Yukie Nagai | “Embodied predictive processing: toward a unified account of human intelligence”

Keynote speech \ Manfred Eigen lecture theatre Predictive processing has emerged as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet it often underestimates the role of the body and environment. In this talk, I introduce Embodied Predictive Processing, an extended framework that emphasizes the co-development of brain, body, and environment through active perception and action. This perspective reconceptualizes intelligence as…

Frank Winkler | “Cancer neuroscience of brain tumors”

Keynote speech \ Manfred Eigen lecture theatre Neural influences regulate cancer initiation, invasion, growth, metastasis, and therapy resistance. Those discoveries have changed the way we think about cancer, and fueled the emerging field of “Cancer Neuroscience”. In this talk I will cover our discovery of neural-like communicating cancer cell networks in primary and metastatic brain tumors (Osswald Nature 2015; Hausmann…