Events
Conferences, summer and spring schools, calls for papers, and talks worth planning around — the field's own event pages remain the source of truth; we link straight to them.
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The Society's 18th annual meeting, covering the neural basis of language across keynote talks, symposia, slide sessions, poster sessions, and awards talks. Keynotes are John O'Keefe, Yanchao Bi, and Roy Hamilton. The early registration rate closed July 15 and the standard rate September 2, 2026; registration is still open.
Call for proposals
Proposals for courses and workshops at the 2027 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, across the language, logic, and computation areas at foundational, introductory, and advanced levels. Preliminary details are due 1 October 2026; the full submission closes 15 October 2026.
Call for papers
Abstracts for talks and posters at Cosyne 2027 in Montréal, reviewed double-blind. Abstracts are accepted until 18 October 2026; selected authors are notified in mid-December 2026, and each accepted abstract's presenting author must register for the meeting by 31 January 2027, 11:59 p.m. EST.
Call for proposals
Proposals to run a symposium at the seventh International Conference on Memory in Glasgow, across experimental psychology, animal and human neuroscience, philosophy, computational modelling, and clinical and applied memory science. The symposia window runs 1 September 2026 to 2 November 2026.
Call for papers
Poster abstracts for the Cognitive Neuroscience Society's 2027 annual meeting in Boston. Submissions opened 1 September 2026 and the poster deadline is 3 November 2026, with accept/reject notifications on 4 December 2026; a late-breaking poster round runs 8 December 2026 to 19 January 2027.
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The 51st annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, a four-day meeting on how children acquire language. Jesse Snedeker (Harvard, Psychology) gives the keynote and Kathryn Schuler (University of Pennsylvania, Linguistics) the plenary. This year introduces a special topic, "Acquiring Rules": how children acquire rules and generalizations across phonology, morphology, syntax, variation, and their interfaces. Attendance is in person or virtual, with keynote, plenary, and symposium sessions livestreamed. The early registration rate runs until October 22, 2026.
Call for proposals
The Psychonomic Society invites proposals for a symposium at the 25th conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, hosted by Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, between August 30 and September 4, 2027. Proposals that are not accepted are passed to the ESCoP program committee for consideration. Proposals are accepted until November 9, 2026.
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The field's largest general neuroscience meeting, running cognition and behavior programming alongside cellular, molecular, and systems work — broader than the cognitive-science-specific meetings, but a place where cognitive neuroscience is well represented. Registration and housing are open. The regular abstract deadline passed earlier in the year; late-breaking abstracts are accepted until September 15, 2026 at 5 p.m. EDT, or until a 2,500-submission cap is reached, whichever comes first.
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One of the largest annual gatherings for experimental psychology and cognitive science, typically drawing several thousand attendees and over a thousand papers and posters.
Call for papers
Paper submissions for the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology's February 18–20, 2027 meeting in Atlanta. The psychology program accepts submissions until November 9, 2026, and the philosophy program until November 20, 2026.
Call for papers
Submissions for symposiums, talks, flash talks, and posters at the 2027 APS Annual Convention in Seattle, May 27–30, 2027, under a single call. Submissions open October 15, 2026 and are accepted until December 1, 2026, 5:00 p.m. ET (22:00 UTC); review notifications follow in early February 2027. All presentation formats require on-site attendance.
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The Experimental Psychology Society's January meeting, hosted at University College London with Adam Parker as local organiser. The program includes the 25th EPS Mid-Career Prize Lecture by Clare Press, with an accompanying symposium organised by Stephen Fleming. Abstract portals for talks and posters opened on September 7, 2026.
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The Linguistic Society of America's annual meeting, in person only for this cycle, with sessions spanning psycholinguistics, semantics, and language acquisition alongside the rest of the field. Abstract submissions for 2027 have already closed.
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The 17th annual conference organized by CEU's Cognitive Development Center, taking paper and poster submissions from across cognitive development. Regular talk, poster, and symposium submissions closed September 7, 2026; workshop and tutorial proposals remain open until October 5, 2026.
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The Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology's annual meeting, which runs separate philosophy and psychology programs under one roof. The society gives the Griffith Memorial Award ($500) for papers by early-career academics, and up to six graduate student grants to accepted presenters.
School
A one-week residential spring school running parallel course tracks across cognitive science, neurobiology, neural computation, artificial intelligence, robotics, and philosophy. The 2027 theme is "Trust, Hope, and Responsible Action."
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The annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience meeting, which brings together researchers from systems neuroscience, computational biology, and related fields to work on the neural basis of behavior and cognition. The meeting is a single-track main meeting of invited talks plus talks and posters selected from double-blind-reviewed abstracts, followed by smaller-group workshops. Abstracts are accepted until 18 October 2026.
Call for papers
The journal Cognitive Processing is opening the first of a new triennial thematic-collection series on spatial cognition, replacing the International Conference on Spatial Cognition that ran in Rome from 2001 to 2024. The inaugural collection's theme is "Agency in spatial cognition," though submissions on any spatial-cognition topic are welcome. Submission is open now and closes March 15, 2027.
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The Cognitive Neuroscience Society's annual meeting — invited symposia, poster sessions, and a keynote, alongside the George A. Miller Award, Distinguished Career Contributions Award, and Young Investigators Award lectures. Poster and symposium submissions are open; see the official page for specific deadlines.
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The 69th Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen, held in the University of Mannheim's baroque palace main building and organized by the chairs of Arndt Bröder (Experimental Psychology), Beatrice Kuhlmann (Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Aging), and Thorsten Meiser (Research Methods and Psychological Assessment). Three days of talks and posters plus pre-conference workshops; submissions are not open yet.
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The Society for Research in Child Development's biennial meeting, running Thursday morning through Saturday afternoon, covering developmental science including cognitive development, language, and learning. The submission deadline for SRCD27 is September 10, 2026 at 11:59 PM ET.
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The Society for Human Sentence Processing's annual conference — the meeting long known as the CUNY Conference — covering psycholinguistics and the real-time comprehension and production of language. The 2027 edition carries a special session on "Cognitive mechanisms of syntactic change throughout the lifespan." Abstracts are due January 15, 2027.
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VSS's annual meeting on vision science broadly construed — perception, attention, and the cognitive and neural basis of seeing — a core adjacent field to cognitive science's own perception research.
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The Association for Psychological Science's annual convention, covering psychological science including cognition, perception, and language. Submissions for all presentation formats open October 15, 2026 and are accepted until December 1, 2026, 5:00 p.m. ET.
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The 30th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, at the Beijing International Convention Center — the main interdisciplinary meeting where consciousness research from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind is presented together.
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The Society for Philosophy and Psychology's annual meeting, where philosophers, psychologists, linguists, and neuroscientists present work on the mind side by side. A preconference runs June 23, 2027, ahead of the main meeting. Organizers are Emily Liquin (University of New Hampshire, Psychology) and Jorge Morales (Duke, Philosophy), with Felix Warneken (University of Michigan) as local organizer. The call for papers and registration details have not been posted yet.
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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping's annual meeting, the main venue for neuroimaging research on the anatomical and functional organization of the human brain, including much of cognitive neuroscience's fMRI, MEG/EEG, and connectivity work. The meeting's timeline lists November 2026 for the content submission site to open, December 2026 as the deadline for content submission and abstract review volunteer applications, registration opening in January 2027, and accept/reject notifications in February 2027.
School
A three-week, fully online summer course in computational neuroscience, taught in Python and organized around pods of roughly 15 students with a dedicated teaching assistant. Full-time commitment — eight hours a day, five days a week. Applications open in February 2027 through the Neuromatch portal.
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The 10th annual Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference, bringing computational modeling, cognitive science, and neuroscience together. Submissions are typically presented as posters, with a subset selected for oral presentation.
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The seventh International Conference on Memory, the field's recurring cross-disciplinary memory meeting, returning after a ten-year hiatus. The program spans experimental psychology, animal and human neuroscience, philosophy, computational modelling, and clinical and applied science, with cross-species and cross-method sessions plus keynotes, debates, and posters. Abstract and talk submission opens 2 November 2026.
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The field's flagship annual meeting returns to an in-person format, following the Society's three-year hybrid/in-person rotation (CogSci 2026 in Rio de Janeiro was the hybrid year). Program chairs are listed on the official page; submission and registration deadlines aren't posted yet.
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A two-week summer school on the interface of linguistics, logic, and computation, running foundational through advanced courses and workshops. The 38th edition, and the first held in Estonia. Registration opens in spring 2027.
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The European Society for Cognitive Psychology's biennial conference, hosted by Babeș-Bolyai University. Nothing is open yet — the call for abstracts, submission deadlines, and registration rates are all still to be announced.
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The field's largest general neuroscience meeting, with cognition and behavior programming alongside cellular, molecular, and systems work. The 2027 dates and city are confirmed; a dedicated meeting page, abstract submission deadlines, and registration details have not yet been announced.
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The 68th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, one of the largest annual gatherings for experimental psychology and cognitive science research.
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The Cognitive Development Society's next meeting, opening with pre-conference workshops, an Early Career Symposium, and a welcome reception. Nothing is open for submission yet — the Early Career Symposium closes July 14, 2027, symposia and papers October 4, 2027, and posters December 13, 2027.
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The field's flagship annual meeting, hosted at the Sheraton Grand Rio Hotel & Resort, with select sessions offering simultaneous Spanish and Portuguese translation. Standard registration closes July 1, 2026; the paper submission window has already closed for this cycle.
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