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Friday, March 6, 2026

8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop

Workshop

Parq Grand Ballroom

Saturday, March 7, 2026

9:30 am - 6:30 pm

On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In

Registration

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Data Blitz Session 1

Data Blitz

Salon ABC

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Data Blitz Session 2

Data Blitz

Salon D

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Data Blitz Session 3

Data Blitz

Salon E

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Data Blitz Session 4

Data Blitz

Salon F

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Lunch Break (On your own)

Break

On Your Own

12:00 - 2:00 pm

Exhibitor Check In

Exhibits

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

12:30 - 1:00 pm

Poster Session A Set-Up

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Rising Stars Session

Slide

Salon EF

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Poster Session A

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

3:00 - 5:15 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Coffee Service

Break

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

5:00 - 5:15 pm

Poster Session A Take-Down

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

5:00 - 6:00 pm

Keynote Address (Open to the Public)
Our language-ready brain, Peter Hagoort, Ph.D.

Keynote

Parq Grand Ballroom

5:15 pm - 8:30 am

Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

6:00 - 7:00 pm

Welcome Reception

Social

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

Sunday, March 8, 2026

7:30 - 8:00 am

Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session B Set-up Only

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

7:30 am - 6:30 pm

On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In

Registration

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00 - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Break

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00 - 10:00 am

Poster Session B

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

8:00 am - 7:15 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Invited Symposium 1

Invited Symposium

Salon ABCD

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Invited Symposium 2

Invited Symposium

Salon EF

11:30 - 11:45 am

Poster Session B Take-Down

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break (On your own)

Break

On Your Own

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 1
Beyond biomarkers: Comprehensive approaches to brain resilience in aging and dementia

Symposium

Salon ABC

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 2
Mapping Emotions in the Brain Beyond Localization: How Neuroimaging and Machine Learning Can Reshape Contemporary Theoretical Frameworks

Symposium

Salon D

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 3
Hippocampus and sequential behaviors across different timescales and memory domains in humans

Symposium

Salon E

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 4
The hunt for the neural correlates of Cognitive Reserve

Symposium

Salon F

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Coffee Service

Break

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Poster Session C Set-Up

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

4:00 - 5:00 pm

The 32nd Annual George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture
Putting the 'Mental' Back Into 'Mental' Disorders by Fusing the Science of Emotion with the Science of Consciousness, Joseph LeDoux, Ph.D.

Award

Parq Grand Ballroom

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Poster Session C

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

7:00 - 7:15 pm

Poster Session C Take-Down

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

7:15 pm - 7:30 am

Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

Monday, March 9, 2026

7:30 - 8:00 am

Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session D Set-up Only

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

8:00 - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Break

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00 - 10:00 am

Poster Session D

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

8:00 am - 5:30 pm

On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In

Registration

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30 - 10:00 am

Communications Open House
Lisa Munoz, Public Information Officer

Press

Cambie

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Symposium Session 5
Network Integrity and Disconnection Syndromes: New Insights from the Split-Brain

Symposium

Salon ABC

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Symposium Session 6
Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience

Symposium

Salon D

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Symposium Session 7
Neural Time Machine: Temporal Organization of Experience in the Brain

Symposium

Salon E

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Symposium Session 8
Neuroscience needs (natural/istic) behavior: Mechanistic approaches to real-world cognition

Symposium

Salon F

11:30 - 11:45 am

Poster Session D Take-Down

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break (On your own)

Break

D/6 Lounge

1:30 - 2:00 pm

Young Investigator Award Lecture 1
TBA, Monica Rosenberg, PhD.

Award

Salon EF

1:30 - 2:00 pm

Poster Session E Set-Up

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

2:30 - 4:30 pm

Poster Session E

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Coffee Service

Break

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

4:30 - 5:30 pm

The 15th Annual Distinguished Career Contributions Award Lecture
TBA, Carol Barnes, Ph.D.

Award

Parq Grand Ballroom

5:30 - 5:45 pm

Poster Session E Take-Down

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

5:45 - 7:15 pm

10th Annual CNSTA Trainee Professional Career Panel

Panel

Salon ABCD

5:45 pm - 7:30 am

Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

7:30 - 10:00 pm

CNS Student Trainee Social Night

Social

TBD

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

7:30 - 8:00 am

Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session F Set-up Only

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

8:00 - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Break

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00 - 10:00 am

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

8:00 - 10:00 am

Poster Session F

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

8:00 am - 3:00 pm

On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In

Registration

Parq Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:00 - 10:15 am

Poster Session F Take-Down

Poster Session

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Invited Symposium 3

Invited Symposium

Salon ABCD

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Invited Symposium 4

Invited Symposium

Salon EF

10:15 am - 3:30 pm

Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day

Exhibits

Fairview/Kitsilano Ballroom

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break (On your own)

Break

TBD

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 9
Cognitive Insights into Attention and Cross-Modal Integration from Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging

Symposium

Salon ABC

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 10
Abstract Representations in Neural Architectures

Symposium

Salon D

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 11
Emotion and the organization of temporal context in memory

Symposium

Salon E

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 12
Neural Computations of Motivated Behavior in Youth

Symposium

Salon F

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