
MARCH 13–16 • 2021
CNS 2021 Virtual Meeting | Schedule Overview
All times ET/Eastern Time
Saturday, March 13, 2021
10:30 - 11:00 am | Welcome & Opening Ceremonies, Cerebrum Room |
10:30 am - 6:00 pm | Exhibits Open, Exhibit Hall |
11:00 - 12:30 pm | Data Blitz Session 1, Axon Room |
Data Blitz Session 2, Cerebrum Room |
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Data Blitz Session 3, Dendrite Room |
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Data Blitz Session 4, Synapse Room |
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12:30 - 1:00 pm | Workshops & Lunch Break |
1:00 - 3:00 pm | Special Session - Honoring Brenda Milner: A Lifetime of Brain Science, Morris Moscovitch, Chair, Cerebrum Room |
Opening Remarks: Honoring Brenda Milner, Morris Moscovitch | |
Talk 1: Brenda Milner and the Hippocampus: In her Own Words, Lynn Nadel | |
Talk 2: Left ≠ right in the human brain: Brenda Milner and hemispheric specialization, Marilyn Jones-Gotman | |
Talk 3: Brenda Milner: Pioneer of the Frontal Lobes, Bryan Kolb | |
Talk 4: Functions of the hippocampal system – 65 years after Brenda Milner opened the doors, Nobel Laureate, May-Britt Moser | |
Closing Comments with Brenda Milner, Lesley Fellows | |
3:00 - 4:00 pm | Keynote Address Lecture, Cerebrum Room |
The Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Physical Activity on the Human Brain by Dr. Wendy Suzuki, New York University, Cerebrum Room |
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4:00 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session A, Exhibit Hall |
Sunday, March 14, 2021
8:30 - 10:30 am | Poster Session B, Exhibit Hall |
8:30 am - 6:00 pm | Exhibits Open, Exhibit Hall |
10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Invited Symposium 1 – How Prior Knowledge Shapes Encoding of New Memories, Co-Chaired by Rik Henson and Andrea Greve, Axon Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: The Influence of Neural Context and Reinstatement of Prior Knowledge (schemas and semantic categories) on Encoding, Morris Moscovitch | |
Talk 2: Hippocampal-Medial Prefrontal Interactions Guide how Existing Memories Bias New Learning, Alison R. Preston | |
Talk 3: Modeling when Episodic Encoding Should Take Place to Support Event Prediction, Qihong Lu | |
Talk 4: Schema and Prediction Error in Episodic Memory Encoding, Andrea Greve | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Invited Symposium 2 – Implications of Anatomical Brain Network Features for Cognition, Danielle S. Bassett, Chair, Dendrite Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Brain Networks in Motivational and Cognitive Dysfunction, Masud Husain | |
Talk 2: Shaping Brain Structure, How Evolution and Cognition Organize the Brain, Sofie Valk | |
Talk 3: Exploring Brain Function-Structure Coupling During Resting-State and Tasks, Maria Giulia Preti | |
Talk 4: Anatomical Network Constraints Upon (and support for) Cognitive Control, Danielle S. Bassett | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
12:30 - 1:00 pm | Workshops & Lunch Break |
1:00 - 2:00 pm | 27th Annual George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture, Cerebrum Room |
George and Me: From the Cognitive Revolution to the Human Neuroscience of Emotion and Memory, Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D., Harvard University | |
2:00 - 4:00 pm | Symposium 1- The Network Structure of Episodic Thought, Rose Cooper, Chair, Axon Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Detailed Anatomy of a Distributed Network Activated During Episodic Projection, Rodrigo Braga | |
Talk 2: Organization of Cortico-Hippocampal Networks in the Human Brain, Alex Barnett |
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Talk 3: Functional Heterogeneity of the Posterior Medial Network during Episodic Tasks, Rose Cooper | |
Talk 4: Brain Dynamics Underlying Memory for Continuous Natural Events, Janice Chen |
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Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
2:00 - 4:00 pm | Symposium 2- How Does Prestimulus Brain State Influence Perception?, Biyu Jade He, Chair, Dendrite Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Cognitive Control Network States Impacting Perception, Sepideh Sadaghiani | |
Talk 2: Different Prestimulus Excitability/Connectivity States Support Perceiving Anything vs. a Thing, Nathan Weisz | |
Talk 3: Endogenous Activity Modulates Stimulus and Neural Tuning and Predicts Perceptual Behavior, Avniel Ghuman | |
Talk 4: A Dual Role of Prestimulus Spontaneous Neural Activity in Visual Object Recognition, Biyu Jade He | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
2:00 - 4:00 pm | Symposium 3- Studying the Neonatal and Infant Brain: From Neuroscience to Interventions, Natalie Maitre, Chair, Synapse Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Gut Microbiomes and Early Human Neurodevelopment, M. Hickey | |
Talk 2: Neural Markers of Infant Auditory Learning During Early Development, A. Key | |
Talk 3: Choline as an Early Neurodevelopmental Intervention in Children with Prenatal Alcohol Exposure, JR Wozniak | |
Talk 4: Neonatal Multisensory Processing: From Observations to Interventions, N. Maitre |
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Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
4:00 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session C, Exhibit Hall |
Monday, March 15, 2021
8:30 - 10:00 am | Communications Open House, Press Room |
8:30 - 10:30 am | Poster Session D, Exhibit Hall |
8:30 am - 6:00 pm | Exhibits Open, Exhibit Hall |
10:30 am - 12:30 pm | CNS Trainee Professional Development Panel, Axon Room |
10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Special Session - Affirming Black Excellence in Cognitive Neuroscience, Cerebrum Room |
Talk 1: Don't choke: Factors affecting skilled performance, Taraz Lee | |
Talk 2: Music Event Segmentation and Representation in High-order Brain Areas, Jamal Williams | |
Talk 3: Neuroscience of Embodied Cognition, Ben Baker | |
Talk 4: Sleep Is Not A Luxury: Learning from our past to create a future of sleep equity, Lauren Whitehurst | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session, moderator, Lauren Whitehurst | |
12:30 - 1:00 pm | Workshops & Lunch Break |
1:00 - 2:00 pm | 10th Annual Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture, Cerebrum Room |
Prefrontal Cortex and the Control of Attention, Robert Desimone, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT | |
2:00 - 4:00 pm | Symposium 4 - Before the Predictions: The Roles of Memory on Predictive Processing, Yee Lee Shing, Chair, Axon Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Imaginary and Illusory Information is Decodable from Different Layers of Primary Visual Cortex (V1), Johanna Bergmann | |
Talk 2: Spatial (Semantic) Priors in Memory and their Effect on (Un)conscious Perception, Eelke Spaak | |
Talk 3: Schema- and Episodic-Based Predictions During Visual Narrative Perception, Martina G. Vilas | |
Talk 4: Feedback Signals from Episodic and Semantic Content in Non-Stimulated Areas of the V1/V2, Javier Ortiz-Tudela | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
2:00 - 4:00 pm | Symposium 5 - The Behavioural Relevance of Neural Variability, Leonhard Waschke, Chair, Dendrite Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Stimulants Decrease Neuronal Correlated Variability when Improving Selective Attention, Amy Ni | |
Talk 2: The Continuous Loop Between Brain Activity and Behaviour, Marieke Scholvinck |
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Talk 3: Electrophysiological Variability and its Role for Behaviour, Leonhard Waschke |
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Talk 4: Behavioural Relevance of Spontaneous, Transient Brain Network Interactions in fMRI, Diego Vidaurre | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
2:00 - 4:00 pm | Symposium 6 - The Social Cerebellum and its Role in Interaction Sequences, Frank Van Overwalle, Chair, Synapse Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: The Social Cerebellum: New Insights and Evidence on Action Sequencing, Frank Van Overwalle | |
Talk 2: The Cerebellar Engagement in Reconstructing Action Sequences - A study on cerbellar patients, Libera Siciliano | |
Talk 3: The Social Cerebellum: New Sequencing Tasks and Cerebello-Cortical Connections, Elien Heleven | |
Talk 4: Neurostimulation of the Affective Cerebellum: Processing of others' Emotional Expressions, Chiara Ferrari | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
4:00 - 6:00 pm | Poster Session E, Exhibit Hall |
6:00 - 7:00 pm | CNS Trainee Social (CNSTA Trivia Night! Via Zoom) |
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
8:30 - 10:30 am | Poster Session F, Exhibit Hall |
8:30 am - 4:00 pm | Exhibits Open, Exhibit Hall |
10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Invited Symposium 3 – Neural Networks in Cognitive Neuroscience, Co-Chaired by Christopher Summerfield & Grace Lindsay, Axon Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Exploring the Top-Down Signals Needed for Visual Attention, Grace Lindsay | |
Talk 2: How to Study Cognition with Recurrent Neural Networks, Robert Yang | |
Talk 3: How do Neural Networks Learn Object Categories?, Talia Konkle | |
Talk 4: Neural Structure Alignment in Humans and Neural Networks, Chris Summerfield |
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Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
10:30 am - 12:30 pm | Invited Symposium in Honor of Art Shimamura, |
Introduction, Rich Ivry, Dendrite Room |
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Talk 1: Renaissance Man: Reminiscences from a Student of Art, Juliana Baldo | |
Talk 2: Working with Memory: A Journey that Started in the ShimLab, Charan Ranganath |
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Talk 3: Inhibitory Control Over Memory by the Prefrontal Cortex, Mike Anderson | |
Talk 4: The Mystery Spot and Visual Illusions, Bill Prinzmetal | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
12:30 - 1:00 pm | Workshops & Lunch Break |
1:00 - 2:00 pm | Young Investigator Award Special Lectures, Cerebrum Room |
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Modeling the Role of Executive Functions in Reinforcement Learning - Anne Collins, UC Berkeley |
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Weighing the Value of Control - Amitai Shenhav, Brown University |
2:00 - 4:00 pm | Symposium 7 - New Insights on Multisensory Brain Organization from Multivoxel Pattern Analysis MVPA to Laminar fMRI, Anna Gaglianese, Chair, Axon Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Voxel-Wise Modelling Reveals Sound Envelope Representation in Primary Visual Cortex, Davide Bottari | |
Talk 2: Similar Categorical Representation from Sound and Sight in the Cortex of Sighted and Blind, Olivier Collignon | |
Talk 3: Fast Temporal and High Spatial Resolution fMRI to Study Multisensory Processes in the Human Brain, Anna Gaglianese | |
Talk 4: Resolving Multisensory and Attentional Influences Across Cortical Depth in Sensory Cortices, Uta Noppeney | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
2:00 - 4:00 pm | Symposium 8 - New Frontiers and Technologies in Vision Rehabilitation, Benedetta Franceschiello, Chair, Dendrite Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Digital Haptics in Vision Rehabilitation, Ruxandra Tivadar |
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Talk 2: Visual Restoration by a Photovoltaic Retinal Prosthesis and Optogenetic Therapy, Serge Picaud | |
Talk 3: Multisensory Integration Development for Rehabilitation, Monica Gori | |
Talk 4: MIME - Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Moving Eye, Benedetta Franceschiello |
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Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session | |
2:00 - 4:00 pm | Symposium 9 - Computational M/EEG Modelling: Bridging Scales Towards Brain Health and Disease, Jeremie Lefebvre, Chair, Synapse Room |
Introduction | |
Talk 1: Loss of Consciousness in General Anaesthesia May Be Understood by Rendering the Brain More Determini, Axel Hutt | |
Talk 2: Human Neocortical Neurosolver: A New Neural Modeling Tool to Link Mechanism to Meaning of EEG/MEG, Stephanie Jones | |
Talk 3: Modulation of Corticothalamic Rhythmogenic Circuits in Depressed Patients by rTMS Neurostimulation, John D. Griffiths | |
Talk 4: How to Talk to Neurons: Engaging Neural Circuits, Systems and Rhythms Using Brain Stimulation , Jeremie Lefebvre | |
Zoom Q&A: Speaker will take Questions from the Audience directly after the session |