When Our Brains Trick Us with a False Memory

When I was very young, my family visited Disney World, and for years after, I had a fairly vivid memory of the Dumbo ride: the elephants spun around vertically like a Ferris wheel. When I returned there decades later as an adult with my own family, I was stunned to see that the elephants spin […]

Exploring Coincidences: When We Find Meaning in Random Patterns

As a master’s student studying paranormal beliefs and parapsychology some 15 years ago, Christian Rominger stumbled upon a paper by Paola Bressan about “meaningful coincidences” and why they might happen. “What really caught my attention about meaningful coincidences is that they’re different from other paranormal ideas and phenomena. They’re tied closely to our behaviors and […]

Using Virtual Reality to Explore the Neuroscience of Out-of-Body Experiences

When I was young, I remember first hearing the phrase “out-of-body experience” in reference to the Shirley Maclaine TV series “Out on a Limb.” At the time, I remember thinking of it as a mystical, mysterious state. Now, researchers know these experiences can happen through meditation, sensory deprivation, or when hearing death, but little is […]

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What Do Math Skills Look Like in the Brain?

School’s out for summer – at least in most places in the Northern Hemisphere. That means most kids will not be giving a lot of thought to math for a couple months, but for some cognitive neuroscientists, math will continue to be an important area of study. Cognitive scientists have long been interested in the […]

Trainees Learn About Navigating a New World with a New Mindset

CNS 2023 Guest post by Casey M. Imperio (CNSTA) As the world begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, many fields are beginning to restructure how they view work-life balance. That theme was prevalent for cognitive neuroscience trainees at the 2023 CNS conference in San Francisco. At the CNS Training Association (CNSTA) panel, five esteemed […]

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April 13–16 | 2024

SAVE THE DATE! CNS 2024 Annual Meeting - April 13-16, 2024

We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2024 Annual Meeting on April 13-16,2024 in Toronto, Canada! #CNS2024 We will have a full schedule of events slated for this year's meeting that will include Invited Symposia, Symposia, Several Poster Sessions, a Keynote Address as well as our Annual George A. Miller Award Lecture, Distinguished Career Contributions Award Lecture and Young Investigators Award Lecture.

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