Symposia

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

Chair: Randy McIntosh¹; ¹Simon Fraser University

The human brain is embedded in the body, and the body is embedded in a complex personal and social environment. Understanding the variability of brain health trajectories into late life, therefore, re… View More…

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

Chair: Patrik Vuilleumier¹; ¹University of Geneva (Switzerland)

Emotions are a central ingredient of the mind and behavior but continue to generate intense debate across psychology and neuroscience. Different theoretical frameworks are generally opposed to describ… View More…

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

Chair: Genevieve Albouy¹; ¹University of Utah

The goal of this symposium is to examine the capacity of the hippocampus to represent the sequential order of learned information across different timescales and memory domains. First, Dr. Damisah wil… View More…

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

Chairs: Prof Richard Henson¹, Christian Habeck²; ¹University of Cambridge, ²Columbia University

The term “Cognitive Reserve” was coined by neurologists to describe how people can show comparable atrophy on a clinical brain scan, owing to old age or Alzheimer’s Disease for examp… View More…

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

Chair: Michael Miller¹; ¹University of California Santa Barbara

The split-brain represents one of the fundamental models of cognitive neuroscience, providing unique insights into the consequences of hemispheric severance and the nature of lateralized information p… View More…

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

Chairs: Andre Zamani¹, Jingnan Du²; ¹University of British Columbia, ²Harvard University

For decades, cognitive neuroscience has largely relied on a group-level approach, collecting small amounts of fMRI data from many separate individuals and statistically averaging them to produce group… View More…

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

Chair: Jie Zheng¹; ¹University of California, Davis

Episodic memory depends on the brain’s ability to organize continuous experience into temporally structured representations. Yet, the neural mechanisms that support this organization—rangi… View More…

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

Chair: Avital Hahamy¹; ¹University College London

In controlled laboratory paradigms, behavior is typically well defined and easily quantified through reaction times, error rates, or discrete choices, allowing neural responses to be interpreted in re… View More…

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

Chairs: Hyojin Park¹, Ole Jensen²; ¹University of Birmingham, ²University of Oxford

A central challenge in cognitive neuroscience is to understand how sensory information is routed during attention allocation and how cross-modal inputs are integrated. Assessing the excitability of se… View More…

Symposium Session 10 - Abstract Representations in Neural Architectures

Chairs: Ms Iryna Schommartz¹, Victoria Nicholls²; ¹Goethe University Frankfurt, ²Lüdwig-Maximillians-Universität München

Abstract representations are fundamental to human cognition, allowing us to generalize beyond specific instances and to navigate complex environments efficiently. From recognizing objects and scenes t… View More…

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

Chair: Joseph Dunsmoor¹; ¹University of Texas at Austin

A defining feature of episodic memory involves remembering not only what happened, but when it happened. While emotion can enhance the vividness and recollection of an event, its effect on the tempora… View More…

Symposium Session 12 - Neural Computations of Motivated Behavior in Youth

Chair: Dr Jeremy Hogeveen¹; ¹The University of New Mexico

Adolescence is a critical developmental period for calibrating motivated behavior—from learning to seek rewards to avoiding prospective threats. This behavioral shift is paralleled by the signif… View More…