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CNS 2022 | The 28th Annual George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience (GAM)
Congratulations BJ Casey, our 2022 Annual George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience Awardee. BJ Casey will accept this prestigious award and deliver her lecture in San Francisco, CA April of 2022.
Cognitive Neuroscience in the Age of Discovery
Speaker: BJ Casey, Ph.D., Yale University
Just as the brain changes over the life course to meet unique challenges and make new discoveries at each developmental phase, so too is the field of cognitive neuroscience changing. Over the years, we have seen significant advances in neuroimaging techniques and computational analytics as well as an enormous expansion of open-access data and tools that have broadened the reach of cognitive neuroscience to neighboring fields and broader society. This lecture will highlight how advances in cognitive neuroscience have informed our understanding of how the mind and brain develop, especially during adolescence, and examine how this knowledge informs the treatment of youth in medicine and in the U.S. legal system.
CNS 2022 | The 11th Annual Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award (DCC)
Congratulations John Jonides, our 2022 Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Awardee. John Jonides will accept this prestigious award and deliver his lecture in San Francisco, CA April of 2022.
Resolving Distraction
Speaker: John Jonides, Department of Psychology and Michigan
Neuroscience Institute, University of Michigan
Cognitive control is the exercise of processes that avoid habitual, reflexive, automatic behaviors in the service of reaching goals. A critical implementation of cognitive control is the performance of goal-directed activities in the face of distraction, and considerable distraction comes from salient-but-irrelevant external stimulation. There are many examples of such distraction in daily life, and there are many laboratory tasks that have been used as models of distraction and its resolution. Examples are the Stroop, Simon, Flanker, Anti-Saccade, and the Additional-Singleton tasks in all of which the instructed goal of the tasks is opposed by a tendency to respond to some other feature of the presented stimuli. For example, in the Stroop task, there is a conflict between responding to the hue of a stimulus from the prepotent tendency to respond to the identity of the word itself. Cognitive studies have a very long and rich history of investigating such cases of failures of cognitive control. The vast majority of these studies have relied on measuring response time and accuracy, comparing a condition in which there is conflict between a prepotent response and a goal-directed response versus a condition in which there is not (e.g., RED versus BLUE in the Stroop task). However, there are problems in using these two dependent measures that are well-established (e.g., speed-accuracy trade-offs and reliability of difference scores). We present here a novel technique that treats response time not as a dependent variable, but as an independent variable. Applying this technique to various tasks that have shown effects of distraction has led us to a model of the underlying psychological processes that seem to be involved in many such tasks, thus providing a fruitful framework with which to investigate cognitive control in many situations.
Call for 2022 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 2022 year.
The submission deadline for submitting a nomination is December 16, 2021. Only online submissions will be accepted.
Eligibility
For the 2022 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, 2022
Nominated by another individual (no self nominations will be accepted).
In attendance at the 2022 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). 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:
We are also thrilled to announce that Symposium & Poster Submissions are now open! If you are interested in sharing your knowledge and expertise in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience, please click here for our submissions guidelines and click on the subsequent button to submit your proposal.
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.
• Symposium Submission Deadline, December 15, 2021
• Abstract Submission Deadline January 11,2022
• Datablitz Deadline, January 11,2022
• GSA/PFA Application Deadline, January 11,2022
Please stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks regarding early bird registrations, hotel accommodation and more. Meanwhile, kindly update your contact information by logging in or creating an account at the https://www.cogneurosociety.org to receive the latest updates.
CNS 2022 HOTEL RESERVATIONS
We are now accepting hotel reservations for CNS 2022! All meeting events will be held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco Hotel.
The hotel is offering a special room rate to attendees of the CNS meeting:
$299 Single/Double
* The hotel reservation deadline is April 6, 2022.
