Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Travel Fellowships

The annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society typically enjoys robust attendance from individuals from institutions based in the US and Canada, Europe, and Northeast Asia. To help promote geographic diversity in our science, the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience has teamed up with CNS to create the JoCN Travel Fellowship, which provides a travel stipend of $3000, plus waived conference registration and waived poster submission fee, to one trainee from each of four regions that have been underrepresented at the CNS conference: Oceania and Southeast Asia; South Asia; Africa and West Asia; and Western Hemisphere (minus US and Canada).

JoCN Travel Fellow Awardees for 2023

Southeast Asia & Oceania

Christine A. Leonards, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville,Victoria, Australia

"Where is Wally and How Quickly Do We Know It? Fixation-related Electrical Potentials during a Free Visual Exploration Task Reveal the Timing of Visual Awareness"

Zeguo Qiu, The University of Queensland

South Asia

“Effect of Agenesis and damage of Corpus Callosum on Visual Memory”

Prerna Dash, Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies, Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi

Africa & West Asia

"Online paediatric EEG handbook: a survey on its usefulness"

Veena Kander, Department of Neurophysiology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

"Mixed ginger (Zingiber officinale) and garlic (Allium sativum) juice attenuates hippocampal astrocytic response and other markers of hippocampal function in lead-induced Wistar rats."

Kenneth Oparaji, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo (AE-FUNAI), Nigeria

“The effects of divided attention on long-term memory retrieval”

Nursima Ünver, Psychology Department, Sabanci University, İstanbul, Türkiye

Western Hemisphere (excluding US and Canada)

“High-performance athletes in combat sports: understanding the neural bases of aggression”

Eduardo Gonzalez-Alemany, Department of Cognitive and Social Neurosciences, Center for Neurosciences of Cuba, La Habana, Cuba

*In 2022, three of the four JoCN Travel Fellows were unable to attend the conference due to pandemic-related backlogs at many U.S. consulates. Therefore, for 2023, awardees will be selected further in advance of the conference date, to allow more time to obtain a visa to travel to the U.S. It is understood that, in the summer of 2022, applicants may not have collected as much data as would typically be expected for a conference abstract submission. The primary criteria for evaluation will be the inherent interest of the research question and the methods used to test it.

JoCN Travel Fellows from previous years:

2022:

Southeast Asia & Oceania

“Feeling touch and seeing someone touched can recruit overlapping neural representations: evidence from multivariate decoding of EEG data”

Sophie Smit, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia