 for your favorite Symposium!
Vote for the Symposium you'd most like to see at the CNS 2021 Virtual Meeting. The symposium committee will use your input, along with their own review, to select the eight best symposia for presentation at CNS 2021. Voting deadline is Wednesday, November 11, 2020 (11:59PM latest time zone on earth). You must be a current CNS member to vote.
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CNS 2021 | Call for Young Investigator Award Nominations
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the Young Investigator Awards in Cognitive Neuroscience for the 2021 year. 
The submission deadline for submitting a nomination is November 13, 2020. Only online submissions will be accepted.
Eligibility
For the 2021 awards, the nominee MUST be: - Working in any area of cognitive neuroscience (broadly defined).
- No more than 10 years from the receipt of their doctoral degree as of January 1, 2021
- Nominated by another individual (no self nominations will be accepted).
- In attendance at the 2021 meeting to accept the award in person and must agree to give a special lecture.
Consideration will be given to applicants who have taken an institutionally approved childbearing or parental leave (2 year limit). Documentation from the appropriate department head, university or institutional official is required with the application in order for eligibility to be determined based on time since receiving the doctoral degree. Also, the residency years for M.D.'s and clinical internship year for Clinical Psychology Ph.D.'s will not be counted against the 10 year limit.
Submitting a Nomination Before submitting a nomination, collect the required materials: - Contact information for the nominee.
- A PDF or Word Document of the nominee's CV.
- A short (max 600) word statement of the nominee's research program.
- A PDF or Word Document of a significant publication representative of the nominee's work.
- Bibliographic citations for the publication above AND 4 additional representative publications.
- A PDF or Word Document of a nomination statement from the primary referee (you).
- Contact information for a second referee.
- A PDF or Word Document of a nomination statement from the second referee.
If you have questions about the nomination process, please contact Kate Tretheway.
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Poster Submissions are open for CNS 2021.
If you want to be considered for a data blitz session please check the appropriate box during the poster submission process.
If you are a grad student or postdoc you can apply for a Graduate Student Award (GSA) or a Postdoctoral Fellows Award (PFA) as part of the poster abstract submission process. At least two submissions in each topic area will be recognized with a GSA or a PFA award. Abstracts will be evaluated with respect to the merit of the research and the clarity of the presentation. Winners will receive special recognition in the program and during the conference. Winners will also receive a monetary stipend to help with conference expenses.
Submissions Deadlines:
- Poster Submissions Deadline, November 24, 2020
- Datablitz Deadline, November 24, 2020
- GSA/PFA Application Deadline, November 24, 2020
For more information on Data Blitz please visit:
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CNS 2021 | Invited-Symposium Sessions
"NEURAL NETWORKS IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE"
Co-Chaired by Christopher Summerfield, University of Oxford & Google DeepMind & Grace Lindsay, University College London Speakers: Grace Lindsay, Robert Yang, Talia Konkle and Chris Summerfield Deep learning models have powered recent progress in AI research, and neuroscientists are increasingly looking (once again) to neural networks as computational theories of perception and cognition. In this symposium, we consider recent work in which neural networks have shed light on the mechanisms that underlie higher cognition, including attention and working memory, task-level control, numerical cognition, and abstract reasoning. TALK 1: Exploring the Top-down Signals Needed for Visual Attention, Grace Lindsay, University College London
TALK 2: How to Study Cognition with Recurrent Neural Networks, Robert Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology TALK 3: How do Neural Networks Learn Object Categories? Talia Konkle, Harvard University TALK 4: Neural Structure Alignment in Humans and Neural Networks, Chris Summerfield, University of Oxford & Google DeepMind "HOW PRIOR KNOWLEDGE SHAPES ENCODING OF NEW MEMORIES" Co-Chaired by Rik Henson and Andrea Greve, University of Cambridge Speakers: Morris Moscovitch, Alison R. Preston, Qihong Lu, Andrea Greve New memories are not written on a tabula rasa: rather, they are shaped by what we already know. In this symposium, the speakers will discuss how prior knowledge (such as a schema or situation model) influences the encoding of new episodic memories, drawing on a range of behavioral, neuroimaging and computational evidence.
TALK 1: The influence of neural context and reinstatement of prior knowledge (schemas) on encoding, Morris Moscovitch and Asaf Gilboa, University of Toronto TALK 2: Hippocampal-medial prefrontal interactions guide how existing memories bias new learning, Alison R. Preston, The University of Texas at Austin TALK 3: Modeling when episodic encoding should take place to support event prediction, Qihong Lu, Princeton University TALK 4: Schema and prediction error in episodic memory encoding, Andrea Greve, University of Cambridge More coming soon!
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CNS 2021 | Keynote Address
 " The Immediate and Long-term effects of Physical Activity on the Human Brain"
Dr. Wendy Suzuki, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, New York University
Dr. Wendy Suzuki received her undergraduate degree in physiology and human anatomy at the University of California, Berkeley in 1987 studying with Prof. Marion C. Diamond, a leader in the field of brain plasticity. She went on to earn her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from U.C. San Diego in 1993 and completed apost-doctoral fellowship at the National Institutes of Health before accepting her faculty position at New York University in 1998.
Her major research interest continues to be brain plasticity. She is best known for her extensive work studying areas in the brain critical for our ability to form and retain new long-term memories. More recently her work has focused on understanding how aerobic exercise can be used to improve learning, memory and higher cognitive abilities in humans. Wendy is passionate about teaching ( see her courses), about exercise ( intenSati), and about supporting and mentoring up and coming scientists.
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CNS 2021 | Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award Winner
Congratulations to Robert Desimone, Ph.D., McGovern Institute, on being this year's recipient of the Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award.
 Robert Desimone is director of the McGovern Institute and the Doris and Don Berkey Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Prior to joining the McGovern Institute in 2004, he was director of the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Mental Health, the largest mental health research center in the world.
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CNS 2021 | George A. Miller Award Winner
Congratulations to Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D., Harvard University, on being this year's recipient of the George A.Miller Award.
 Elizabeth Phelps received her PhD from Princeton University and served on the faculty of Yale University and New York University. Professor Phelps is the recipient of the 21st Century Scientist Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society, and the William James Award from the Association for Psychological Science. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society for Experimental Psychology, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Neuroeconomics, and was a founding board member of the Society for Neuroethics. She has previously served as President of the Society for Neuroeconomics, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society.
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Registration for CNS 2021 Virtual Meeting is Now Open! Registration includes admission to all Scientific Sessions including Keynote Session, Invited Symposia, Symposia, Awards, Poster Sessions.
CNS 2021 Annual Meeting Registration Rates:
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CNS 2021 | Virtual Meeting
 We invite you to join the CNS 2021 Virtual Meeting, March 13-16, 2021.
Experience CNS 2021 in a whole new virtual way with access to all meeting events, including keynote and award talks, symposia, data blitz talks, posters, exhibitors, and live chats during the March 13-16, 2021 conference, and limited later "on-demand" viewing. Don't forget to share our flyer, you can download and print, or send to friends and colleagues electronically!
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Symposia Voting Deadline
November 11, 2020
Young Investigator Award Nomination Deadline
November 13, 2020
Poster Submission Deadline
November 24, 2020
PFA Application Deadline
November 24, 2020
GSA Application Deadline
November 24, 2020
Data Blitz Submission Deadline
November 24, 2020
Early Registration Rate Deadline
January 12, 2021
Regular Registration Rate Deadline
February 22, 2021
CNS 2021 Virtual Meeting
March 13-16, 2021
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