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X-WR-CALNAME:MBCT Symposium 2026: Linking Timescales of Behavior and Neural
  Activity through Recurrent Computation
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DESCRIPTION:Bringing together neuroscience and computational perspectives\,
  the 2026 MBCT symposium explores how recurrence may be a canonical neural
  mechanism for integrating past experience\, present input\, and future go
 als across multiple behavioral timescales.\n\nEvery given moment of our li
 ves is some combination of past\, present\, and future. While we occupy th
 e current moment\, we integrate sensory information from the recent past\,
  draw on relevant memories from more distant experience\, anticipate upcom
 ing events\, and make goal-directed decisions that guide our actions. \n\n
 What are the neural mechanisms underlying our brain's ability to coordinat
 e information from such different timescales?\n\nIn neuroscience\, recurre
 nt feedback has long been known to link the recent past and the present by
  allowing neuronal computations to be affected not just by current sensory
  input\, but by recurrent patterns of activity from the recent past. To wh
 at degree is such recurrent computation a canonical motif of neural comput
 ation that allows our brains to integrate multiple timescales required for
  behavior? In this symposium\, we explore emerging views of behaviors that
  unfold over different timescales\, and how recurrent neural computation c
 an support these behaviors.\n\nSign up to receive future updates about the
  symposium and additional events\n\nMBCT Symposium 2026 - Featured Speaker
 sSpeakerInstitutionTalk TitleJanice Chen\n\nJohns Hopkins University\n\nSt
 udying memory for natural events across multiple timescalesHidehiko Inagak
 i\n\nMax Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience\n\nPerturbation experim
 ents to dissect attractor dynamics for flexible motor timingCaroline A. Ru
 nyan\n\nUniversity of Pittsburgh\n\nState-dependent population codes acros
 s cortexKohitij KarYork UniversityComputational model-guided insights into
  temporal dynamics of the macaque ventral stream
LOCATION:Stanford Neurosciences Building | John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Rot
 unda\, E241
SUMMARY:MBCT Symposium 2026: Linking Timescales of Behavior and Neural Acti
 vity through Recurrent Computation
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 -timescales-of-behavior-and-neural-activity-through-recurrent-computation
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