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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000">Due to</span>
<a href="https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/hungary/" title="https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/hungary/">
renewed increase in the number of COVID-19 infections</a> <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000">
and continuing uncertainties regarding the underlying trends and potential pandemic-related regulations in Hungary, the organizing committee has made the difficult decision to hold a
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic">fully virtual</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700">BCCCD
meeting</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"> once again, forgoing the previously announced hybrid option. This means that the conference will take place exclusively online, between
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700">10 and 14 January 2022</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000">. We are very sorry that we won’t be able to host
you in Budapest, but given the aforementioned circumstances, we cannot confidently plan a safe and well-attended local event.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000">The presentation formats will be adjusted to the online constraints the following way. All accepted
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic">poster submissions</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"> will transform to
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;font-style:italic">virtual presentations</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000">. Virtual presenters will have their dedicated channel
on an online platform, with their material uploaded directly into the channel, so that attendees will have access to the presentations that they can discuss in the same space. Additionally, presenters will be asked to be online in their channel during assigned
sessions, so that participants in different time zones can attend each other's presentation slots. Accepted
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic">paper submissions</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"> will either move to one of the
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;font-style:italic">online live paper sessions</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000">, or, in case they were also submitted for
poster sessions but not selected to be included in the paper sessions, will also be transformed to virtual presentations. Similarly, accepted
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic">virtual presentations</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"> will either move to an online paper
session or remain virtual presentations. Finally, all accepted </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:700;font-style:italic">symposia</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"> (whether
they were submitted to the on-site or the online part of the conference) will be held online, and we will offer the option to the contributors of not selected symposia to turn their talks into virtual presentations. We will notify the corresponding author
of each submission about acceptance and the format of their presentation by the end of this week.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:489px;height:287px"><img alt="Chenges in presentation formats" style="max-width:100%" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YFUwS3ikwFymAi1GdgCfuWKIdg2YwYLT09j2UWq9WvgojrtxPjgCoGCPsAJskd62nO-drqVeti9DTeFQK4f_35t9-13urrC_FRCgXIdb394mA6BgO5RKRYSMawzUKOBTbBaLt4f1=s1600"></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000">We hope that in spite of this change in format, BCCCD22 will prove to be a professionally stimulating and memorable experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000">Hanna Marno and Bálint Varga</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000">Conference chairs</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"><b>BCCCD22</b>: 10-14 January 2022<br>
<span><a href="http://www.bcccd.org">www.bcccd.org</a></span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Open Sans',sans-serif;color:#000000"><b>INVITED SPEAKERS</b></span></p>
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<li>Fiery Cushman (Harvard University)</li><li>Rebecca Saxe (MIT) </li></ul>
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<div><b>INVITED SYMPOSIUM</b><br>
Active learning: computational, neural, and developmental perspectives </div>
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<li>Irene Cogliati Dezza (UCL, MIT, Ghent University)</li><li>Jacqueline Gottlieb (Columbia University)</li><li>Constantin A. Rothkopf (Technical University of Darmstadt)</li><li>Azzurra Ruggeri (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Technical University Munich, Central European University)
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<div><b>Registration opens</b>: October 23, 2021 <br>
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<div><b>Registration fees:</b></div>
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