The 2nd edition of the Developmental Neural Networks Workshop was held as a part of ALIFE 2019 in Newcastle, UK on Friday, August 2nd in room NUBS 2.10 from 2-5:30pm.

Program

14:00-14:20 Introduction to Developmental Neural Networks
  Dennis G. Wilson, Julian F. Miller, and Sylvain Cussat-Blanc
14:20-15:30 Connectome Development – From Local Neuronal Links to Global Fibre Tract Brain Networks
  Roman Bauer, Marcus Kaiser
15:30-16:00 Break
   
16:00-16:20 Normalisation of Weights and Firing Rates in Spiking Neural Networks with Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity
  Kasia Kozdon, Peter Bentley
16:20-16:40 Evolving an artificial brain to solve multiple problems (slides)
  Julian Miller
16:40-17:00 Learning to Talk in a Gesture-Rich World: Application in Cognitive Robotics
  Gabriella Pizzuto
17:00-17:30 Panel discussions