Schedule of Events

All times are in Boston time zone (Eastern Time).

Saturday, March 29, 2025
6:30 am - 3:30 pm	On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In	Registration	Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:30 - 9:00 am	Data Blitz Session 1	Data Blitz	Grand Ballroom
7:30 - 9:00 am	Data Blitz Session 2	Data Blitz	Independence Ballroom
7:30 - 9:00 am	Data Blitz Session 3	Data Blitz	Constitution A
7:30 - 9:00 am	Data Blitz Session 4	Data Blitz	Constitution B
9:00 - 10:00 am	Workshop Platforms, paradigms, and pipelines for characterizing multisensory development in children	Workshop	Grand Ballroom
9:00 - 10:00 am	Workshop Communicating Cognitive Neuroscience Concepts for Maximum Impact	Workshop	Independence Ballroom
9:00 - 10:00 am	Lunch Break (On your own)	Break	On Your Own
9:00 - 11:00 am	Exhibitor Check In	Exhibits	Grand Ballroom Foyer
9:30 - 10:00 am	Poster Session A Set-Up	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Rising Stars Session	Slide	Constitution Ballroom
12:00 - 2:00 pm	Poster Session A	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
12:00 - 2:15 pm	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
12:30 - 1:00 pm	Coffee Service	Break	Grand Ballroom Foyer
2:00 - 2:15 pm	Poster Session A Take-Down	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
2:00 - 3:00 pm	Keynote Address (Open to the Public) Adolescent Brain Development: The Importance of Connections, Adriana Galván, Ph.D.	Keynote	Grand Ballroom
2:15 pm - 4:30 am	Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
3:00 - 4:00 pm	Welcome Reception	Social	Grand Ballroom Foyer
Sunday, March 30, 2025
4:30 - 5:00 am	Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session B Set-up Only	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
4:30 am - 3:30 pm	On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In	Registration	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:00 - 5:30 am	Continental Breakfast	Break	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 am	Poster Session B	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
5:00 am - 4:15 pm	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
7:00 - 9:00 am	Invited Symposium 1 Cognitive functions of replay. Anna Schapiro, Chair	Invited Symposium	Grand Ballroom
7:00 - 9:00 am	Invited Symposium 2 Advances in lesion methods: Mapping, plasticity, disconnectomics, and more. Lesley Fellows, Chair	Invited Symposium	Constitution Ballroom
8:30 - 8:45 am	Poster Session B Take-Down	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
9:00 - 10:30 am	Lunch Break (On your own)	Break	On Your Own
9:15 - 10:15 am	Workshop Integrating biosensors with XR: capturing brain and behavioural data in naturalistic settings	Workshop	Grand Ballroom
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Symposium Session 1 The hunt for the neural correlates of Cognitive Reserve	Symposium	Grand Ballroom
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Symposium Session 2 Mapping Emotions in the Brain Beyond Localization: How Neuroimaging and Machine Learning Can Reshape Contemporary Theoretical Frameworks	Symposium	Independence Ballroom
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Symposium Session 3 Beyond biomarkers: Comprehensive approaches to brain resilience in aging and dementia	Symposium	Constitution A
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Symposium Session 4 Hippocampus and sequential behaviors across different timescales and memory domains in humans	Symposium	Constitution B
12:30 - 1:00 pm	Poster Session C Set-Up	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
12:30 - 1:00 pm	Coffee Service	Break	Grand Ballroom Foyer
1:00 - 2:00 pm	The 31st Annual George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture The Hidden Benefits of Sleep and Potential Pathways for Amplifying Them, Ken Paller, Ph.D.	Award	Grand Ballroom
2:00 - 4:00 pm	Poster Session C	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
4:00 - 4:15 pm	Poster Session C Take-Down	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
4:15 pm - 4:30 am	Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
5:00 - 8:00 pm	Pavlov's Dogz Cantab Lounge Underground located at 738 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139	Social	Cantab Lounge Underground
Monday, March 31, 2025
4:30 - 5:00 am	Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session D Set-up Only	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
5:00 - 5:30 am	Continental Breakfast	Break	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 am	Poster Session D	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
5:00 am - 2:00 pm	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
5:00 am - 2:30 pm	On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In	Registration	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:30 - 7:00 am	Communications Open House Lisa Munoz, Public Information Officer	Press	Clarendon
7:00 - 9:00 am	Symposium Session 5 Network Integrity and Disconnection Syndromes: New Insights from the Split-Brain	Symposium	Grand Ballroom
7:00 - 9:00 am	Symposium Session 6 Neuroscience needs (natural/istic) behavior: Mechanistic approaches to real-world cognition	Symposium	Independence Ballroom
7:00 - 9:00 am	Symposium Session 7 Neural Time Machine: Temporal Organization of Experience in the Brain	Symposium	Constitution A
7:00 - 9:00 am	Symposium Session 8 Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience	Symposium	Constitution B
8:30 - 8:45 am	Poster Session D Take-Down	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
9:00 - 10:30 am	Lunch Break (On your own)	Break	On Your Own
9:15 - 10:15 am	Workshop Interactive career development workshop	Workshop	Grand Ballroom
9:15 - 10:15 am	Workshop Navigating this challenging time	Workshop	Independence Ballroom
10:30 - 11:00 am	Young Investigator Award Lecture One stimulus, many interpretations: The neuroscience of subjective experience, Emily S. Finn	Award	Grand Ballroom
10:30 - 11:00 am	Poster Session E Set-Up	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
11:00 - 11:30 am	Young Investigator Award Lecture Multi-Area, high-Density, Laminar Neurophysiology (MaDeLaNe) recordings suggest Predictive Coding is implemented via Predictive Routing, André M. Bastos	Award	Grand Ballroom
11:30 am - 1:30 pm	Poster Session E	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
12:30 - 1:00 pm	Coffee Service	Break	Grand Ballroom Foyer
1:30 - 2:30 pm	The 14th Annual Distinguished Career Contributions Award Lecture Cognitive Control: From Interacting Hemispheres to Purging Thoughts, Marie T. Banich, Ph.D.	Award	Grand Ballroom
2:30 - 2:45 pm	Poster Session E Take-Down	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
2:45 - 4:15 pm	9th Annual CNSTA Trainee Professional Career Panel	Panel	Independence Ballroom
2:45 pm - 4:30 am	Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
4:30 - 7:00 pm	CNS Student Trainee Social Night Cornwall's Tavern, located 644 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02215	Social	Cornwall's Tavern
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
4:30 - 5:00 am	Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session F Set-up Only	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
5:00 - 5:30 am	Continental Breakfast	Break	Grand Ballroom Foyer
5:00 - 7:00 am	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
5:00 - 7:00 am	Poster Session F	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
5:00 am - 12:00 pm	On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In	Registration	Grand Ballroom Foyer
7:00 - 7:15 am	Poster Session F Take-Down	Poster Session	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
7:00 - 9:00 am	Invited Symposium 3 100 Years of EEG: Where Are We? Bin He, Chair	Invited Symposium	Grand Ballroom
7:00 - 9:00 am	Invited Symposium 4 The Cognitive Thalamus: Thalamocortical Mechanisms in Attention and Cognitive Control. Kai Hwang, Chair	Invited Symposium	Constitution Ballroom
7:15 am - 12:30 pm	Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day	Exhibits	Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom
9:00 - 10:30 am	Lunch Break (On your own)	Break	On Your Own
9:15 - 10:15 am	Workshop Wearable Sensor solutions for integrated mobile EEG/EXG, motion capture & eye tracking in the real and virtual worlds.	Workshop	Grand Ballroom
9:15 - 10:15 am	Workshop Opportunities for education, research, and innovation partnerships with Europe	Workshop	Independence Ballroom
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Symposium Session 9 Cognitive Insights into Attention and Cross-Modal Integration from Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging	Symposium	Grand Ballroom
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Symposium Session 10 Neural Computations of Motivated Behavior in Youth	Symposium	Independence Ballroom
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Symposium Session 11 Abstract Representations in Neural Architectures	Symposium	Constitution A
10:30 am - 12:30 pm	Symposium Session 12 Emotion and the organization of temporal context in memory	Symposium	Constitution B

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