Schedule of Events

Tentative - Subject to Change

Display  sessions

All times are in Boston time zone (Eastern Time).

Saturday, March 29, 2025 

9:30 am - 6:30 pm

On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In

Registration

Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Data Blitz Session 1

Data Blitz

Grand Ballroom

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Data Blitz Session 2

Data Blitz

Independence Ballroom

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Data Blitz Session 3

Data Blitz

Constitution A

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Data Blitz Session 4

Data Blitz

Constitution B

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Lunch Break (On your own)

Break

On Your Own

12:00 - 2:00 pm

Exhibitor Check In

Exhibits

Grand Ballroom Foyer

12:30 - 1:00 pm

Poster Session A Set-Up

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Slide Session

Slide

Constitution Ballroom

3:00 - 5:00 pm

Poster Session A

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

3:00 - 5:15 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Coffee Service

Break

Back Bay Ballroom

5:00 - 5:15 pm

Poster Session A Take-Down

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

5:00 - 6:00 pm

Keynote Address (Open to the Public)
Adolescent Brain Development: The Importance of Connections, Adriana Galván, Ph.D.

Keynote

Grand Ballroom

5:15 pm - 7:30 am

Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

6:00 - 7:00 pm

Welcome Reception

Social

Grand Ballroom Foyer

Sunday, March 30, 2025 

7:30 - 8:00 am

Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session B Set-up Only

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

7:30 am - 6:30 pm

On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In

Registration

Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00 - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Break

Back Bay Ballroom

8:00 - 10:00 am

Poster Session B

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

8:00 am - 7:15 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Invited Symposium 1
Cognitive functions of replay. Anna Schapiro, Chair

Invited Symposium

Grand Ballroom

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Invited Symposium 2
Advances in lesion methods: Mapping, plasticity, disconnectomics, and more. Lesley Fellows, Chair

Invited Symposium

Constitution Ballroom

11:30 - 11:45 am

Poster Session B Take-Down

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break (On your own)

Break

On Your Own

12:15 - 1:15 pm

NIH Workshop
Grant Expectations: Updates and Roundtable with NIH Staff, Chair: Matt Sutterer

Workshop

Independence Ballroom

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 1
Creating the structure of ongoing experience. James Antony, Chair

Symposium

Grand Ballroom

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 2
New directions in scientific communication in cognitive neuroscience. William Matchin, Chair, Brad Postle, Co-Chair

Symposium

Independence Ballroom

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 3
Healing While Sleeping? How sleep shapes our emotional experiences. Xiaoqing Hu, Chair, Jessica Payne, Co-Chair

Symposium

Constitution A

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 4
Deploying Attention in Real-World Learning Environments within Individual Minds: Contributions from Precision Imaging and Educational Neuroscience. Bruce McCandliss, Chair

Symposium

Constitution B

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Coffee Service

Break

Back Bay Ballroom

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Poster Session C Set-Up

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

4:00 - 5:00 pm

The 30th Annual George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience Lecture
The Hidden Benefits of Sleep and Potential Pathways for Amplifying Them, Ken Paller, Ph.D.

Award

Grand Ballroom

5:00 - 7:00 pm

Poster Session C

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

7:00 - 7:15 pm

Poster Session C Take-Down

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

7:15 pm - 7:30 am

Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

8:00 - 9:00 pm

Pavlov's Dogz
Cantab Lounge Underground located at 738 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139

Social

Cantab Lounge Underground

Monday, March 31, 2025 

7:30 - 8:00 am

Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session D Set-up Only

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

8:00 - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Break

Back Bay Ballroom

8:00 - 10:00 am

Poster Session D

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

8:00 am - 5:30 pm

On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In

Registration

Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:30 - 10:00 am

Communications Open House
Lisa Munoz, Public Information Officer

Press

Conference Room

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Symposium Session 5
Nature and nurture revisited: new insights about core knowledge and visual development across cognitive systems. Gabriel Kreiman, Chair, Elisabetta Versace, Co-Chair

Symposium

Grand Ballroom

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Symposium Session 6
Uncertainty Resolution across Learning, Memory, and Decision-making. Vishnu Murty, Chair

Symposium

Independence Ballroom

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Symposium Session 7
Interactions between the brain's visual and memory systems: recent advances and new perspectives. Adam Steel, Chair, Serra Favila, Co-Chair

Symposium

Constitution A

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Symposium Session 8
Memory in the palm of your hand: New smartphone techniques for measuring emotion and memories of real-life experiences. Elizabeth Goldfarb, Chair

Symposium

Constitution B

11:30 - 11:45 am

Poster Session D Take-Down

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

12:00 - 1:30 pm

Lunch Break (On your own)

Break

On Your Own

12:15 - 1:15 pm

DEI Workshop
Microaggression at the poster session?

Workshop

Independence Ballroom

1:30 - 2:00 pm

Poster Session E Set-Up

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

1:30 - 2:00 pm

Young Investigator Award Lecture

Award

Constitution Ballroom

2:00 - 2:30 pm

Young Investigator Award Lecture

Award

Constitution Ballroom

2:30 - 4:30 pm

Poster Session E

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Coffee Service

Break

Back Bay Ballroom

4:30 - 5:30 pm

The 14th Annual Distinguished Career Contributions Award Lecture
Cognitive Control: From Interacting Hemispheres to Purging Thoughts, Marie T. Banich, Ph.D.

Award

Grand Ballroom

5:30 - 5:45 pm

Poster Session E Take-Down

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

5:45 pm - 7:30 am

Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

7:30 - 9:00 pm

9th Annual CNSTA Professional Development Panel for Trainees

Panel

TBD

7:30 - 10:00 pm

CNS Student Trainee Social Night
Location subject to change

Social

Grand Ballroom

Tuesday, April 1, 2025 

7:30 - 8:00 am

Exhibit Hall Access for Exhibitors/Poster Session F Set-up Only

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

8:00 - 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

Break

Back Bay Ballroom

8:00 - 10:00 am

Exhibits Open

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

8:00 - 10:00 am

Poster Session F

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

8:00 am - 3:00 pm

On-site Registration & Pre-Registration Check In

Registration

Grand Ballroom Foyer

10:00 - 10:15 am

Poster Session F Take-Down

Poster Session

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Invited Symposium 3
100 Years of EEG: Where Are We? Bin He, Chair

Invited Symposium

Grand Ballroom

10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Invited Symposium 4
The Cognitive Thalamus: Thalamocortical Mechanisms in Attention and Cognitive Control. Kai Hwang, Chair

Invited Symposium

Constitution Ballroom

10:15 am - 3:30 pm

Exhibit Hall Closed for the Day

Exhibits

Back Bay Ballroom/Republic Ballroom

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Lunch Break (On your own)

Break

On Your Own

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 9
Decoding spontaneous thought from neural activity. Aaron Kucyi, Chair, Julia Kam, Co-Chair

Symposium

Grand Ballroom

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 10
What can(‘t) oscillations tell us about cognition? Agatha Lenartowicz, Chair

Symposium

Independence Ballroom

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 11
Harnessing virtual reality to study memory and spatial navigation across the lifespan. Tammy Tran, Chair, Rolando Masís-Obando, Co-Chair

Symposium

Constitution A

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 12
Advancing global and local theories of DMN function across cognitive domains. Ajay Satpute, Chair

Symposium

Constitution B

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