The CogSci Mind Challenge is ALL NEW for 2026! Choose your format: video, podcast, animation, visual explainer, blog post, and more! New formats. New possibilities. Same challenge: make cognitive science accessible and engaging. Deadline: Aug. 26🗓️ cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-...

Closing the symposium, Roberto Lent presents a new perspective on cognitive reserve, proposing that previously unknown brain connections may help explain neuroplasticity. #CogSci2026

Ramesh Kumar Mishra discusses the future of cognitive science research in India, examining how the field can move beyond diversity and multilingualism toward more locally grounded perspectives. #CogSci2026

Kicking off the ‘(In)efficiency in Cognitive Science Research symposium’, Nayra Rodriguez Soto examines how prenatal exposure to Hurricane Maria and maternal distress may jointly shape child neurodevelopment in Puerto Rico. #CogSci2026

The final Glushko Dissertation Prize talk features Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social, who examines how the tiny movements our eyes make continuously shape visual perception from its earliest moments. #CogSci2026

Aida Ramezani continues the Glushko Dissertation Prize Symposium with research at the intersection of language, AI, and moral cognition, exploring how models can infer changes in moral reasoning from text. #CogSci2026

Next in the Glushko Dissertation Prize Symposium, Alireza Karami @alirezakr.bsky.social explores ‘The Representation of Numerosity in the Human Brain and Machines’, comparing how humans and AI systems perceive and represent quantity. #CogSci2026

Next in the Glushko Dissertation Prize Symposium, Marina Dubova @mdubova.bsky.social presents Cognitive Mechanisms of Discovery, exploring how people generate, evaluate, and refine new ideas and explanations. #CogSci2026

First up in the Glushko Dissertation Prize Symposium: Andrea de Varda @andreadevarda.bsky.social examines what multilingual neural language models can reveal about language and cognition. #CogSci2026

📍 Presenting at #CogSci2026! 📄 Title: Stochastic Parrot See, Stochastic Parrot Do: Hierarchical Sequence Processing Across Artificial and Biological Intelligences ⏰ Virtual Flash Talk Session 46-48: FT.47.8

Julia Hermida delivers the #CogSci2026 keynote, exploring how socioeconomic status shapes cognitive development and what this relationship can teach us about reducing educational and social inequalities.

A look back at a year in the Cognitive Science Society: highlights, milestones, and updates from across the community at the #CogSci2026 Business Meeting.

Good morning #CogSci2026! I’ve got a poster to share with you this afternoon Come on by so we can meet and I can tell you about what I’ve working been with on (together w/ Tom Griffiths @cocoscilab.bsky.social ) rafaelmbatista.com/sycophantic-...

A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI

CogSci 2026 | Poster Session 3

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Wonderful keynote by @hyogweon.bsky.social at #cogsci2026 on "Distinctively human intelligence: Thinking, learning, and communicating about the self". Hyo argues that better understanding how people think about the self is a key ingredient for uncovering what makes us intelligent.

📢 Fabian Parth has presented his poster at #CogSci2026! Congrats Fabi! 🎉

Presenting our work today at #CogSci2026 🎉 Our findings reveal interesting similarities, and important differences, in how humans and modern AI systems explore causal structures. If you're at the conference, come by and say hello! Today 5:30–7:00pm Reasoning session, P3-L-104

Mandana Samiei@mandanas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We recently investigated how humans and AI reason through causal rules: arxiv.org/abs/2606.06464 Accepted at #CogSci2026. We gave adults and LLMs agency to actively experiment using a Blicket causal game, breaking down their process into the iterative loop shown in the following figure:

Thanks to all mentors and mentees who participated in our @cogscisociety.bsky.social Mentorship Lunch at #CogSci2026 in Rio, and kudos to @iakankshagupta.bsky.social for stellar support of the event.

🇧🇷 ABSTRACTION goes to Rio! 🧠🌎 @lauraocchipinti.bsky.social is presenting our research at #CogSci2026, exploring how word concreteness and specificity (two dimensions of Abstraction) differently shape children’s perceptions of clarity and informativeness in written texts. ☀️ #CognitiveScience

Spotted any marmosets at #CogSci2026 yet? Learn more about how they coordinate at my flash talk tomorrow! FT.50.1, July 25 @4pm Rio time

Closing the invited symposium (In)efficiency in Social Cognition and Cooperation, Luz Gonzalez-Gadea explores how children and adolescents respond to social transgressions, and what those responses reveal about cooperation, social norms, and relationships. #CogSci2026

Up next in (In)efficiency in Social Cognition and Cooperation: Joaquín Navajas @joaconavajas.bsky.social examines when discussion improves collective judgment—and when convergence can actually make groups less accurate. #CogSci2026

I’ve created a Collection of papers on @semble.so for #CogSci2026 The collection is not exhaustive but I’ve made it open so anyone can add papers (+ connect it to other work) @cogscisociety.bsky.social @oecs-bot.bsky.social This is such a promising tool—enjoy! semble.so/profile/rafm...

CogSci2026 (by Rafael M Batista) — Semble

Papers presented at CogSci 2026

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Kicking off the invited symposium (In)efficiency in Social Cognition and Cooperation, Katie Slocombe explores whether the ability to share attention extends beyond humans to other primates. #CogSci2026

Now underway at #CogSci2026: the Elman Prize Symposium, ‘Multilingualism: Enhancing Cognitive Science in Theory and Practice’, honoring 2026 prize recipient Matthew Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social.

Come check out the AffCog Lab's work at #CogSci2026 on Friday!

📢 @tamhak.bsky.social has presented her poster at #CogSci2026! Congrats Tamineh! 🎉

I’ll give a flash talk virtually at #CogSci2026 1045-1115 tomorrow(Rio time) on the work “Bounded Adaptive Control by Modeling Linearly and Acting Locally”. We explore how people achieve adaptive multidimensional control given limited computational resources. Feel free to reach out and chat!

good morning!! it's day 2 of #cogsci2026, and we're so excited to hear about new work from Seo-young Lee, Jess Mankewitz, Polina Tvilodub, Jinyi Kuang, and Karla Perez!

Hyowon Gweon @hyogweon.bsky.social delivers her #CogSci2026 keynote, ‘Distinctively Human Intelligence: Thinking, Learning, and Communicating About the Self’, exploring the cognitive foundations of how humans think, learn, and communicate about themselves.

Huge congratulations to the recipient of the 2026 David E. Rumelhart Prize, Douglas Medin! Visit the Rumelhart Prize page on our website to learn more cognitivesciencesociety.org/rumelhart-pr...