Connectionists: REMINDER: World wide VVTNS series (6th season): Weak, weird, coordinated: functional transient oscillations | Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 11:00 am ET - Demian Battaglia, CNRS, Strasbourg, France

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You are cordially invited to the lecture

Demian Battaglia

CNRS, Strasbourg

 on the topic of

  Weak, weird, coordinated: functional transient oscillations

without a metronome


The lecture will be held on zoom on May 6, 2026 at *11:00 am ET *

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*Abstract: *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.


*About VVTNS : Launched as the World Wide  Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar
(WWTNS) in November 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in
Memoriam (April 20, 2022), 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, **held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,**  are 45-50 min long followed
by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker
and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.*


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