Cognition conferences

The Human Advantage: The Neuroscience of Leadership in the Age of AI examines how brain health and cognitive skills influence leadership, judgment, performance and resilience. With routine cognitive tasks increasingly automated, the summit considers the neural and behavioral foundations of attention, trust, adaptability, creativity, empathy and moral agency. Keynotes and interdisciplinary panels connect neuroscience research with its practical implications for individuals and organizations. Named participants include Kalina Christoff Hadjiilieva, Oriel FeldmanHall and Earl K. Miller. The summit takes place on 6 November 2026 at Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 8th floor, 3730 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Times are Eastern Standard Time (America/New_York, UTC−5). The agenda begins with registration and breakfast at 08:30, opening remarks at 09:00, and keynote and panel sessions from 09:10. Closing remarks are at 16:05, followed by a reception at 16:15. The registration system lists an overall event window of 08:00–18:00; the agenda may change. Attendance is free and open to all, including students, researchers, educators, healthcare practitioners and business professionals. Capacity is limited and advance registration is required through the event-specific Wharton form.

This UniDistance Suisse event explores how research on socio-emotional skills can inform play, learning and discussion about emotions. It introduces the Emotion board game through a keynote, an interdisciplinary panel and practical activities, in collaboration with the Réseau Émotions et Éducation. Programme on 11 November 2026, Europe/Zurich (CET, UTC+01:00): 13:45 welcome; 13:50–14:05 keynote on experiencing emotions through play with Andrea Samson (UniDistance Suisse) and Nicolas Bressoud (HEP-VS); 14:05 film; 14:15–15:00 panel with Michele Ursprung (Canal9), David Sander (CISA and University of Geneva), Alexandra Zaharia (UniDistance Suisse), Laura Moreno (University of Fribourg), and Hadi Barkat (Helvetiq). From 15:00–16:40, participants can move between networking and emotion activities, board-game demonstrations, and a workshop on educational play led by Ulrich Schädler, former director of the Swiss Museum of Games. Closing: 16:40–17:00. In-person venue: UniDistance Suisse, Schinerstrasse 18, 3900 Brig, Switzerland. Register through the event page's public registration form.

NeuroAlliance brings together cellular and systems neuroscience, biological psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience. The scientific programme examines how brain mechanisms shape cognition, behaviour and psychiatric illness, connecting molecular and cellular approaches with neuroimaging, computational analysis and clinical research. Plenaries address the microbiome–brain relationship across the lifespan, neural mechanisms of blindsight, negative self-beliefs and mental health, navigation circuits in Drosophila, biometals in brain disease, human decision-making, ovarian hormones and mental health, and computational approaches to brain patterns. Parallel symposia and contributed presentations extend these themes across neural circuits, genetics, omics and therapeutic mechanisms. All times are Australia/Sydney (AEDT, UTC+11). On 29 November, registration starts at 16:30, Welcome to Country at 17:00, opening remarks at 17:15 and the first plenary at 17:30–18:15. Scientific sessions start at 08:30 on 30 November, 08:45 on 1 December and 08:30 on 2 December; closing remarks finish at 17:00 on 2 December. Full registration costs AUD 935 for members of participating societies and AUD 1,200 for non-members; student rates are AUD 545 and AUD 660 respectively, including GST. Retired-member and day registrations are also offered. Member rates require ANS, BPA, ACNS, FENS or JNS membership. Registration uses an EventsAir account.

The 34th annual meeting brings together psychophysiology and cognitive, social and affective neuroscience research through keynote talks, oral presentations and posters. The programme includes workshops and an early- and mid-career researcher prize address. Undergraduate, postgraduate and Honours students are encouraged to present their work alongside researchers at other career stages. Student travel support is available to current ASP student members travelling more than 100 km who are otherwise self-funded; eligibility is assessed during registration. Abstract submissions close at 23:59 AEDT on 2 November, and early-bird prices end on 16 November. Conference registration offers full-programme and partial attendance options, with separately described dinner and membership inclusions.

The seventeenth BCCCD meeting covers cognitive development through paper and poster presentations and an invited programme. Topics span language and communication, social cognition, concepts and numeracy, perception and learning, memory, executive function, metacognition, culture and comparative cognition. The conference is planned as an in-person meeting at CEU’s Budapest campus, with recordings afterward but no online discussion or participation. Invited speakers are Isabelle Dautriche, Willem Frankenhuis and Julian Jara-Ettinger. Beyza G. Çiftçi and Mariem Diané chair the meeting. Presentation submissions closed on 7 September and workshop/tutorial proposals closed on 5 October 2026. Fee-waiver applications remain open until 18 November.

This meeting connects neural plasticity across molecular, synaptic, circuit and behavioural scales. The programme examines learning and memory, stress and threat responses, brain-body interactions, medial prefrontal function and behavioural strategies for interpreting neural dynamics. Additional sessions explore hippocampal computation, orbitofrontal contributions to learning and decisions, endogenous opioids, retrosplenial cortex, and activity-dependent plasticity in sensory pathways. Morning and evening symposia leave time for informal scientific discussion. Attendance is capped below 100. Registration is $750 and includes social hours, break refreshments and the banquet; accommodation is booked separately through the conference’s hotel route.

COSYNE 2027 meets in Montréal, 11–16 March: main meeting 11–14 March and workshops 15–16 March. Registration opens 2 November 2026. COSYNE brings experimental and theoretical approaches together to understand how neural systems support behaviour and cognition. Research connects systems neuroscience with computational models, emphasizing explanations of brain function and exchange between empirical and theoretical researchers. The main meeting is at Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth and workshops are at Le Westin Montréal. Abstract submission is closed. Abstracts use double-blind review, with decisions expected in December 2026. Presenting authors must register by 31 January 2027 at 23:59 EST. Early rates end on 2 February at 23:59 EST.

The Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s annual meeting brings together researchers studying the relationships between brain activity and cognition. The four-day programme includes symposia, poster sessions, a keynote and award lectures. The meeting takes place in Boston on 20–23 March 2027. Poster and travel-award applications are due 3 November 2026. Late-breaking posters have a separate January deadline. The organizer labels its dates tentative and subject to change. Regular registration rates end 15 February; onsite rates begin 16 February; hotel reservations close 24 February 2027.

Investigate how the human capacity to understand and create complex sequences in language, memory, music, dance and narrative relates to behavioural sequencing in other animals. The meeting uses ecological demands on animal behaviour to explore the evolution of these abilities and fundamental questions in comparative cognitive science. This Theo Murphy meeting is intended for researchers in relevant fields and takes place in person. Attendance is free but requires an invitation: applicants state their expertise and reasons for attending, and organisers review requests on a rolling basis. Catering and accommodation are separate. Registered participants are invited to submit posters; submissions within one month of the event may miss the programme booklet.

The fifteenth Barcelona Computational, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience meeting connects theoretical and experimental researchers, with particular emphasis on collaboration among Barcelona groups. Each day features eight to ten short research presentations and a poster session, alongside keynote lectures by Srdjan Ostojic and Nathalie Rochefort. Participants can contribute talks, posters or poster blitzes, with prizes for student contributions. The organizing committee comprises Sara Mederos, Chris Summerfield and Klaus Wimmer. Programme times, fees and submission and registration deadlines have not yet been announced.

The Vision Sciences Society meets in Seattle on 21–25 May 2027, covering visual perception, psychophysics and visual neuroscience. Abstracts are due 3 December 2026 (the organizer specifies midnight in the last time zone on Earth); symposium proposals are due 13 November. Presenters require VSS membership and meeting registration. This is an in-person meeting; exceptional remote presentations require a separate request and are limited. Other calendar milestones: banner call 20 August and deadline 17 September; membership and symposium submissions 19 October; T-shirt call 11 November; sponsor/exhibitor applications 12 November; award nominations 24 November (2026). In 2027: board nominations 3 February; student-postdoc applications 10 February; caregiver decisions 18 March; Nakayama recipient 26 March; Young Investigator recipient 27 March; committee announcement 30 March; board election opens 1 April, closes 24 April, results 28 April; programme ads 2 April; sponsor/exhibitor deadline 4 April; Meet the Professors registration 6–8 April. The calendar gives 23 April 2027 as the standard registration deadline; later registration terms are unspecified.

The meeting studies animal movement from individual cognition and decision-making through social coordination, populations and evolutionary change. It examines responses to extreme conditions, the effects of movement on species interactions and disease, and connections with conservation, land use and infrastructure. New tracking technologies, multiple sensor streams, onboard processing, near-real-time observations and AI-based analyses will be discussed as ways to connect mechanisms with environmental change. Animals are considered both study subjects and indicators of changing habitats. Attendance applications are reviewed and capacity may fill before the application deadline.

This meeting connects basic and applied research on memory and cognition, emphasizing work that is both theoretically grounded and relevant to real-world settings. Researchers at all career stages can present individual talks and posters or organize 75-minute symposia with four to six presentations and a discussant. The programme supports exchange across methods and applications, with dedicated opportunities for students and early-career researchers. Abstract and symposium submissions close on 2 November 2026.

The meeting links amygdala-centered neural activity to emotional and internal states across molecules, cells, circuits, brain-wide networks and human neuroscience. Themes include motivation, reward, social behavior, threat, learning, memory, decision making, stress, addiction, pain and psychiatric disease. Basic, computational, translational and clinical researchers will discuss technologies for measuring, mapping, modelling and manipulating these mechanisms. Talks, poster sessions and discussion focus on emerging and unpublished research. Applicants need a science or engineering bachelor’s degree or equivalent; undergraduates are not eligible. Places may fill before the application deadline.

The Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) conference connects cognitive science, neuroscience and artificial intelligence through computational explanations of complex behaviour. Its scope includes mechanistic interpretability, representation learning and alignment, biological and artificial intelligence, neural dynamics, and models of perception, cognition and action. The primarily single-track format combines keynotes, research talks and posters with some parallel community sessions. Generative Adversarial Collaborations examine competing theories; keynote-and-tutorial sessions connect research methods with practical implementation. The published submission and early-registration deadlines use end-of-day Anywhere on Earth (AoE, UTC−12).

The annual meeting brings together researchers studying the human mind across psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology and philosophy. The 2027 theme, Human Cognition in the Age of AI, connects this interdisciplinary community with questions about cognition and artificial systems. Programme chairs are Marta Kryven, Tianmin Shu, Chris Lucas, Bonan Zhao and Ilia Sucholutsky.