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 […]
Mentorship Enables a High School Senior to Lead Sleep Research Study
CNS 2023 When Norah Wolk reached out to scientists to see if she could discuss her research interests, she did not get many responses. A junior in high school at the time, “not many of them wanted to have a conversation with a high schooler,” she recalled. But it only took one responsive postdoctoral researcher […]
CNS 2023: Day 4 Highlights
We closed out CNS 2023 in San Francisco in style with another excellent poster session, followed by a whopping 6 more symposia, including one on new studies in psychedelics and cognition, highlighted in a new press release. Check out some highlights in photos and tweets below: Poster Session F: Lots of stimulating cognitive neuroscience was […]
Psychedelics and Cognition: A New Look
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 – San Francisco – The synthesis of LSD and psilocybin in the early to mid-20th century sparked not only a new counterculture in the United States but also a new interest in brain science, specifically the role of neurotransmitters. Despite these discoveries, research on psychedelics went dormant for decades due to […]
CNS 2023: Day 3 Highlights
The third day of CNS 2023 in San Francisco included 4 symposia — on topics ranging from the a neurocomputational account of agency to how the brain continues to learn development, brain damage and competing demands — 2 poster sessions, the Young Investigator Award lectures by Anna Schapiro and Freek van Ede, and finally the […]
CNS 2023: Day 2 Highlights
The second day of CNS 2023 was packed with 6 stimulating symposia — on topics ranging from data science and electrophysiological studies of human memory to how the human brain forgets information and learning and generalization in people and machines — two poster sessions, a DEI workshop, and the George A. Miller Prize lecture by […]
Forget About It: Investigating How We Purge Thoughts from Our Minds
Sunday, March 26, 2023 – San Francisco – Forgetting is not always easy. If you have ever tried to erase that annoying earworm from your mind or stop thinking about whether you locked the door after leaving the house, you know how disruptive it can be to think about something irrelevant to the task at […]
CNS 2023: Day 1 Highlights
The 30th annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2023) kicked off in San Francisco with a fantastic line-up, including the Data Blitz session, a special symposium celebrating 30 years of cognitive neuroscience, Poster Session A, and the keynote lecture by Martha Farah about using cognitive neuroscience as a tool for understanding and mitigating […]
Poverty: What’s the Brain Got to Do With It?
CNS 2023 Q&A: Martha Farah What can neuroscience contribute to our understanding of poverty? Can it, or is it like the proverbial bicycle to the fish, unrelated and without value? This is the heart of what Martha Farah, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss in her keynote address at the CNS […]
