See you at SAMBA X MEG!

After a one-year break in 2025, SAMBA -Salzburg Mind Brain Annual Meeting returns for its 2026 edition, taking place on 2–3 July 2026 in the beautiful city of Salzburg.

As always in the eclectic SAMBA spirit, the meeting will bring together researchers working across a range of domains and methodologies. Topics will include the neural mechanisms underlying perception, language, attention, mental imagery, auditory processing, and brain function in clinical settings. By connecting methodological advances with theoretical and clinical perspectives, the conference aims to foster discussion across different areas of cognitive and systems neuroscience.

This year, we will also celebrate a special milestone: the 10-year anniversary of MEG in Salzburg.

Once again, an outstanding lineup of international speakers has agreed to join us, promising another inspiring and lively SAMBA meeting.

We are delighted to welcome:

• Andrea E. Martin (Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Psycholinguistics & Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (DCCN), Donders Institute, Radboud University)
• Ayelet Landau (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / University College London)
• Bruno L. Giordano (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), CNRS and Aix Marseille Université)
• Joachim Groß (University of Münster)
• Judit Gervain (Padua Neuroscience Center, University of Padua, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes)
• Marzia De Lucia (Brain-Body and Consciousness Lab, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Center for Biomedical Imaging, Switzerland)
• Nadine Dijkstra (Department of Imaging Neuroscience (the FIL), Institute of Neurology, University College London)
• Richard Gao (Goethe University Frankfurt, Institute of Computer Science)
• Simon Jacob (TUM University Hospital)
• Stefan Rampp (Department of Neurosurgery, Department of Neuroradiology, University Hospital Erlangen, Germany; Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Halle (Saale), Germany)

We look forward to welcoming you to Salzburg for inspiring discussions, new collaborations, and the celebration of a decade of MEG research in Salzburg.

Gianpaolo Demarchi and Nathan Weisz