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              - on twitter: wwtns@TheoreticalWide  and on YouTube</font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">New on the VVTNS Website and YouTube Channel </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><a href="https://streaklinks.com/A9c7PbbpKY7PxB6PaAJWGD3-/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wwtns.online" style="font-size:large" target="_blank">https://www.wwtns.online</a><span style="font-size:large"> </span></div><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">Weak, weird, coordinated: functional transient oscillations </font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:initial">without a metronome</span></p></div><div style="text-align:center"><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;font-size:large;text-align:start">lecture delivered on May 6,  2026  by</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><div><span style="font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;text-align:start"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">Demian Battaglia</font></span></span></span></p><p style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;background:0px 0px;border:0px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000">CNRS, Strasbourg, France</font></span></span></span></p></div><div><br></div></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><b>Abstract: </b><span style="font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify;background-color:transparent">Neural oscillations are often proposed to support brain computation by routing information, organizing cell assemblies, or shaping coding dynamics. Yet these ideas usually assume rhythms that are strong, sustained, and regular, whereas in vivo oscillations are often weak, transient, noisy, and variable in frequency and phase. In this talk, I will argue that such “no-metronome” oscillations are not just noisy fluctuations, but coordinated complex dynamics with functional consequences. Combining analyses of neural activity recordings during actual behavior (mice and non-human-primate LFPs and human EEG) with computational modelling, I will discuss evidence that transient oscillatory events can carry task-relevant information and support flexible communication through spatiotemporally structured relationships across populations, timescales, and frequencies. Together, these results suggest that oscillatory weakness and weirdness are not just imperfections, noise to average-out, but part of the functional repertoire of neural computation.</span></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000">.</font></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><p style="text-align:left;background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><i style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b>About V<font color="#500050">VTNS</font><font color="#500050"> : </font></b></span></font></i><i style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-color:transparent"><span style="font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><font color="#000000">VVTNS  is a weekly digital seminar on Zoom targeting the theoretical neuroscience community. Launched as the</font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify"> World Wide Neuroscience Seminar (WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), its aim is to be a platform to exchange ideas among theoreticians, but not only. Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars  are 45 min long followed by a discussion and are held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.</span></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="m_8291510863757190419m_3013954570676930977m_-2730699274034682664m_7336769138461050293m_-555402346878620799m_2078987493363524274m_2385834065060985535m_-6046398934232627254m_-5827452734716430257m_7045304362081612403m_4179726376297834025m_5509523003637554824m_-436179444694456296m_-7681628874649059375m_7750187461389672445m_9094229232797745075m_-1462542758380322657m_7936782669738885075m_2132234319318737290m_3082520148829658712m_6732243839182647882m_-287356451416637581m_9199497142594163290m_3123758975499956944m_-4285543598660325014m_3406622003034096663m_-4434917348957094547m_6996923250378584115m_4339855878333796038m_2618317786332564474m_-6182961172059790657m_-6761930163476888199m_-1789248717287360482m_-7753075062499186717mt-signature"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.6em"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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