Satellite Events
Metacognitive Science
This satellite meeting showcases the latest research on metacognition, in the form of both keynotes and short oral presentations. We aim to be a venue for interdisciplinary discussions around all aspects of metacognition, cross-cutting psychology, neuroscience, philosophy and computer science. Our community represents an entirely new model of scientific community building: a roving satellite meeting, designed to approach and synergistically mingle with relevant scientific communities across philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence on an annual cycle. We aim to join a different meeting every year to best benefit from and foster interdisciplinary community building.
Date: August 2, 2026
Location: Hess Center for Science and Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Registration: free but please do sign up because we may have to give a list of registrants to a security guard.
Link for details and registration: www.metacognitivescience.org
Forks in the Road: Developmental Trajectories and Symptom Dynamics in Psychopathology
Mental health disorders are inherently dynamic. From the developmental processes that shape vulnerability, to the onset and presentation of symptoms, to the course of illness and treatment responsiveness, perturbations to neural and behavioral systems unfold across time in ways that remain poorly understood. A deeper understanding of these dynamics will both inform mechanistic insights and clinical applications.
Our mini-symposium features scientists leveraging computational cognitive neuroscience methods to study development and illuminate the dynamics underlying the origin, emergence, presentation, course, and treatment of mental health disorders.
Date: August 2, 2026
Location: Hess Center for Science and Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Registration: free but please do sign up because we may have to give a list of registrants to a security guard.
Link for details and registration: https://sites.google.com/view/forksintheroad
Beyond curated datasets: Learning representations from children’s everyday experiences
A central goal of cognitive computational neuroscience is to understand how structured neural and behavioral representations emerge from everyday, real-world experience. Yet most current models are trained and evaluated on curated datasets — collections of images, videos, and text disconnected from the temporal and embodied nature of how we actually experience the world.
Models trained on curated datasets achieve striking accuracy in predicting neural and behavioral responses to other curated datasets, but they often fail when asked to learn from, or generalize to, more naturalistic data. This satellite event highlights new methods for characterizing the learning environment available to young children, and new modeling approaches that can learn from these messy yet structured data.
This workshop will explore the idea that moving beyond curated datasets is essential to improve our understanding of human learning.
Date: August 2, 2026
Location: Hess Center for Science and Medicine, The Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Link for details and registration: https://vislearnlab.github.io/ccn-satellite-egocentric-learning/