The third day of CNS 2025 in Boston included 4 symposia — on topics ranging from use of smartphones to better understand and strengthen memory to visual development across cognitive systems — 2 poster sessions, a workshop on navigating difficult times, the Young Investigator Award lectures by Emily Finn and André Bastos, and the Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award lecture by Marie Banich. Check out some highlights in photos and posts below.
It’s a beautiful morning for science! Grab some coffee and check out Poster Session D
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 8:14 AM
@alexkfischbach.bsky.social & @halleeshearer.bsky.social in action 🙌🏽
And congrats to all the poster presenters today—great to see so all the neuroimaging methods represented at #CNS2025
— Stephanie Noble (@sneuroble.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Yesterday I gave a talk at #CNS2025 on my postdoc project bridging lab & classroom—measuring attention in schools. As an early-stage researcher, it was an incredible opportunity to stand on that stage and contribute to this evolving conversation on real life neuroscience.
— Adi Korisky (@adikorisky.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Research from @aaronbornstein.bsky.social
Early life unpredictability modulates planning horizon and structural inference #CNS2025 2/— Claire Pleche (@clairepleche.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We’re in Symposium Session 8 “Memory in the plan of your hand”, learning about smartphone studies and how they are contributing to understanding – and perhaps strengthening – memory
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social kicks it off!
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Now Morgan Barense will talk about using smartphones to study the influence of sleep and dreaming on real-life memories
#CNS2025
@barense.bsky.social— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM
On now: Lila Davachi discusses how experimental novelty influences and can potentially enhance mood and memory
#CNS2025
@liladavachi.bsky.social— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Want to learn more about smartphone-based studies on memory? Check out our #CNS2025 press release “How Dreams, Novelty, and Emotions Can Shape Memories: Lessons from Smartphone Studies,” featuring the work of @evgoldfarb.bsky.social @barense.bsky.social @liladavachi.bsky.social:
— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We’re excited to hear this year’s Young Investigator Award recipients @esfinn.bsky.social @andrebastosof.bsky.social talk about their award-winning research! And exciting to see them with some past winners @freekvanede.bsky.social @striemamit.bsky.social
Join us in the Grand Ballroom!
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
@freekvanede.bsky.social presents the Young Investigator Award to @esfinn.bsky.social and @andrebastosof.bsky.social
Congratulations!
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 2:08 PM
🎉 Big shoutout to our amazing lab members who presented their posters at #CNS2025! 🎉
So great to see @mskehl.bsky.social , @manqisha.bsky.social , @xianhuihe.bsky.social and Mathew Thomas Kollamkulam showcasing their hard work and research! 🧠
Some behind-the-scenes shots of them in action 👇
— Katrijn Schruers (@katschruers.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Still time left to check out Poster Session E! #CNS2025
— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Congratulations to Marie Banich, the #CNS2025 Distinguished Career Contributions Award! Excited about her talk in cognitive control.
— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Growing up in a family of left-handers got Banich interested in cognitive neuroscience and understanding the hemispheres in the brain 3/
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Banich turned to neuroimaging to understand how we can trash unwanted thoughts in the mind, whether by replacing the thought, suppressing the thought, or clearing the mind of all thought…bringing the work back to cognitive control 8/
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Banich and other researchers have been able to actually trace the path to purge an unwanted thought from working memory, mapping specific brain activity patterns for the different ways it's done, including for those with psychopathologies 9/
#CNS2025— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Great award lecture by Marie Banich! Congratulations!Learn more about this work in our #CNS2025 Q&A with Banich: 10/
— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
i’ve been reading dr. marie banich’s work for years, and today at CNS i finally got to hear her talk about it in the context of her career in her “CNS distinguished career contributions award” lecture. it was amazing! 🧠📚✨🤓 #CNS2025
— Emily Harriott (@emilymharriott.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The last few days, the members of the GaabLab attended the COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE SOCIETY meeting in Boston! As you can see, we had a blast! I am so proud of these young scientists, who rocked their poster presentations and represented the lab and #Harvard. #CNS2025
— Dr. Nadine Gaab (@gaablab.bsky.social) March 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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