New paper on contextual motor learning published in Nature

Review on planning in the brain accepted at Neuron

Paper on a new method to characterise neural variability accepted at NeurIPS

Review on probabilistic representations in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is published

Paper on sampling by cortical-like dynamics in Nature Neuroscience is accepted

Special issue on computational neuroscience in Current Opinion in Neurobiology is out

Paper on representational untangling in V1 accepted at eLife

Alberto Bernacchia accepts a Senior Deep Learning Researcher job at MediaTek

Jake Stroud is awarded Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust

Paper on the statistical pickpocket experiment accepted at eLife

Rodrigo Echeveste is offered Assistant Researcher position by the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina

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Commentary piece on probabilistic population codes accepted at TINS

Paper about the theory of natural gradients in deep neural networks accepted at NIPS

Paper about how nonlinear dendrites are ultimately linear accepted at Neuron

Máté Lengyel receives 6-year Wellcome Trust Investigator Award

Paper about the dynamical regime of sensory cortex accepted at Neuron

We are awarded an HFSP Programme Grant, in collaboration with the Orbán, Singer, and Golshani labs

Máté Lengyel is elected a Senior Research Fellow at Churchill College (with effect from October)

Review on predictive coding and Bayesian inference in the brain accepted at Curr Opin Neurobiol

Máté Lengyel is promoted to Professor from October, 2017

Máté Lengyel receives 5-year ERC Consolidator Grant to work on cognitive tomography

Paper paper about E-I networks for efficient inference accepted at PLoS Comput Biol

Paper about a sampling-based cortical representation of uncertainty in press at Neuron

Paper about efficient state space modularization for planning accepted at NIPS

Review about active sensing appeared in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

Cristina Savin, postdoc alumna of the lab, accepts faculty position at NYU CNS and Data Sciences Center

Joint postdoc position between the Lengyel and Wolpert groups

Paper about a new functional role of active dendrites accepted at eLife

Paper about Bayesian active sensing in eye movements accepted at eLife

Paper about model-based decision making in a spiking neural network accepted at the Journal of Neuroscience

Daniel McNamee is awarded Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust

Paper about infant looking times accepted at Developmental Psychology

Postdoc positions in the Lengyel group

5 presentations accepted at Cosyne, e.g. a talk by Yan Wu about representing context in the hippocampus

Postdoc position in the Lengyel & Wolpert groups open

Tenure-track faculty position in Computational Neuroscience/Computational Cognitive Science open

Three papers accepted at NIPS, one talk, two posters

Paper on optimal memory recall from bounded synapses published in PLoS Comput Biol

Jean-Pascal Pfister (first alumnus of the lab) receives SNF Professorship at INI (U Zurich/ETH), Zurich

Paper on optimal memory recall from bounded synapses accepted at PLoS Comput Biol

Paper on synaptic weight correlations accepted at NIPS for an oral presentation (top 1.5%)

Paper on cognitive tomography and priors for faces is published in Current Biology

Paper on assessing the importance of correlations with maximum entropy models is published on arXiv

Faculty position in Computational Neuroscience (closing date: 4 March 2013)

Record (?): paper with possibly the highest weighted average score (8) to be rejected in the history of NIPS

Máté Lengyel is promoted to Readership (= USA associate professor) from October, 2012

Gergő Orbán wins prestigious “Momentum” Young Investigator Award to start his own lab in Budapest

Three posters will be presented at COSYNE by Gergő Orbán, Cristina Savin and DJ Strouse

Applications for a postdoctoral fellowship are now invited, deadline: 30 December 2011

Applications for a fully-funded PhD Studentship are now invited, deadline: 21 October 2011

Two papers accepted at NIPS by Balázs Ujfalussy (spotlight) and Cristina Savin (poster)

Máté Lengyel receives 7-year Wellcome Trust New Investigator Award

Gergő Orbán to talk at Cosyne about neural variability and sampling in the visual cortex

Paper on statistically optimal internal models and spontaneous activity is published in Science

Paper on a normative model of short-term synaptic plasticity is accepted at Nature Neuroscience

Paper on ‘Mind reading by machine leaning’ is accepted at CogSci

Paper on dendritic oscillations and grid cells is accepted at Neuron, and features on the cover

Review on neural representations for probabilistic inference and learning appears in TICS

Applications for a post-doc position are now invited

We are soliciting abstracts for poster presentations at our NIPS 2009 workshop on ‘Normative electrophysiology’

Jean-Pascal Pfister to talk at NIPS about his paper on a normative theory of short-term synaptic plasticity

Paper on dendritic oscillations with Michiel Remme and Boris Gutkin is published in PLoS Computational Biology

Proposal for NIPS workshop on ‘Normative electrophysiology’ organized by Jean-Pascal Pfister and Máté Lengyel gets accepted

Ferenc Huszár wins a 1st prize, and a special prize for the most valuable scientific achievement at the Hungarian national competition for undergraduate research with his project on inferring mental representations in humans

Pietro Berkes (from József Fiser’s lab) to talk at Cosyne about statistically optimal inference and learning in the visual cortex