The second day of CNS 2024 was richly packed with 6 stimulating symposia — on topics ranging from the role of sleep in emotional healing and deploying attention in real-world learning to the cognitive functions of replay — two poster sessions, an XR workshop, and the George A. Miller Prize lecture by Ken Paller about the hidden benefits of sleep and potential pathways for amplifying them. After the science sessions ended, participants could take in some rock music with the band Pavlov’s Dogz. Check out some highlights in photos and posts below.
Good morning #CNS2025! Grab some coffee and join us in Poster Session B. Get your early dose of science!
— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Leo Yuhao Jin Shared exciting results about showed that 🐒 can dissociate learnable vs unlearnable pic sequences both beh and dACC. Also the correlation with beh and neural data. Ref:https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2202789119— Kun Dong (@kundong.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Miriam Hauptman presented their findings about causal inferences using reading materials and its neural correlates. Ref: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre…— Kun Dong (@kundong.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Replay drives memory transformation, not just strengthening ! – Anna Schapiro #CNS2025 2/
— Claire Pleche (@clairepleche.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 10:31 AM
At #CNS2025 New Directions in Scientific Communication in Cognitive Neuroscience. @imagingneurosci.bsky.social @jocn.bsky.social @jocnforum.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social @bradpostle.bsky.social
— Nick Lindsay (@bluenoser2.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is a challenge we are grappling with as a Society. Engagement on Twitter is down while engagement here is up but numbers of users within the cognitive neuroscience community are still low. We want to have community for sharing ideas between meetings!
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We’re in Symposium Session 3 on the healing powers of sleep, starting with Jessica Payne on stress, sleep, and emotional memory
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Tradeoffs happen in that we tend to remember the emotional part of the memory at the expense of neutral details, like remembering a car crash compared to the neutral background. This tradeoff is enhanced after sleep. -Payne 3/
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Our ancestors probably wouldn’t have survived without this selective ability to remember negative events…but there can be too much of a good thing, like in clinical conditions such as anxiety disorders, PTSD, and depression. -Payne 6/
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Next up in Symposium Session 3 is Tony Cunningham about sleep loss and recovery sleep for emotional memories.
Full house! 1/
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
In a total sleep deprived state, overall memory deteriorates but there’s still selective preference for emotional memories at the expense of neutral ones. Napping after sleep deprivation prseves neutral memory retention AND enhances memory of negative objects even more. -Cunningham 2/
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Now in Symposium Session 3, Xinran Niu will discuss memory deficits in anxiety disorders and depression
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Finally in Symposium Session 3, Xiaoqing Hu will discuss updating emotional memories during sleep. He starts by talking about the power of being able to forget, especially to suppress unwanted memories
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Evidence is accumulating that memory editing during sleep is possible, including in disorders like PTSD -Hu 3/
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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