Schedule of Events

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Monday, August 3, 2026
8:30 am - 6:15 pm	Registration Open	Registration	Skirball Lobby
9:30 - 10:00 am	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby
10:00 - 11:15 am	Mind Matching	Networking	Kimmel Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
11:00 - 11:45 am	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby
11:00 am - 6:00 pm	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Skirball Lower Lobby
11:30 - 11:45 am	Opening Remarks	Other	Skirball Theater
11:45 am - 12:45 pm	Keynote Lecture: Doris Tsao Representing the visual world: from faces to consciousness	Keynote	Skirball Theater
12:45 - 2:00 pm	Transmitter Mentorship Lunch	Break	Kimmel Center, Rooms 405/406
	Lunch Break	Break	On Your Own
2:00 - 4:00 pm	K&T Keynotes	K&T Keynote	Skirball Theater
4:00 - 4:30 pm	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby
4:30 - 6:15 pm	Adaptive, degenerate, and yet comparable? Rethinking representational comparisons	K&T Tutorial	Skirball Theater
	Putting Dynamics First: State-Space Modelling for Human Neuroscience	K&T Tutorial	Kimmel Center, Grand Hall
	In silico neuroscience: an emerging paradigm for brain discovery	K&T Tutorial	Kimmel Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
6:30 - 9:00 pm	Distributed Bar Crawl	Other	On Your Own
Tuesday, August 4, 2026
8:00 - 8:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby
8:00 am - 6:00 pm	Registration Open	Registration	Skirball Lobby
8:00 am - 6:00 pm	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Skirball Lower Lobby
8:30 - 9:30 am	Keynote Lecture: Brenden M. Lake Using advances in AI to address classic debates in cognitive science	Keynote	Skirball Theater
9:30 - 10:00 am	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby & Kimmel Center, Shorin Room
9:30 - 11:15 am	Poster Session A	Poster	Kimmel Center, Shorin & Rosenthal Rooms
10:15 - 11:15 am	Decision-Making & Cognitive Control	Contributed Talk	Skirball Theater
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Back2NY Event	Panel	Skirball Theater
12:30 - 2:00 pm	Community Networking Lunch	Networking	Kimmel Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
12:30 - 2:00 pm	Lunch Break	Break	On Your Own
2:00 - 3:00 pm	Learning & Memory	Contributed Talk	Skirball Theater
2:00 - 3:45 pm	Poster Session B	Poster	Kimmel Center, Shorin & Rosenthal Rooms
3:15 - 3:45 pm	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby & Kimmel Center, Shorin Room
3:45 - 4:45 pm	Introducing the Three 2026 GAC Debates	GAC	Skirball Theater
5:00 - 6:30 pm	Is NeuroAI adopting the right methods and theoretical frameworks to advance our understanding of mind and brain?	GAC	Skirball Theater
	Representations or Transformations: What Should Models of Neural Population Activity Explain?	GAC	Kimmel Center, Grand Hall
	Do World Models Emerge in Neural Networks Trained for Prediction?	GAC	Kimmel Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
Wednesday, August 5, 2026
8:00 - 8:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby
8:00 am - 4:30 pm	Registration Open	Registration	Skirball Lobby
8:00 am - 4:30 pm	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Skirball Lower Lobby
8:30 - 9:30 am	Keynote Lecture: Alona Fyshe Can a (stochastic) parrot understand you? Contemplating intelligence in the era of LLMs	Keynote	Skirball Theater
9:30 - 10:00 am	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby & Kimmel Center, Shorin Room
9:30 - 11:15 am	Poster Session C	Poster	Kimmel Center, Shorin & Rosenthal Rooms
10:15 - 11:15 am	Theory & Methods	Contributed Talk	Skirball Theater
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Keynote Lecture: Kenji Doya Neural circuits for prediction and action	Keynote	Skirball Theater
12:30 - 2:00 pm	Early-Career Faculty Social Lunch	Break	To Be Determined
	Lunch Break	Break	On Your Own
2:00 - 3:00 pm	Vision	Contributed Talk	Skirball Theater
2:00 - 3:45 pm	Poster Session D	Poster	Kimmel Center, Shorin & Rosenthal Rooms
3:15 - 3:45 pm	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby & Kimmel Center, Shorin Room
4:00 - 5:45 pm	So You Have a Highly Predictive Model, Now What? Translating Neural Encoding Models into Scientific and Engineering Impact	Community Event	Skirball Theater
	Naturalistic problem solving: theories, tasks, and methods	Community Event	Kimmel Center, Grand Hall
	Toward a unified science of perception and memory: empirical foundations and computational frontiers	Community Event	Kimmel Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium
7:00 - 11:59 pm	Social Event	Social	Offsite - Nowadays
8:00 - 9:00 pm	Growing Up in Science	Social	Offsite - Nowadays
Thursday, August 6, 2026
9:00 - 9:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby
9:00 am - 3:00 pm	Exhibits Open	Exhibits	Skirball Lower Lobby
9:00 am - 6:00 pm	Registration Open	Registration	Skirball Lobby
9:30 - 10:30 am	Keynote Lecture: Kalanit Grill-Spector Understanding the human visual system: insights from topographic artificial neural networks and development.	Keynote	Skirball Theater
10:30 - 11:00 am	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby & Kimmel Center, Shorin Room
10:30 am - 12:15 pm	Poster Session E	Poster	Kimmel Center, Shorin & Rosenthal Rooms
11:15 am - 12:15 pm	Language & Audition	Contributed Talk	Skirball Theater
12:15 - 1:45 pm	Lunch Break	Break	On Your Own
1:45 - 2:45 pm	Computational Psychiatry & Development	Contributed Talk	Skirball Theater
1:45 - 3:30 pm	Poster Session F	Poster	Kimmel Center, Shorin & Rosenthal Rooms
3:00 - 3:30 pm	Coffee Break	Break	Skirball Lower Lobby & Kimmel Center, Shorin Room
3:30 - 4:15 pm	Community Meeting	Other	Skirball Theater