CNS 2026 Press Room

Join us in Vancouver to explore the nature of how we think!

Press registration is now open for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual conference, March 7-10, at the JW Marriott Parq in Vancouver, British Columbia. Get great story ideas and connect with hundreds of neuroscientists, presenting some of the latest research on memory, language, aging, neurotechnology, and learning.

Press registration is now open.

Please read our credential policy and email Lisa Munoz at to register.

Highlights will include:

• Keynote address by Peter Hagoort (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics): A lecture about how the human brain uniquely becomes ready for language development.
• Award lectures by Joseph LeDoux (NYU) on how the study of consciousness can potentially help achieve a deeper understanding of mental disorders; Carol Barnes (University of Arizona) about healthy cognitive aging; Monica Rosenberg (University of Chicago) about the relationship between attention and individual differences in cognition; and Samuel D. McDougle (Yale University) about the many ways the cerebellum contributes to cognition, beyond just the classical sensorimotor role.
• Symposia about: comprehensive approaches to brain resilience in aging and dementia; the mechanisms of motivated behavior in adolescence; how the brain encodes, segments, and retrieves experiences in time; and more.
• More than 1,000 posters and 50 talks covering the latest neuroscience research on learning, memory, attention, decision-making, language, music, and more.

Read our CNS 2025 blog coverage here.

To qualify as a member of the press, please be prepared to share press credentials in the form of one of the following: a business card from a verified news media outlet, a membership card for a journalistic professional society (e.g. NASW), letter from an editor of a news media outlet to show that you are on assignment, or recent clips related to neuroscience. Read our full credential policy.

For all media inquiries, please contact:
Lisa M.P. Munoz, CNS Public Information Officer

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