What ' s Popular at #CNS2017?

Memorywins again!Word cloud for 835poster titles at CNS 2017.The 2017Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting will start tomorrow, March 25. To no one ' s surprise, memory is the most popular topic in the bottom-up abstract submission sweepstakes.In contrast, the top-down selections of theCognosenti are light on memory, with a greater emphasis on attention, speech, mind-wandering, and reward.Word cloud for 16 titles/abstracts in fourInvited Symposia.The member-generatedSymposium Sessions are once again memory-centric, but with the key additions of speech, learning, information, and oscillations.Word cloud for 43 titles/abstracts in nineUninvited Symposia.The hot area of the brain this year isOFC, theorbitofrontal cortex.Kicking off the meeting is a new addition to the program, a symposium onBig Ideas in Cognitive Neuroscience, which will focus on language, motor control/action, and (you guessed it) memory:Six speakers, in three pairs, will consider some major challenges and cutting-edge advances, from molecular mechanisms to decoding approaches to network computations. The presentations and debate aim to provide a tentative outline of what might be a productive and ambitious agenda for our fields.Speakers:Charles R. Gallistel (Rutgers University) and Tom ás Ryan (Trinity College Dublin& MIT) on memory.Angela Friederici (Max-Planck-Institute) and Jean-R émi King (NYU) on language.John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins University) and Danielle Bassett (University of Pennsylvan...
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