CNS 2025: Q&A with Marie Banich Marie Banich’s journey in cognitive neuroscience started with very personal motivations: first from a curiosity about what her family’s propensity for left handedness meant and then to a drive to help people who suffer from unwanted thoughts, after witnessing the devastating effects that had […]

CNS 2025: Q&A with Ken Paller What started for Ken Paller as traditional memory research in cognitive neuroscience has now turned into an integrated approach to understanding memory, sleep, and dreams. In addition to using novel tools and technologies to modify sleep, the work also connects with Indo-Tibetan Buddhist literature […]

CNS 2025: Q&A with Adriana Galván As a parent of a teen, it can be crushingly difficult to sort through the social drama while attempting to provide guidance that you hope will keep your teen safe. Cognitive neuroscientists are finding, however, that the adolescent brain has its own mechanisms of […]

Bad experiences can shape our lives in unconscious ways. If you, say, tried a new dish at a restaurant and got food poisoning, you may not only avoid that restaurant in the future but potentially that dish, even in other settings. Researchers have documented in many studies how negative emotions […]

We’ve all experienced it – reading some pages in a book when your mind starts to drift and then realizing that you missed a key point and have to go back and reread the same page. The experience of mind wandering appears throughout our daily lives, whether reading, driving home […]

CNS 2024 guest post by Julia Cardarelli Preparing to write this post about new memory research presented at CNS 2024 in Toronto required me to search my own memories for what I found most salient. A lot of my recall from the event comes down to certain factors that affect […]

In the Roald Dahl book The BFG, a “Big Friendly Giant” spends his time blowing happy dreams into children that he has collected from Dream Country. In modern neuroscience labs, some researchers are now working to “blow” dreams into people, collecting them via  high-tech ”Dream Country” of sorts: virtual reality […]

CNS 2024 Every day, we have an almost nonstop view of different actions unfolding around us, whether in traffic watching cars, on TV observing people interact, or at a park seeing dogs and kids playing. For scientists trying to understand how we take in such visual information, it is often […]

We closed out CNS 2024 in Toronto with another excellent poster session, followed by a whopping 6 more symposia, including  on the production of language nd a special session in honor of Endel Tulving about the modern science of memory. Check out some highlights in photos and tweets below: Poster […]