Schedule of Events | Symposia

Symposia

Symposium Session 1 - Creating the structure of ongoing experience

Chair: James Antony¹; ¹California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Although time flows continuously, we tend to chunk our experiences into discrete events. This chunking has been demonstrated behaviorally – via recall clustering within versus across events &nda… View More…

Symposium Session 2 - New directions in scientific communication in cognitive neuroscience

Chairs: William Matchin¹, Brad Postle²; ¹University of South Carolina, ²University of Wisconsin-Madison

Communication is essential to science – our results and theories are only as useful as they can be conveyed to others. However, there are many challenges to effective science communication. Soci… View More…

Symposium Session 3 - Healing While Sleeping? How sleep shapes our emotional experiences

Chairs: Xiaoqing Hu¹, Jessica Payne²; ¹The University of Hong Kong, ²University of Notre Dame

While it is well-established that sleep plays an important role in re-processing emotional memories, significant questions remain to be addressed. Specifically, to which extent does sleep prioritize t… View More…

Symposium Session 4 - Deploying Attention in Real-World Learning Environments within Individual Minds: Contributions from Precision Imaging and Educational Neuroscience.

Chair: Bruce McCandliss¹; ¹Stanford University

Cognitive neuroscience investigations of attention are increasingly expanding to grapple with several forms of complexity. Neural measures are moving beyond a 'one-size-fits-all' model towa… View More…

Symposium Session 5 - Nature and nurture revisited: new insights about core knowledge and visual development across cognitive systems

Chairs: Gabriel Kreiman^1,2, Elisabetta Versace³; ¹Harvard Medical School, ²Boston Children's Hospital, ³Queen Mary University of London

The convergence between advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and models of how brains perform computations highlights a central question common to cognition and AI: the extent to which natural and… View More…

Symposium Session 6 - Uncertainty Resolution across Learning, Memory, and Decision-making

Chair: Vishnu Murty¹; ¹University of Oregon

The ability to adaptively navigate the world is challenged by individual’s having incomplete models of how the world works. This type of uncertainty is pervasive across a wide range of behaviors… View More…

Symposium Session 7 - Interactions between the brain's visual and memory systems: recent advances and new perspectives

Chairs: Adam Steel¹, Serra Favila²; ¹University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, ²Brown University

Understanding how the human brain integrates externally- and internally-oriented information is a central goal of cognitive neuroscience. Yet, conventional studies of brain organization often separate… View More…

Symposium Session 8 - Memory in the palm of your hand: New smartphone techniques for measuring emotion and memories of real-life experiences

Chair: Elizabeth Goldfarb¹; ¹Yale University

Our memories emerge from our complex and emotionally dynamic everyday experiences. However, many episodic memory studies take place in controlled laboratory settings, which, while offering precision, … View More…

Symposium Session 9 - Decoding spontaneous thought from neural activity

Chairs: Aaron Kucyi¹, Julia Kam²; ¹Drexel University, ²University of Calgary

Understanding the neural basis of mind-wandering and spontaneous thought is an emerging topic in contemporary cognitive neuroscience. In an era dominated by experimental models in cognitive neuroscien… View More…

Symposium Session 10 - What can(‘t) oscillations tell us about cognition?

Chair: Agatha Lenartowicz¹; ¹UCLA

Neural oscillations clearly play an important role in cognition and neural computation. Thought to capture fundamental mechanisms of neural communication, they have featured prominently in models of a… View More…

Symposium Session 11 - Harnessing virtual reality to study memory and spatial navigation across the lifespan

Chairs: Tammy Tran¹, Rolando Masís-Obando^2,3; ¹Stanford University, ²Johns Hopkins University, ³Princeton University

In recent years, there is increasing popularity of the usage of immersive virtual reality to explore complex cognitive processes. The current symposium proposal demonstrates innovative applications of… View More…

Symposium Session 12 - Advancing global and local theories of DMN function across cognitive domains

Chair: Ajay Satpute¹; ¹Northeastern University

The brain is composed of networks of interacting brain regions that support higher-order cognition. Among these, the default mode network (DMN) appears to cut across cognitive domains with contributio… View More…