Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU
email: ben.seymour at ndcn.ox.ac.uk
We are looking forward to start a new project 'The role of Learning in Chronic Pain' this year, generously funded by Versus Arthritis and MRC. The team includes Flavia Mancini (CBL, Cambridge), and Oxford colleagues: Tim Denison (IBME), Anushka Soni (NDOrMS), Amanda Wall (NDCN) and Katja Wiech (NDCN).
Through affiliation to the Turing Institute, we are up a special interest group looking at safe control in autonomous systems. Watch this space...
Flavia Mancini and I have just published an introduction to computational models of the pain system in Neuroimage, including perceptual (Bayesian) and motivational (Reinforcement Learning) models and how they fit together. It's open access and you can read it here.
Seymour, B., & Mancini, F. (2020). Hierarchical models of pain: Inference, information-seeking, and adaptive control. NeuroImage, 117212.
Suyi Zhang's latest paper is now published in Current Biology, with all data and code open access as usual. Read our Twitter Summary here.
Zhang, S., Yoshida, W., Mano, H., Yanagisawa, T., Mancini, F., Shibata, K., Kawato, M. and Seymour, B., 2020. Pain Control by Co-adaptive Learning in a Brain-Machine Interface. Current Biology.
The Role of Pain in Bodily Defense and Autonomy
Date: 20 – 22 January, 2020
Venue: Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), Osaka
URL and FREE registration: https://sites.google.com/view/painsymposium2019/home
Program: https://sites.google.com/view/painsymposium2019/home/program
Abstract: How does the brain generate the conscious perception of pain, and how does this help protect our bodily integrity? This interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers to discuss pain, action, and movement. Talks will range from understanding the theoretical basis of defensive systems in autonomous control, understanding the function of action and pain in health and disease.
Organisers
Ben Seymour (Cambridge, CiNet/NICT)
Nobuhiro Hagura (CiNet/NICT)
Takufumi Yanagisawa (Osaka University)
Invited Speakers
Rebeccah Slater（Oxford）
Sven Bestmann（UCL)
Victoria Chapman（Nottingham)
Gareth Hathway（Nottingham）
Markus Ploner（Munich）
Sang Wan Lee（KAIST）
Francesca Fardo（Aarhus）
Stella Koutsikou（Kent）
Abby Tabor（Bath）
Flavia Mancini（Cambridge）
Vicky Root（OXford, UCL）
Josh Johansen（RIKEN CBS）
Tatsuya Umeda（NCNP）
Masaya Hirashima（CiNet/NICT）
Tsuyoshi Ikegami（Columbia, CiNet/NICT)
Sponsors: ERATO, Versus Arthritis, IITP
Organising Institutions: NICT, CiNet, Osaka University.
Ben Seymour