Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Travel Fellowship

The annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society typically enjoys robust attendance from individuals from institutions based in the US and Canada, Europe, and Northeast Asia. To help promote geographic diversity in our science, the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience has teamed up with CNS to create the JoCN Travel Fellowship, which provides a travel stipend of $3000, plus waived conference registration and waived poster submission fee, to one trainee based at an institution located in each of five regions that have been underrepresented at the CNS conference: Oceania and Southeast Asia; South Asia; Africa; West Asia; and southern Western Hemisphere (excludes Canada and USA).

Congratulations to the 2026 JoCN Travel Fellowship Winners:

Threat and Prediction Modulations of Early Neural Responding to Facial Inputs are not Pre-Attentive
Philip T. Chalk, The University of Queensland, School of Psychology.

Enhanced Cognitive Processing in Musicians: A Comparative ERP Study of Executive Functions
Manal Lamouine, Al Akhawayn University Ifrane- Morocco

Toward Translational Mechanisms of Learned Helplessness: Linking Behavior, Computation, and Neural Modulation
Adithya Anil, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

What Gets Decoded in Frontoparietal Cortices?
Adem Yazici, Bilkent University, Department of Psychology

Sequential vs. Simultaneous Encoding and Spatial vs. Temporal Retro-Cueing: Dissociating Working Memory Access Mechanisms
Juan Pablo Abril Ronderos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

JoCN Travel Fellows from previous years:

2025

Phuong Dang, Queensland Brain Institute, Australia
Marisol Espinoza, Instituto de Neurobiología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Querétaro, Mexico
Moramay Ramos-Flores, Institute of Neurobiology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Querétaro, Mexico
Ankit Yadav, National Brain Research Centre, India
Hasan Duymuş, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Psychology, Turkey

2024

Esaú Sirius, Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Paulo, Brazil
Emily Brooks, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Vinsea A V Singh, National Brain Research Centre, India
İpek Çiftçi, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

2023

Christine A. Leonards, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville,Victoria, Australia
Zeguo Qiu, The University of Queensland
Veena Kander, Department of Neurophysiology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Kenneth Oparaji, Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo (AE-FUNAI), Nigeria

2022

Sophie Smit, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Prerna Dash, Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies, Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi
Nursima Ünver, Psychology Department, Sabanci University, İstanbul, Türkiye
Eduardo Gonzalez-Alemany, Department of Cognitive and Social Neurosciences, Center for Neurosciences of Cuba, La Habana, Cuba