trainee

CNS 2020 Day 3 Highlights

May 4, 2020

The third day of CNS 2020 Virtual was rich and full, with 21 symposium talks, 3 panel discussions (one was live!), 2 award talks, and 2 poster sessions. From looking at the neural correlates of reading development to examining the sequential neural replay of human memories, symposia covered the latest […]

From Scaffolding to Screens: Understanding the Developing Brain for Reading

May 4, 2020

CNS 2020 Press Release May 4, 2020 – In the debate about nature versus nurture for developing reading skills, cognitive neuroscientists have a clear message: both matter. From infancy, children have a neural scaffolding in place upon which environmental factors refine and build reading skills. In new work being presented […]

cns 2020

CNS 2020 Day 2 Highlights

May 3, 2020

Day 2 of CNS 2020 Virtual started off strong with the first invited symposium, chaired by Christoph Kayser, and featuring a terrific panel of speakers on the role causal inference for perceptual decisions and adaptive behavior. Midday, Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Melon University) delivered her Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions in […]

cns 2020

CNS 2020 Virtual: Day 1, First Impressions

May 2, 2020

Today was the first day of a new type of scientific conference — an entirely virtual annual CNS meeting. We are excited to be able to pioneer this new format in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, to bring you all the great cognitive neuroscience originally planned for our meeting […]

Updated Registration Fee Statement

April 7, 2020

Registration Fee Statement: Updated April 7, 2020 The Cognitive Neuroscience Society is happy to announce that as we continue to move our 2020 physical meeting in Boston to the 2020 worldwide virtual meeting, registration fees will be significantly reduced, and that the difference between the old fee structure and the […]

CNS 2020 Virtual

March 20, 2020

CNS 2020 Virtual: Update March 20, 2020 We are pleased to announce the dates of the CNS 2020 Virtual Meeting as May 2-5, 2020. The meeting will be very similar to the Boston meeting in terms of organization and will have virtually all of the original content, plus new presentations […]

FABBS

Cognitive Neuroscience Society joins FABBS

February 20, 2020

The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) is excited to announce that we have joined the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences (FABBS). As many of our members will be aware, FABBS works to advance the sciences of the mind, brain, and behavior by advocating for our fields and representing […]

career

Juggling the Early Years of a Cognitive Neuroscience Career

February 18, 2020

Shelby Smith remembers feeling inspired and humbled the first time she attended the professional development panel at an annual CNS meeting. “There is just something about being in a room filled to the brim with other students where the only purpose of being there is to show you that you’re […]

cooperation

It’s All Relative: Cooperation Makes People A Special Type of Ape

February 4, 2020

Q&A with Michael Tomasello When Michael Tomasello was an undergraduate student at Duke University studying developmental psychology, he studied the theories of Jean Piaget, a psychologist who thought evolutionarily. “He was looking at children like they were a different species,” Tomasello recalls. “He would always emphasize that they have their […]

learning

Modeling Learning Across the Lifespan

January 28, 2020

Q&A with Catherine Hartley At a special session on the relation between psychology and neuroscience at last year’s CNS conference in San Francisco, Catherine Hartley said: “Even if we can predict behavior, if we don’t know how it works, we likely have not achieved our goals.” While computational algorithms and […]

Blog Archives

CNS2025-Logo_FNL_HZ-150_REV

March 29–April 1  |  2025