The third day of CNS 2026 in Vancouver included 4 symposia — on topics ranging from individual fMRI as a paradigm shift for cognitive neuroscience to new approaches for real-world cognition — 2 poster sessions, a workshop on navigating difficult times, the Young Investigator Award lectures by Monica Rosenberg and Samuel McDougle, and the Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award lecture by Carol Barnes. Check out some highlights in photos and posts below.
A grey but beautiful morning in Vancouver…so no better time for posters to wake up the mind! Join us at Poster Session D. Coffee and breakfast here too! #CNS2026
— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 11:13 AM
@jocn.bsky.social Travel Fellows @cogneuronews.bsky.social , repping Türkiye, India, Wisconsin ;-), Morocco, & Columbia
— Brad Postle (@bradpostle.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 12:58 PM
I know the day isn’t over but let me tell you, my wee lab CRUSHED that poster session!! Two hours all lab members were chatting the WHOLE time! I am the proudest PI outchea yall!! Look how cute we are with today’s brain baddie celebrity: Dr. Bradley Voytek! #CNS2026
— the tiniest doomwook (@drdebah.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 1:50 PM
One more CNS presentation done, #CNS2026, utterly enjoying the conversation with people from different fields, and bullish on the applications of LLM at the frontier of cognitive neuroscience.
— Yuhua Yu (@yuhuay.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Happening now in Granville II, Communications Open House! 👇
Bonus: If you missed breakfast in the poster session, we have coffee, tea, and pastries… Come on by and chat or just chill!
#CNS2026— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Good morning #CNS2026 Hope you’ll join us at 10:00 to discuss the temporal organization of experience in the brain! I’m excited for all the talks and very happy to be a part of it.
@cnsmtg.bsky.social
— Ben Kanter (@beneuroscience.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Kicking off the Day 3 morning symposium on recent advances in naturalistic paradigms in neuroscience: Dominic Bach @bachlab.bsky.social presenting an immersive VR setup to study threat related behaviours like escape, avoidance, dynamic updating of goals. So cool and more on poster E96!! #CNS2026
— Mohith M. Varma (Mo) (@mohithvarma.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Up next @avitalhahamy.bsky.social using machine learning to track reactivation of narratively rich events (movie clips, stories). The brain seems to reliably “replay” them at event boundaries i.e. right before next clip begins, hinting this replay helps us understand what just happened! #CNS2026 👇
— Mohith M. Varma (Mo) (@mohithvarma.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Now Nachum Ulanovsky joining remotely to take us into the social lives of bats 🦇
Apparently bats are not just tiny flying vampires🤣, instead they are very social animals!
Incredible research on how bat brains track as bats navigate in their colonies and their interactions with other bats! #CNS2026
— Mohith M. Varma (Mo) (@mohithvarma.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
In a workshop, Resistance and Resilience During Science Funding Crises, the focus now is on communication, #scicomm, and how that can be a tool for advocacy. Now in small group exercises…
#CNS2026— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Day 3 with @gc-cogneuro.bsky.social at #CNS2026 @cnsmtg.bsky.social
Lunch time 🌯 at the Brain Box Social today! After this, it’s Poster Session E 🧠. Stop by Booth 14 and say hi.👋— Angela S. (@neurosierra.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Congratulations @monicarosenb.bsky.social on your Young Investigator Award! Join us now for her #CNS2026 award talk, about neural signatures of sustained attention, with intro by @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social
— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Congratulations @actlab.bsky.social on your Young Investigator Award! Join us now for his #CNS2026 award talk, about generalized prediction errors in the human cerebellum a d the motor system, with an intro by @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social
— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Congratulations to trailblazer Carol Barnes, winner of this year’s Distinguished Career Contributions Award! Join us in the Ballroom for her award lecture about cognitive aging, intro by Lee Ryan.
#CNS2026— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 7:40 PM
The challenge for the future, Barnes said, is to optimize cognitive health across the lifetime.
Learn more about Barnes’ groundbreaking work in our exclusive #CNS2026 Q&A:
www.cogneurosociety.org/50-years-of-…
#scicomm #neuroscience 6/— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
The trainee panel is starting now! Hear from an all-star panel about strategies for building a career that lasts
#CNS2026— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 8:56 PM
A lot of great guidance at this session, on everything from finding mentors and building peer networks to how to balance productivity with opportunities for recognition and life happenings
#CNS2026 6/— Cognitive Neuroscience Society (@cogneuronews.bsky.social) March 9, 2026 at 9:21 PM
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