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Into the night: The cognitive neuroscience of dreaming

Chair: Remington Mallett^1,2; ¹University of Montréal, ²Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine

While our grasp of waking cognition has expanded, the study of dreaming remains a complex and challenging field. This complexity is being unraveled thanks to technological and methodological innovatio… View More…

Hippocampal predictions link perception and memory

Chairs: Peter Kok¹, Morgan Barense²; ¹University College London, ²University of Toronto

Memory and perception are intimately linked through prediction. Memory is used to generate predictions of upcoming perceptual events, and mismatches between those predictions and perception determine … View More…

Multisensory Development Across the Neurotypical and Neurodivergent Lifespan: The Birth of a Research Consortium

Chairs: Mark Wallace¹, Micah Murray^2,3; ¹Vanderbilt University, ²Lausanne University Hospital, ³University of Lausanne

One of the most challenging jobs for the developing brain is the almost continually changing nature of the sensory information that it is tasked with processing. In addition to the widening experienti… View More…

Reconciling the Impact of Emotion on Episodic Relational Memory

Chairs: Florin Dolcos¹, Deborah Talmi²; ¹University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, ²University of Cambridge, UK

The effects of emotion on memory are wide-ranging and powerful, but they are not uniform. Although there is agreement that emotion enhances memory for individual items, how it influences memory for as… View More…

Subjectivity: Who cares?

Chairs: Brian Levine^1,2, Brad Buchsbaum^1,2, Andrew P. Yonelinas³; ¹Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, ²Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, ³Department of Psychology, UC Davis

Science demands operationalization. In the study of memory, recall or recognition responses are interpreted according to that test’s scoring criteria, enabling agreement on what is right and wro… View More…

Insights into flexible cognition: Structure learning, inference, and abstraction based on cognitive maps

Chair: Stephanie Theves¹; ¹Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

The concept of a cognitive map, a mental model that integrates various relationships between experiences, has been a long-standing idea in psychology. Systems neuroscience has provided compelling evid… View More…

Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Mindfulness: Insights from Basic Research and Translational Science

Chair: Erika Nyhus¹; ¹Bowdoin College

Mindfulness meditation is the practice of becoming aware of present-moment experience with a compassionate, nonjudgmental stance (Kabat-Zinn, 1990). This seemingly simple act has had a profound impac… View More…

A hands-on technical workshop for cognitive neuroscientists

Chair: Bradley Voytek¹; ¹UC San Diego

Data science! GitHub! LLMs and generative AI and scikit-learn and… it feels like there are an overwhelming number of technical skills and technologies to learn in order to succeed in our curren… View More…

Cortical mechanisms for transsaccadic perception and memory

Chairs: John Douglas Crawford¹, Bianca Baltaretu²; ¹York University, Toronto Canada, ²Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany

Visual perception and memory are usually studied in the laboratory with the eyes fixed on one location, but in real world circumstances we make saccades several times per second. Thus, ‘transsac… View More…

Endel Tulving and the Modern Science of Memory

Chairs: Daniel L. Schacter¹, Donna Rose Addis^2,3; ¹Harvard University, ²Rotman Research Institute, ³University of Toronto

Endel Tulving (1927-2023) was a major figure in the cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience of memory, generating numerous findings and theories that have shaped these fields over the past six… View More…

Advances in speech prosody perception research: Integrating behavioral, neuroimaging, (neuro)genomics, and clinical techniques

Chairs: Tamar Regev¹, Srishti Nayak²; ¹MIT, ²Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Prosody encompasses the acoustic features of spoken language—pitch, loudness, duration, timbre—that carry linguistic, emotional, and social information. Although prosody plays an essential… View More…

Leveraging social cognitive neuroscience tools to characterize heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorder

Chairs: Dorit Kliemann¹, Gabriela Rosenblau²; ¹The University of Iowa, ²The George Washington University

Social challenges constitute a core difficulty for many psychiatric conditions, most prominently for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Despite a long line of research characterizing social differences b… View More…