Day 6 (Saturday) 5 June

TimeTopicTeacher(s)
9:00 – 10:30Group Studies using Bayesian StatisticsRosalyn Moran
10:30 – 10:40Coffee break 
10:40 – 11:30DCM Practical IRosalyn Moran
11:30 – 13:00DCM Practical IIRosalyn Moran

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