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Introductory workshop to modeling and model fitting in psychophysics and neuroscience
https://github.com/lacerbi/workshop-bristol-2019

computational-neuroscience matlab modeling optimization tutorial

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Introductory workshop to modeling and model fitting in psychophysics and neuroscience

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# Introduction to modeling and model fitting in psychophysics and neuroscience (2019)

This repository contains materials for an introductory workshop to modeling and model fitting in psychophysics and neuroscience (with a focus on optimization and maximum-likelihood fitting), part of which I presented at the Bristol Neuroscience group in May 2019. I gave slightly different versions of this tutorial at several other institutions and summer schools (see [here](http://luigiacerbi.com/tutorials/)).

- **Tutorial slides** are available [here](https://github.com/lacerbi/workshop-bristol-2019/blob/master/docs/acerbi-bristol-workshop-may2019.pdf).
- The **main script** for the tutorial is [ModelingTutorial.m](https://github.com/lacerbi/workshop-bristol-2019/blob/master/ModelingTutorial.m).

To run some of the model-fitting algorithms in the tutorial you need to download and install the following MATLAB toolboxes:
- Bayesian Adaptive Direct Search (BADS): https://github.com/lacerbi/bads
- Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo (VBMC): https://github.com/lacerbi/vbmc

For more info about my work in computational neuroscience and machine learning, follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AcerbiLuigi

**Example: Optimization of Rosenbrock's function with BADS** ![Example: Optimization of Rosenbrock's function with BADS](https://github.com/lacerbi/workshop-bristol-2019/blob/master/docs/bads-optimviz.gif "Example: Optimization of Rosenbrock's function with BADS")

For more visualizations of optimization algorithms at work, see [here](https://github.com/lacerbi/optimviz).

## License

Code and scripts in this repository are released under the terms of the [MIT License](https://github.com/lacerbi/workshop-bristol-2019/blob/master/LICENSE).