Helena M. Gellersen^1,2,3; ¹MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK, ²Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK, ³German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Magdeburg, Germany

Talk 3 - The unique neural circuits underlying top-down and bottom-up motivated self-control during nutritional decision making

Matthew D. Bachman¹; ¹University of Toronto

Talk 4 - Longitudinal mapping of social brain development in common marmosets

Maëva Gacoin¹; ¹McGill University

Talk 5 - A Topological Principle of Parent-Child Brain Morphological Similarity

Qingyi Li¹; ¹Department of Psychology, Virginia Tech

Talk 6 - Dynamic Reconfiguration of Large-Scale Brain Networks During Naturalistic Emotional Stimulation

Elena Skoullou¹; ¹The University of Tokyo

Talk 7 - Awake Infant fMRI and Deep Neural Network Models Reveal Hierarchical Development of Object Feature Tuning in the Ventral Visual Stream

Áine T. Dineen¹; ¹Trinity College Dublin

Talk 8 - Age-Related Neural Dedifferentiation is Driven by Reduced Reliability

Tiantian Yang¹; ¹University of Michigan

Talk 9 - Sex and menopause differences in how hippocampal subfield volumes predict spatial source memory at midlife

Sara Ahmed¹; ¹Toronto Metropolitan University

Talk 10 - Sticky Situations and Sticky Thoughts: Investigating Stress, Coping, and Thoughts

Cecilia Liu¹; ¹University of Calgary

Talk 11 - Common electrophysiological dynamics of human posterior cingulate cortex engagement during memory and value based decisions

Seth Koslov¹; ¹University of Pennsylvania

Talk 12 - Music-evoked memory engages similar behavioural and neurophysiological patterns in mild cognitive impairment and healthy controls

Veronica Vuong^1,2; ¹University of Toronto, ²Baycrest

Talk 13 - Cortical latency predicts reading fluency from late childhood to early adolescence

Fang Wang¹; ¹Graduate School of Education, Stanford University

Talk 14 - Preserved Memory performance despite reduced hippocampal volume in treatment-resistant depression

Claire Lauzon^1,2; ¹York University, ²Sunnybrook Research Institute

Talk 15 - Neural representations of faces are widely distributed and highly individualized

Ivette Colón^1,2; ¹University of Wisconsin - Madison, ²Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Data Blitz Session 3

Saturday, March 7, 2026, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PST, Salon E

Talk 1 - The effect of lexical ambiguity on memory: An EEG study

Vanessa Keller¹; ¹University of York

Talk 2 - Can we reactivate a memory during sleep to improve respiration in people who stop breathing due to a sleep disorder?

Erika M. Yamazaki¹; ¹Northwestern University

Talk 3 - Arousal state modulation of human hippocampal ripples across wake and sleep

Elizabeth M. Siefert¹; ¹University of Pennsylvania

Talk 4 - Sensorimotor EEG responses to iconicity and embodied processing during sign language production

Meghan E. McGarry¹; ¹Gallaudet University

Talk 5 - Conversational engagement modulates neural speech tracking in real-time dialogue

Marcos E. Domínguez Arriola¹; ¹McGill University

Talk 6 - Auditory Network Integration and Neural Representations Collapse Under General Anesthesia: Evidence from Intracranial EEG and Self-Supervised Learning

Hao Zhu¹; ¹Brain and Mind Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Talk 7 - Simultaneous representation of multiple object-states in language is supported by left temporal theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling

Wesley Leong^1,2; ¹University of Connecticut, ²Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Talk 8 - Subcortical contributions to prediction and reward in language processing

Kshipra Gurunandan¹; ¹University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Talk 9 - Tempo-Evoked Arousal: Distortions of Temporal Memory and Temporal Expansion

Mikaila Tombe¹; ¹McGill University

Talk 10 - Hippocampal–Auditory Activation During Music Listening in Anesthetized States

Xiangbin Teng¹; ¹Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China

Talk 11 - Inhibitory stimulation of the dorsolateral cortex impairs emotional regulation via disrupted frontoparietal and cingulo-opercular connectivity

Miroslaw Wyczesany¹; ¹Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

Talk 12 - Task incorporation into dreams and memory consolidation

Sarah F Schoch¹; ¹University Children's Hospital Zurich, Switzerland

Talk 13 - Sleep Spindles Gate the Temporal Window for Emotional Memory Modification

Tao Xia¹; ¹The University of Hong Kong

Talk 14 - The Brain Resilience Study: Circadian rhythm amplitude is associated with cognitive performance in older adults

Stephanie R. U^1,2; ¹Simon Fraser University, ²Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology, Simon Fraser University

Talk 15 - Auditory task-related aperiodic EEG activity in autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Miguel A. Velasquez¹; ¹University of New Orleans

Data Blitz Session 4

Saturday, March 7, 2026, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm PST, Salon F

Talk 1 - APOE4-Related Alterations in Reward Circuitry and Prosocial Effort-Based Decision Making in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease

Caitlin Walker^1,2; ¹McGill University, ²Montreal Neurological Institute

Talk 2 - Neural responses in the macaque inferotemporal cortex to translucent-object images

Hoko Nakada¹; ¹Natl. Inst. of Advanced Industrial Sci. and Technol. (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan

Talk 3 - Visual working memory representations of naturalistic images in the early visual cortex are not sensory-like

Leonardo Pettini^1,2,3,4; ¹Department of Psychology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, ²Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health), Berlin, Germany, ³Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, ⁴Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany

Talk 4 - Explainable Multimodal Models for Cognitive Aging: SHAP Analyses Reveal Clinically Relevant Nonlinear Structural and Graph-Theoretical Network Features

Héctor Manuel Cárdenas Castro¹; ¹Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey

Talk 5 - Exploring Gait Related Changes in Brain Activation in Super Movers

Maya Hoff¹; ¹Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Talk 6 - Splitting Mental Imagery: A Divided Visual Field Adaptation of the Mental Imagery fMRI Paradigm for future Split-Brain Application

Mrs. Selin Bekir¹; ¹University of California, Santa Barbara

Talk 10 - Concept cells in the temporal pole and the posterior cingulate cortex: testing memory systems at the neuronal level?

Vincent Dornier¹; ¹Univ Toulouse, CNRS, Brain and cognition research centre (CerCo), Toulouse, France

Talk 15 - Grasping unseen physical properties of objects: The role of the ventral visual pathway in object-directed action

Emefa Akwayena¹; ¹Carnegie Mellon University

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March 7 – 10, 2026

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Data Blitz Sessions

Data Blitz Session 1

Talk 1 - Stability and Change in Autobiographical Memory Narratives

Talk 2 - Neural mechanisms of insight: nonlinear cortical representational change with hippocampal and catecholamine engagement

Talk 3 - Narratives Have a Persisting Influence on the Tempo of the Brain

Talk 4 - Tracking memory for a positive collective event: A longitudinal study of the 2024 solar eclipse

Talk 5 - Mnemonic Ramping: Exploring the unique temporal dynamics of encoding and retrieval success over time

Talk 6 - Tracking Event Boundary Processing in Language: Hierarchical Dynamics of Comprehension and Memory

Talk 7 - Disentangling exposure- and retrieval-based mechanisms of word–image associative learning through repeated recognition practice

Talk 8 - The Effect of Gaze Reinstatement Precision on Memory

Talk 9 - Independent and Joint Contributions of Mind-Wandering and Reactivation to Memory Consolidation

Talk 10 - Hippocampal modulation via indirectly targeted noninvasive stimulation is intensity-dependent and region-selective

Talk 11 - Depth-of-processing-like computations explain visually-evoked activity in the human medial temporal lobe

Talk 12 - Computational methods can significantly predict humans’ scoring of story recall details

Talk 13 - Accounting for experimental factors diminishes neural measures of subsequent memory

Talk 14 - Reinstatement of Complex Semantic Memory Representations for Visual Scenes Captured through Language Embeddings

Talk 15 - Cortical traveling wave pattern reinstatement supports successful associative memory formation and retrieval in humans

Data Blitz Session 2

Talk 1 - Eye Hear You: Eye movements to mental imagery during speech comprehension in noise

Talk 2 - Connectome-based modelling of inter-individual variability in perceptual and mnemonic fidelity in healthy ageing