Dear All, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science and the Center for Cognitive Computation (CCC) invite you to the upcoming event of the Budapest Computational Neuroscience Forum<https://ccc.ceu.edu/budapest-computational-neuroscience-forum>um>. Please note that there will be two talks consecutively. Speakers: Morten L Kringelbach<https://www.psych.ox.ac.uk/team/mlk> (University of Oxford) and Gustavo Deco<https://www.upf.edu/web/cns/gustavo> (Pompeu Fabra University) Titles and abstracts: Whole-brain modelling. Cartography of eudaimonia and flourishing in the human brain In order to survive, the brain must constantly extract, predict and recognise the essential spacetime features of complex environments. This distributed computation of information relies on having a hierarchy of optimal information transfer across the whole brain at the lowest possible metabolic cost. Suboptimal brain orchestration has been linked to mental illness, yet the fundamental principles of brain orchestration over fast and slow timescales are still not well understood. I will show how significant progress has been made using whole- brain modelling of neuroimaging data using new frameworks based on stochastic thermodynamics and turbulence. A series of studies have already furthered our understanding of human flourishing using data from experiments including music, food, social interactions, meditation and psychedelics. Overall, this new evidence has given rise to a deeper understanding of experiences that can give rise to both flourishing and suffering, providing meaning and purpose to life, and may eventually help to find novel ways to rebalance the brain in neuropsychiatric disorders. The computing brain: Explaining cognition through a realistic whole-brain anatomically constrained-reservoir model The perhaps most important unsolved problem in neuroscience is how the brain survives in a complex world by performing a rich repertoire of computation on a minimal energy budget. The brain is much better at adapting to the multiplicity of stimuli and outcomes than current generations of computers, artificial neural deep learning and reservoir model architectures. Yet, at first glance the brain appears to use a fixed anatomical architecture to perform the necessary huge variety of computations. But evolution’s boldest trick is that in fact the brain’s effective connectivity is constantly being updated through neuromodulation to allow the rich repertoire of computation. Inspired by this, we created a whole-brain model using empirical neurotransmitter maps modulating the underlying local regional dynamics. This NEMO (neurotransmission modulated) whole-brain model is able to flexibly compute the full task repertoire and associated functional connectivity of the neuroimaging data from 971 healthy participants. For each individual we defined a measure of ‘brain computability’ as the fitting of the NEMO whole-brain model to all tasks performed by the individual. Importantly, brain computability correlates with both behavioural performance on individual tasks and with a general behavioural measure of intelligence. Overall, our proposed unifying NEMO framework offers a natural way to sculpt different brain dynamics in a fixed brain architecture to compute the rich repertoire of tasks required for surviving and thriving. Date and time: February 27, Friday, 10:00 am Location: CEU Budapest Site (1051 Budapest, Nádor u. 15.) room 101. Quantum Zoom Meeting ID: 944 5722 1783<https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/94457221783?pwd=57tog3a8IKMn80SucqCZKadP9GFObM.1> Passcode: 239091 Should you have any inquiries about the series, please contact Mihály Bányai<mailto:mihaly.s.banyai@gmail.com>. Please be informed that video/photo recording might take place at the event and the edited version of the video material might be published to communicate or promote CEU's activities. Please, find our Privacy Notice here<https://www.ceu.edu/privacy>cy>. Best regards, [cid:3e14a0f6-95ec-4bc7-9678-0c1f175c9400] Ildikó Varga Department Coordinator (Budapest) Department of Cognitive Science<https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/> Pronouns: she/her | vargai(a)ceu.edu | +36 1 327 3000 2941 H-1051 Budapest, Nádor street 15. FT 404 CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY Quellenstrasse 51 | A-1100 Vienna | Austria | www.ceu.edu<http://www.ceu.edu> [signature_1906114050]<https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCEU/> [signature_3665215332] <https://www.instagram.com/weareceu/> [signature_650608483] <https://www.linkedin.com/school/central-european-university/?originalSubdomain=at> [signature_3553604353] <https://www.threads.com/@weareceu> [signature_74125338] <https://bsky.app/profile/weareceu.bsky.social> ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu