diff --git a/model_training_nnn/rnn_args.yaml b/model_training_nnn/rnn_args.yaml
index 2944d29..81a2957 100644
--- a/model_training_nnn/rnn_args.yaml
+++ b/model_training_nnn/rnn_args.yaml
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ dataset:
     smooth_kernel_std: 2 # standard deviation of the smoothing kernel applied to the data
 
   neural_dim: 512 # dimensionality of the neural data
-  batch_size: 64 # batch size for training
+  batch_size: 32 # batch size for training
   n_classes: 41 # number of classes (phonemes) in the dataset
   max_seq_elements: 500 # maximum number of sequence elements (phonemes) for any trial
   days_per_batch: 4 # number of randomly-selected days to include in each batch