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CNS 2020 | Registration
Deadline TODAY, February 23
  
CNS 2020 Annual Meeting - Regular Registration Rates Deadline, February 23rd. Register Early and Save! 

Registration includes admission to all Scientific Sessions including Keynote Session, Invited Symposia, Symposia, Awards, Poster Sessions, and their regularly associated continental breakfast, coffee breaks and welcome reception.

CNS 2020 Annual Meeting Registration Rates:
 
 
 
Registration
Rates:

Early Bird Registration
Paid by  
January 14, 2020   
 

Regular Registration
Paid by
February 23, 2020

Late/On-Site Registration
Paid after
February 23, 2020
Student Member
$180
$205
$225
Post doc Member
$320
$355
$380
Faculty Member
$430
$455
$480
Non-member
$530
$555
$580
 
*all fees are in US Dollars
 
 
 
Or click here to register: https://www.cogneurosociety.org/registration

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CNS 2020 | Printed Program Booklet

The CNS 2020 Annual Meeting Program Booklet is  now available for download in PDF format. 

CNS 2020 Abstract Book Coming Soon!

 


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CNS 2020 | Workshops & Special Events!

Neuroaesthetics Social
Sunday, March 15, 2020, 12:15 - 1:15 PM,  Hampton Room

This social meeting brings together researchers interested in understanding the neural basis of aesthetic responses, such as when artwork, music, dance or landscapes are experienced as beautiful. We will highlight aesthetics research being presented at CNS in a "Data Blitz" session, followed by an open discussion and time to socialize.

Need to Know News from NIH about Grant Applications and Opportunities
Monday, March 16, 2020, 12:15 - 1:15 PM, Back Bay A&B
Speakers: Kathy Mann Koepke, NICHD/NIH, Dr. Dana Plude, NIA

NIH Program Directors present news you need to find your best research fit for training, career, or research grants; NIH contacts for more guidance; overview of application, review, funding processes.
UPDATE! NEED TO KNOW: new FOAs & Notices, BESH research, & clinical trials news. Also find us throughout the meeting.

CNS Trainee Professional Development Panel
Monday, March 16, 2020, 6:15 - 7:45 PM,  Constitution Ballroom

CNSTA Professional Development Panel Organizers: Alexandra Gaynor, (CUNY Graduate Center), Alexander Simon (UC San Francisco) and the CNSTA Committee Officers.

Join the CNSTA 5th Annual Professional Development Panel to learn about the unique career trajectories of cognitive neuroscientists in academia and industry!  Panelists this year are Dr Mariam Aly (Columbia University), Dr. Kara Blacker (Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory), Dr. Amy Janes (Harvard Medical School), Dr. Robert Ross (University of New Hampshire) and Dr. Theodore Zanto (UC San Francisco)

Join us immediately after the panel for the  CNSTA Trainee Social to be held at Dillon's (4955 Boylston St, Boston, MA, 02115 -  3 minute walk from the Sheraton).

CNS Student Trainee Social
Monday, March 16, 2020, 8:00 - 10:00 PM, Dillon's located at
955 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02115

CNSTA Social Organizers:  Alexandra Gaynor, (CUNY Graduate Center) and Alexander Simon (UC San Francisco).

This event is open to all students and post docs of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Come and join us for the annual CNS Trainee Association (CNSTA) Student Social Night, Monday, March 16th, after the  CNS Trainee Professional Development Panel. We will meet in front of the exit to the Constitution Ballroom immediately following the panel (7:45 or 7:50 pm) to go to the 8:00 pm start of the Social. There will be no cover charge, appetizers will be provided for the first 150 Trainees (cash bar). More information will be posted on the CNS 

Trainee Association Facebook page ( https://www.facebook.com/CNSTrainees/. We look forward to meeting you!

HOW TO GET THERE:
From the Sheraton:
* Head west on Belvidere St toward Dalton St
* Turn Right onto Dalton St
* Turn Left onto Boylston St
* Destination will be on your right at 955 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02115

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CNS 2020 | Keynote Address

" Origins of Human Cooperation"
Saturday, March 14, 2020, in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Boston Hotel

Speaker: Michael Tomasello, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Humans are biologically adapted for cultural life in ways that other primates are not. Humans have unique motivations and cognitive skills for sharing emotions, experience, and collaborative goals (shared intentionality).  The motivations and skills involved first emerge in human ontogeny at around one year of age, as infants begin to participate with other persons in various kinds of collaborative and joint attentional activities, including linguistic communication. Our nearest primate relatives understand important aspects of intentional action - especially in competitive situations - but they do not seem to have the motivations and cognitive skills necessary to engage in activities involving collaboration, shared intentionality, and, in general, things cultural.

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CNS 2020 | Special Session

" What Makes Us Human? Symposium in Honor of Donald T. Stuss"
Monday, March 16, 2020, in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Boston Hotel

Chair: Brian Levine, Rotman Research Institute
Speakers: Gary Turner, Avinash R. Vaidya, Antonino Vallesi, Shayna Rosenbaum

Donald T. Stuss was one of the foremost contemporary neuropsychologists, world leader in the neuroscientific study of the prefrontal cortex, and founding director of two leading neuroscience institutes (the Rotman Research Institute and the Ontario Brain Institute). Stuss is most known for his clinical-scientific work on the human prefrontal cortex, starting with his seminal studies of prefrontal lobotomy patients, confabulation, and Capgras syndrome in the late 1970's at the Boston VA and the seminal 1986 volume, The Frontal Lobes (with Frank Benson) and continuing through to the present, highlighting the role of the prefrontal cortex in memory, social cognition, and consciousness. Stuss simultaneously contributed major conceptual advances in the areas of assessment, intra-individual variability, traumatic brain injury, rehabilitation, and neurodegenerative disease. Stuss's science always started with clinical observations and was centered on questions central to humanity, such as how we view ourselves and others and how we successfully function in the world. As a key figure who brought the human prefrontal function into the realm of empirical science, Stuss perpetually challenged orthodoxy with a combination of clinical sensitivity and experimental acumen. This symposium highlights of Stuss's contributions from the perspectives of some of his friends and colleagues across the spectrum of clinical and cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging, and cognitive neurology.

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CNS 2020 | Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Awardee  

"Hemispheric Organization for Visual Recognition"
Saturday, March 14, 2020, in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Boston Hotel

Speaker: Marlene Behrmann, T homas S. Baker University Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

Despite the similarity in structure, the hemispheres of the human brain have somewhat different functions. A traditional view of hemispheric organization asserts that there are independent and largely lateralized domain-specific regions in ventral occipitotemporal (VOTC), specialized for the recognition of distinct classes of objects. In this talk, I will offer an alternative account of the organization of the hemispheres, with a specific focus on face and word recognition. This alternative account relies on three computational principles: distributed representations and knowledge, cooperation and competition between representations, and topography and proximity. The crux is that visual recognition results from a network of regions with graded functional specialization, that is distributed across both hemispheres. Specifically, the claim is that face recognition, which is acquired relatively early in life, is processed by VOTC regions in both hemispheres. Once literacy is acquired, word recognition, which is co-lateralized with language areas, primarily engages the left VOTC and, consequently, face recognition is primarily, albeit not exclusively, mediated by the right VOTC. I will present psychological and neural evidence from a range of studies conducted with normal adults and children, as well as from cases with neuropsychological deficits and from cases with hemispherectomy, and will also consider evidence that seems incompatible with this account. Last, I will offer suggestions for future investigations whose findings may further refine this account and enhance our understanding of the cerebral hemispheres.


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CNS 2020 | George A. Miller Awardee  

"Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind"
Sunday, March 15, 2020, in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Boston Hotel

Speaker: Nancy Kanwisher, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, MIT.

The last 20 years of brain imaging research has revealed the functional organization of the human brain in glorious detail, including dozens of cortical regions each of which is specifically engaged in a particular mental task, like recognizing faces, perceiving speech sounds, and understanding the meaning of a sentence. Each of these regions is present, in approximately the same location, in essentially every normal person. This initial rough sketch of the functional organization of the brain counts as real progress, giving us a kind of diagram of the major components of the human mind. But at the same time it is just the barest beginning. Really what our new map of the human brain offers is a vast landscape of new questions. In this talk I will first broadly survey some of the most widely replicated functionally distinctive cortical regions, and then describe ongoing work into three such questions. First, in light of widespread findings that functionally specific cortical regions contain information about "nonpreferred" stimuli,  do some patches of cortex really play a highly specific causal role in processing just one class of stimuli? Second, how does all this complex structure, that is so similar across subjects, arise in development? I will discuss (but not answer) a few recent findings about the developmental origins of cortical specificity, including what appears to be a fusiform face area in the ventral visual pathway of congenitally blind people. Third, I will discuss new modelling results that shed light on why we have the particular functionally specific cortical regions we do, and apparently not others, and why, from a computational point of view, functional specificity might be a good design feature for brains in the first place.

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CNS 2020 | Young Investigator Awardees  

"Developmental tuning of action selection"
Monday, March 16, 2020, in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Boston Hotel 
 
Speaker: Catherine A. Hartley, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University
 
A diverse set of learning, memory, and decision-making processes enable us to respond adaptively to environmental challenges and opportunities. These cognitive processes, supported by dynamic interactions between subcortical and prefrontal circuitry, change markedly from childhood to adulthood. In this talk, I will present work characterizing developmental changes in the cognitive representations and computations engaged to evaluate and select actions as the brain develops.  I will discuss how these changes may optimize behavior for an individual's developmental stage and unique life experiences.
 
 
"Structured reinforcement learning"
Monday, March 16, 2020, in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Boston Hotel  
 
Speaker: Samuel J. Gershman, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Brain Science, Harvard University
 
In this talk, I will survey classical ideas about reinforcement learning in the brain, some of their successes, and the challenges they confront when dealing with real-world complexity. The drive to develop computational solutions to these challenges has led to new insights into the functions of dopamine, the hippocampus, and the prefrontal cortex. A common theme is the need for solutions that exploit structure in the environment.
 
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CNS 2020 | Schedule Overview
*Tentative Subject to Change

Saturday, March 14, 2020
11:30 am - 1:30 pm Exhibitor Check In, Exhibit Hall C
11:30 am - 6:15 pm On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In, Grand Ballroom Foyer
12:30 - 2:00 pm Data Blitz Session 1, Back Bay A&B
Data Blitz Session 2, Back Bay C&D
Data Blitz Session 3, Grand Ballroom
2:00 - 3:00 pm The Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture, Hemispheric Organization for Visual RecognitionMarlene BehrmannCarnegie Mellon University, Grand Ballroom
2:30 - 3:00 pm Poster Session A Set-Up, Exhibit Hall C
2:30 - 6:00 pm Exhibits Open, Exhibit Hall C
3:00 - 3:30 pm
Coffee Service, Exhibit Hall C
3:00 - 5:00 pm Poster Session AExhibit Hall C
5:00 - 6:00 pm Opening Ceremonies & Keynote AddressOrigins of Human CooperationMichael TomaselloDepartment of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC (Q&A to follow), Grand Ballroom
6:00 - 6:15 pm Poster Session A Take-Down, Exhibit Hall C
6:00 - 7:00 pm Welcome ReceptionConstitution & Grand Ballroom Foyer
6:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day - No Entry
 
Sunday, March 15, 2020
7:30 - 8:00 am Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session B Set-up Only, Exhibit Hall C
7:30 am - 5:30 pm On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In, Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:00 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast, Exhibit Hall C
8:00 - 10:00 am Poster Session BExhibit Hall C
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Exhibits Open, Exhibit Hall C
8:30 - 10:00 am Communications Open House, Press Room, Kent
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Invited Symposium 1 - Making Sense Out of Big Data In Cognitive Neuroscience, Deanna M. Barch, Chair, Back Bay ABCD
       10:00 - 10:08 am Introduction
        10:08 - 10:36 am Talk 1: High-Dimensional Structure of Signal and Noise in 20,000 Neuron Recording, Carsen Stringer
       10:36 - 11:04 am Talk 2: Differential Resilience to Perturbation of Circuits with Similar Performance, Eve Marder
       11:04 - 11:32 am Talk 3: Casual Inference with Big Data Sets, Konrad Kording
       11:32 - 12:00 pm Talk 4: Challenges and Opportunities in the Era of Big Data, Randy L. Buckner
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Invited Symposium 2 - The Role of Causal Inference For Perceptual Decisions and Adaptive Behavior, Christoph Kayser, Chair, Grand Ballroom 
       10:00 - 10:08 am Introduction
       10:08 - 10:36 am Talk 1: Inferring Internal Causes of Uncertainty to Improve Decision Making, Rachel Denison
       10:36 - 11:04 am Talk 2: Causal Inference in Reinforcement Learning, Sam Gershman
       11:04 - 11:32 am Talk 3: Causal Inference in Multisensory Perception, Uta Noppeney
       11:32 - 12:00 pm Talk 4: The Persistent Influence of Causal Inference in Multisensory Perception, Christoph Kayser
12:00 - 12:15 am Poster B Take-Down, Exhibit Hall C
12:00 - 1:00 pm Lunch Break (On your own)
12:15 - 1:15 pm Workshop - Neuroaesthetics Social, Hampton Room
12:30 - 1:00 pm  Poster C Set-Up, Exhibit Hall C
1:00 - 3:00 pm Poster Session CExhibit Hall C
2:30 - 3:00 pm Coffee Break, Exhibit Hall C
3:00 - 5:00 pm Symposium 1 - Studying the Mind by Manipulating Brain Networks, Joel Voss, Chair, Constitution Ballroom
       3:00 - 3:08 pm Introduction
       3:08 - 3:34 pm Talk 1: Neurostimulation for Flexible Language-Network Redistribution in Healthy and Lesioned Bra0ins, Gesa Hartwigsen
       3:34 - 4:00 pm Talk 2: Network Stimulation to Test the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex Role in Interference-Based Decision Making, Thorsten Kahnt
       4:00 - 4:26 pm Talk 3: Using the Human Brain Connectome to Identify Brain Circuit Targets for Depression Symptoms, Michael Fox
       4:26 - 4:52 pm Talk 4: Stimulating the Hippocampal Network to Test Episodic Memory Mechanisms, Joel Voss
       4:52 - 5:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
3:00 - 5:00 pm Symposium 2 - Finances and Feelings: The Affective Neuroscience of SES, Martha Farah, Chair, Back Bay A&B 
       3:00 - 3:08 pm Introduction
       3:08 - 3:34 pm Talk 1: Neural Correlates of Poverty Observed in the Human Fetal Brain: Implications for Postnatal Wellbeing, Moriah Thomason
       3:34 - 4:00 pm Talk 2: SES, Early Experience and Brain Development: Informing a Science of Neurodevelopmental Enhancement, Joan Luby
       4:00 - 4:26 pm Talk 3: Executive and Emotion Regulation Networks Associated with Resilience to Poverty and Early Adversity, Robin Nusslock
       4:26 - 4:52 pm Talk 4: Socioeconomic Disadvantage and the Neuroscience of Mother-Infant Attachment, Pilyoung Kim
       4:52 - 5:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
3:00 - 5:00 pm Symposium 3 - Pressing the Play Button: Sequential Neural Replay of Human Memories, Eitan Schechtman, Chair, Back Bay C&D 
       3:00 - 3:08 pm Introduction
       3:08 - 3:34 pm Talk 1: Neural Mechanisms of Human Episodic Memory Formation Across Spatial Scales, Kareem Zaghloul
       3:34 - 4:00 pm Talk 2: Forward Reactivation of Sequential Memory Traces During Sleep, Marit Petzka
       4:00 - 4:26 pm Talk 3: Neural Replay in Model-Based Learning, Yunzhe Liu
       4:26 - 4:52 pm Talk 4: Replay of Human Practice Predicts Early Skill Learning, Leonardo G Cohen
       4:52 - 5:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
3:00 - 5:00 pm Symposium 4 - From Wikipedia Searches to Single Cell Recording: Uncovering the Mechanisms of Information-Seeking, Tali Sharot, Chair, Grand Ballroom
       3:00 - 3:08 pm Introduction
       3:08 - 3:34 pm Talk 1: Using Structure to Explore Efficiently, Eric Schulz
       3:34 - 4:00 pm Talk 2: Hunters, Busybodies, and the Knowledge Network Building Associated with Curiosity, Danielle Basset
       4:00 - 4:26 pm Talk 3: A Neural Network for Information Seeking, Ethan Bromberg-Martin
       4:26 - 4:52 pm Talk 4: Information-Seeking Impairments in Behavioral Addiction as a Novelty Failure, Irene Cogliati Dezza
       4:52 - 5:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
5:00 - 5:15 pm Poster Session C Take-Down, Exhibit Hall C
5:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day - No Entry
5:15 - 6:15 pm 26th Annual George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience LectureFunctional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind, Nancy Kanwisher, McGovern Institute for Brain Research and Machines, MIT, Grand Ballroom
 
Monday, March 16, 2020
7:30 - 8:00 am Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session D Set-Up Only, Exhibit Hall C
8:00 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast, Exhibit Hall C
8:00 - 10:00 am Poster Session DExhibit Hall C
8:00 am - 6:00 pm Exhibits Open, Exhibit Hall C
8:00 am - 5:30 pm On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In, Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:30 - 10:00 am Communications Open House, Press Room, Kent
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Symposium 5 - Development and Plasticity of High-Level Vision and Cognition, Zeynep Saygin, Chair, Constitution Ballroom
       10:00 - 10:08 am Introduction
       10:08 - 10:34 am Talk 1: Connectivity at the Origins of Domain Specificity in the Cortical Face and Place Networks, Daniel Dilks
       10:34 - 11:00 am Talk 2: Category-Selective Visual Regions Have Distinctive Signatures of Structural Connectivity in Infants, Rhodri Cusack
       11:00 - 11:26 am Talk 3: Selectivity Driven by Connectivity: Innate Connectivity Patterns of the Visual Word Form Area, Zeynep Saygin
       11:26 - 11:52 am Talk 4: Congenital Blindness Repurposes Visual Cortices for Higher-Cognition and Changes their Connectivity, Marina Bedny
       11:52 - 12:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Symposium 6 - Moving from a Deficit-Oriented to a Preventive Model in Education: Examining Neural Correlates for Reading Development, Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, Chair, Back Bay A&B
       10:00 - 10:08 am Introduction
       10:08 - 10:34 am Talk 1: Neurobiological Correlates for Environmental Factors Contributing to Future Reading Abilities, Tzipi Kraus
       10:34 - 11:00 am Talk 2: The Typical and Atypical Reading Brain: How a Neurobiological Framework of Reading Development Can Inform Educational Practice and Policy, Nadine Gaab
       11:00 - 11:26 am Talk 3: Functional and Structural Signatures of Dyslexia Before and After Literacy Instruction, Michael Skeide
       11:26 - 11:52 am Talk 4: Precursors of Difficulties Associated with the Developmental Steps Towards Full Literacy, Heikki Lyytinen
       11:52 - 12:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Symposium 7 - Integrating Theory and Data: Using Computational Models to Understand Neuroimaging Data, Brandon Turner, Chair, Back Bay C&D
       10:00 - 10:08 am Introduction
       10:08 - 10:34 am Talk 1: Corticostriatal Computations in Learning and Decision Making, Michael Frank
       10:34 - 11:00 am Talk 2: Mutual Benefits: Combining Reinforcement Learning with Sequential Sampling Models, Birte U. Forstmann
       11:00 - 11:26 am Talk 3: Neurocomputational Mechanisms of Knowledge Acquisition and Generalization, Alison R. Preston
       11:26 - 11:52 am Talk 4: Probabilistic Linking Functions for Mind, Brain, and Behavior, Brandon Turner
       11:52 - 12:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Symposium 8 - The Meeting of Perception and Memory in the Brain, Marc Coutanche, Chair, Grand Ballroom
       10:00 - 10:08 am Introduction
       10:08 - 10:34 am Talk 1: Roles of Perceptual and Conceptual Hierarchies in the Formation of Memories, Marc Coutanche
       10:34 - 11:00 am Talk 2: Distinct Profiles of Perception and Memory in High-Level Visual Cortex, Chris Baker
       11:00 - 11:26 am Talk 3: The Reciprocal Link Between Memory and Visual Exploration, Jennifer Ryan
       11:26 - 11:52 am Talk 4: Past Meets Present: Prediction Error Drives Episodic Memory Updating, Morgan Barense
       11:52 - 12:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
12:00 - 12:15 am Poster Session D Take-Down, Exhibit Hall C
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch Break (On your own)
12:15 - 1:15 pm  Workshop - Need to Know News from NIH about Grant Applications and Opportunities, Back Bay A&B
12:30 - 1:00 pm Poster Session E Set-Up, Exhibit Hall C
1:30 - 2:00 pm YIA 1Developmental tuning of action selection, Catherine HartleyGrand Ballroom 
2:00 - 2:30 pm YIA 2Structured reinforcement learning, Samuel J. GershmanGrand Ballroom
2:30 - 4:30 pm Poster Session EExhibit Hall C
3:30 - 4:00 pm Coffee Service, Exhibit Hall C
4:30 - 5:30 pm Special SessionWhat Makes us Human? Symposium in Honor of Donald T. Stuss, Brian Levine, Chair, Grand Ballroom
6:00 - 6:15 pm Poster Session E Take-Down, Exhibit Hall C
6:15 - 7:45 pm CNS Trainee Professional Development Panel, Constitution Ballroom
6:15 pm Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day - No Entry
8:00 - 10:00 pm CNS Student Trainee Social Night
 
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
7:30 am - 8:00 am Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session F Set-Up Only, Exhibit Hall C
8:00 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast, Exhibit Hall C
8:00 - 10:00 am Poster Session FExhibit Hall C
8:00 am - 12:00 pm Exhibits Open, Exhibit Hall C
8:00 am - 3:00 pm On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In. Grand Ballroom Foyer
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Invited Symposium 3 - Contemporary Approaches To Emotion Representations, Kevin S. LaBar, Chair, Back Bay ABCD
       10:00 - 10:08 am Introduction
       10:08 - 10:36 am Talk 1: Decoding Spontaneous Emotions and Modeling Their Temporal Dynamics from Resting-State fMRI, Kevin S. LaBar
       10:36 - 11:04 am Talk 2: Emotion Schemas are Represented in the Human Visual System: Evidence from fMRI and Convolutional Neural Networks, Tor D. Wager
       11:04 - 11:32 am Talk 3: Mapping the Passions: Insights from Computational and Social Functional Approaches, Dacher Keltner
       11:32 - 12:00 pm Talk 4: Modelling Dynamic Facial Expressions of Emotion Across Cultures Using Data-Driven Methods, Rachael E. Jack
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Invited Symposium 4 - Novel Approaches to Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Jérôme Sallet, Chair, Grand Ballroom
       10:00 - 10:08 am Introduction
       10:08 - 10:36 am Talk 1: Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation Via Temporally Interfering Electric Fields, Nir Grossman
       10:36 - 11:04 am Talk 2: Probing Decision-Making Circuits in Primates Using Transcranial Ultrasound Neuromodulation, Jérôme Sallet
       11:04 - 11:32 am Talk 3: Ultrasonic Modulation of Higher Order Visual Pathways in Humans, Chris Butler
       11:32 - 12:00 pm Talk 4: Noninvasive CNS Modulation Using Ultrasound with or without Blood-Brain Barrier Opening, Elisa Konofagou
11:45 am - 12:00 pm Poster Session F Take-Down, Exhibit Hall C
12:00 pm Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day - No Entry
12:00 - 1:30 pm Lunch Break (On your own)
1:30 - 3:30 pm Symposium 9 - Cortical Gradients and Their Role in Cognition, Daniel Margulies, Chair, Constitution Ballroom
       1:30 - 1:38 pm Introduction
       1:38 - 2:04 pm Talk 1: The Influence of Brain Structure on Typical and Atypical Brain Function, Boris Bernhardt
       2:04 - 2:30 pm Talk 2: Cortical Somatosensory Hierarchical Gradients, Noam Saadon-Grosman
       2:30 - 2:56 pm Talk 3: A Multisensory Perspective on Primary Cortices, Micah Murray
       2:56 - 3:22 pm Talk 4: Neurocognitive Hierarchies as a State Space for On-Going Thought, Jonathan Smallwood
       3:22 - 3:30 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
1:30 - 3:30 pm Symposium 10 - Specifics and Generalities: Beyond the Semantic-Episodic Distinction, Chi Ngo, Chair, Back Bay A&B
       1:30 - 1:38 pm Introduction
       1:38 - 2:04 pm Talk 1: Generalized Knowledge and Episodic Memory in Development, Chi Ngo
       2:04 - 2:30 pm Talk 2: Memory Specificity and Concept Generalization, Dagmar Zeithamova
       2:30 - 2:56 pm Talk 3: Semantic Knowledge Distorts Episodic Memory: Behavioral and Neural Investigations, Alexa Tompary
       2:56- 3:22 pm Talk 4: Neural Signatures of Time and Meaning in Categorized Free Recall, Sean Polyn
       11:32 - 12:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
1:30 - 3:30 pm Symposium 11 - Deep Data: The Contribution of Case Studies and Special Populations in the Era of Big Data, Erez Freud, Chair, Back Bay C&D
       1:30 - 1:38 pm Introduction
       1:38 - 2:04 pm Talk 1: The Role of the Dorsal Pathway in Object Perception, Erez Freud
       2:04 - 2:30 pm Talk 2: Perception and Action without Hands, Ella Striem-Amit
       2:30 - 2:56 pm Talk 3: Pattern Separation Following Denate Gyrus Lesions, Shayna Rosenbaum
       2:56 - 3:22 pm Talk 4: Direct Electrical Stimulation Mapping of Language Pathways During Awake Brain Surgery, Bradford Z. Mahon
       11:32 - 12:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
1:30 - 3:30 pm Symposium 12 - What Determines Category Selectivity in the Cortex? Talia Konkle, Chair, Grand Ballroom
       1:30 - 1:38 pm Introduction
        1:38 - 2:04 pm Talk 1: Cortex is Cortex: Ubiquitous Principles Drive Face-Domain Development, Mike Arcaro
       2:04 - 2:30 pm Talk 2: Category-Selective Regions in Visual Cortex: What are they for? Marius Peelen
       2:30 - 2:56 pm Talk 3: Social Origins of Cortical Face Areas, Rebecca Saxe
       2:56 - 3:22 pm Talk 4: Factors Determining Where Category-Selective Areas Emerge in Visual Cortex, Hans Op de Beeck
       11:32 - 12:00 pm Q&A Period: The Speakers will take Questions from the Audience
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CNS 2020 | Poster & Data Blitz Schedule Now Available 

There are six Poster Sessions, each two hours in length. Please see below for a list of accepted posters.

Poster Session Schedule:

What is a Data Blitz? A Data Blitz is a series of 5-minute talks, each covering just a bite-sized bit of research. It will offer a fast-paced overview of some of the most exciting research presented at this year's poster sessions. See below for a list of accepted Data Blitz presentations.

Data Blitz Session Schedule:
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CNS 2020 | Flight Discount

CNS has secured a special discount for up to 10% off for CNS members traveling to the CNS 2020 Annual Meeting in Boston, MA. See below for airline specific discount codes and booking information.

Reservation Information:
Boston, MA (BOS)
Valid Travel Dates: 3/11/2020 - 3/20/2020

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CNS 2020 Giveaway Winners!
  
Congratulations to all our winners in the CNS 2020 Giveaway contest! The winners are: 

Name: Prize:
Farshad Rafiei Free Upgrade to a Suite
Ryan Law Deep Discount on Hotel Stay
Natsuka Katayama Deep Discount on Hotel Stay
Ian Ballard Deep Discount on Hotel Stay
Keith Bush Deep Discount on Hotel Stay
Jennifer Ryan Deep Discount on Hotel Stay
Courtney Durdle Free Upgrade to Club Level
Matt Traxler Free Upgrade to Club Level
Yasuhiro Sakamoto Free Upgrade to Club Level
Jacqueline Fulvio Free 2020 Annual Meeting Registration
Giwon Bahg Free 2020 Annual Meeting Registration
Kevin Krull Free Membership for a Year
Kirolos Ibrahim Free Membership for a Year
Feng-Kuei Chiang Free Membership for a Year
Allison Wong Free Membership for a Year
Hollis Ratliff Free Membership for a Year
Sarah Shomstein $25 Visa Gift Card
William Dale Stevens $25 Visa Gift Card
David Kadlec $25 Visa Gift Card
Chloe Newbury $25 Visa Gift Card
Sophie Molholm $25 Visa Gift Card
  


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CNS 2020 ANNOUNCEMENTS
LAST CHANCE to Register Early and SAVE!
Workshops & Special Events
Printed Program Booklet - Now Available
Keynote Address
Special Session
Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Awardee
George A. Miller Awardee
Young Investigator Awardees
Schedule Overview
Congratulations to our Giveaway Winners!
DATES & DEADLINES