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Conference announcement: ICON XIII

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We are happy to make the second announcement for the ICON XIII conference, which will take place on 5-8 August 2017 in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Amsterdam is an easily-accessible and progressive city. ICON will take place at the Beurs van Berlage, located in downtown Amsterdam and one of the most beautiful conference venues in Europe!

Visit the website: http://www.icon2017.org

ICON stands for International Conference for Cognitive Neuroscience. ICON has taken place every 2-3 years since 1980. This conference brings together researchers from diverse backgrounds, joined by their interest in studying the relationships amongst brain, mind, and behavior. ICON conferences are always a big success, and 2017 in Amsterdam will follow this same tradition!

Symposia and poster submissions will be open from early 2017, with deadlines of 1 February for symposia and 31 March for posters. Plan your research accordingly!

NEW SYMPOSIA OPTIONS

In addition to standard-format symposia, ICON2017 will feature two novel formats (see “What” and “Submit” links on icon2017.org for more details):

  1. “Hackathons” are computer-based sessions that can involve either a group of people working towards solving a problem, or can be more tutorial-like with the goal of teaching hands-on skills (e.g., using a toolbox or implementing an analysis in Matlab) that can be accomplished in ~2 hours (for longer workshops, consider organizing a satellite).
  2. “Ask-the-experts” is a panel of experts in a topic. No specific lectures are prepared; instead there is an open Q&A session. The focus can be on a theoretical issue, methodological issue, or hotly-debated topic in cognitive neuroscience.

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS/SATELLITES

We welcome pre-conference satellites, and will be happy to advertise them on the ICON website. Note that satellites are independent from ICON in terms of organization, registration, and costs.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss ideas for your satellite, please contact Mike Cohen (mikexcohen@gmail.com) and Birte Forstmann (buforstmann@gmail.com).

FOLLOW US ON TWITTER

For up-to-date announcements before and during the ICON meeting, follow @icon2017 (see also “Media” tab on the website).

http://www.icon2017.org

We look forward to seeing you in beautiful Amsterdam!

Mike X Cohen and Birte Forstmann

Call for NVP symposium proposals

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We invite proposals for the next NVP Mini Symposium, to be held in Fall/Winter 2016. NVP Mini Symposia are small symposia that are organized biannually, in years when the NVP Winter Conference is not held. The symposium topic should be relevant to the field of psychonomics, and consist of three or four talks to fill an afternoon (e.g. 13h-18h). We encourage proposals with special attention to a topic with a strong Dutch tradition. During the coffee break there will be a poster session for graduate students. The symposium will be concluded with drinks and awarding the poster prize.

There will be budget available to invite speakers (max. 1 international speaker). The NVP board can provide assistance in organizing the symposium, e.g. logistics.

Proposals should include:

  • The title of the symposium
  • Organizers and their affiliations
  • The topic’s importance to the discipline of psychonomics (150 words)
  • Suggested speakers (3 or 4)

Deadline for submission is June 30, 2016. Please submit your proposal to submissions@psychonomie.nl. For further information, contact info@psychonomie.nl.

Symposium on multitasking in Groningen

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Dear colleagues and students,

We would like to invite you to join our symposium on Multitasking here in Groningen, The Netherlands, on June 23, 2016.

Multitasking becomes ever more pervasive in everyday life. It is therefore important to have a better understanding of how the human brain processes multiple tasks. This can help us predict whether any given combination of tasks go well together. Furthermore it is important to know the nature of choice in multitasking: when do people choose to take on a secondary task, or decide to switch from one task to another. A better understanding can help to improve human-computer interaction, and to make people aware of how they can improve their own multitasking.

The symposium features a series of talks by international experts in the field and will be concluded with a panel-discussion around the question of what we have learned from research on multitasking and interruptions so far.

Registration is free and open until June 16.

For more information go to http://www.iccm2015.org/multitask/ or send an email to S.K.Mehlhorn@rug.nl.

We are looking forward to seeing you at the symposium!

Katja Mehlhorn & Niels Taatgen

NVP Winterconference Update

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Dear Members of the NVP,

We are happy to announce that this year’s Winter Conference is a record breaker in terms of submitted abstracts. We will sport:

  • 4 keynote lectures
  • 28 symposium presentations
  • 56 oral presentations
  • approx. 170 poster presentations

If you have submitted an abstract, you will be notified by the end of this week (21 November latest) whether your abstract is accepted as a poster or a talk. Please note that because of the high volume of submissions with preference for a talk, and the limited number of time slots for talks, we can only accommodate ~50% of the preferences for talks.

 

EPOS Practical course: “Positive Journal Interactions”

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EPOS Practical course: “Positive Journal Interactions”

Location: Hotel Zuiderduin, Egmond aan Zee

Time: 17 December 9:00 am – 2:00 pm (just before the beginning of the NVP Winter Conference)

Teacher: Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (EJ.Wagenmakers@gmail.com)

Course description: Whether you like it or not, interactions with academic journals are a pivotal part of your scientific career. In this short course Eric-Jan Wagenmakers discusses some guidelines that will help you produce constructive reviews, attractive papers, and compelling cover letters. All concepts are illustrated with concrete, real-life examples. Students are encouraged to send questions for discussion.

Lunch at 17/12 is included. If you need accommodation in the hotel on the 16th, you can make a reservation directly with the hotel for 47.50/pers (twin room) or 65.00/pers (individual room). This price includes breakfast buffet and use of the swimming pool and sauna.

Credit: 1 ECTS

For information on pricing and registration, see http://www.eposgradnet.nl/?page_id=587

Deadline for registration 3 December

EPOS Practical course: “Writing a Grant Proposal”

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EPOS Practical course: “Writing a Grant Proposal”

Location: Hotel Zuiderduin, Egmond aan Zee

Time: 16 December 4:00 pm – 17 December 2:00 pm (just before the beginning of the NVP Winter Conference)

Teachers: Sander Nieuwenhuis & Guido Band (band@fsw.leidenuniv.nl)

After finishing a dissertation, experimental psychologists usually need to acquire their own grant money, either with official granting organizations such as NWO, or with third party (commercial) companies. Chances in application do not only depend on a good proposal and a long publication list, but also on a good preparation, which this workshop is intended to facilitate. In the lecture part of this workshop Sander Nieuwenhuis and Guido Band chart the most relevant grant programs and discuss the do’s and don’ts before, during and after writing the application. In the practical part, the writing skills and presentation skills required for a successful application are trained.

In preparation, and as partial fulfillment for credit, a 2-A4 proposal has to be written in the format of an NWO Rubicon,Veni, or commercial grant application. During the practical part, we discuss the potential for improvement of the applications and participants give a 5-minute oral presentation of their proposal. The organizers are experienced both in writing and in reviewing grant applications for NWO. Target audience: 3rd and 4th year PhD students.

Dinner at 16/12 and Lunch at 17/12 are included, but accommodation in the hotel is not. You can make reservation directly with the hotel for 47.50/pers (twin room) or 65.00/pers (individual room). This price includes breakfast buffet and use of the swimming pool and sauna.

Credit: 1 ECTS

For information on pricing and registration, see http://www.eposgradnet.nl/?page_id=582

Deadline for registration 3 December

Deadline abstract submission NVP extended to 15 October!

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The deadline for submitting your abstract is 15 October. To submit your abstract, go to:

*** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSED ***

You can request either a poster or an oral presentation. Compared to last year posters presentations will receive more time (longer presentations) and space (sessions will take place in two separate rooms).

NVP Winter Conference 2015

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Dear all,
We are pleased to announce the 15th NVP Winter Conference that will take place in Hotel Zuiderduin, Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands from December 17-19, 2015.

This 3-day meeting brings together Dutch and international scientists working on cognition, behavior and the brain, and features plenary sessions, member initiated symposia, poster sessions, four keynote lectures, the awarding of the NVP Disseration Prize, and a social programme.

Call for Abstracts
Registration for the conference is now open. To secure your place and/or to submit an abstract go to:
https://uleidenss.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4T8MdVJkl2Yn3Gl
You can request either a poster or an oral presentation. Compared to last year posters presentations will receive more time (longer presentations) and space (sessions will take place in two separate rooms).

The deadline for abstract submission is October 15th, 2015.
Keynote speakers

The NVP Winter Conference will feature the following keynote speakers:

• Pieter Roelfsema (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience)

• Daniel Wolpert (Cambridge University)
• Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford University)
• Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (University of Amsterdam)
Symposia

The NVP Winter Conference will feature the following symposia:

• Opportunities and Applications of Ultra High-Field MRI in Cognitive Neuroscience
• Predicting human actions: specialized and general mechanisms
• Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
• Knowledge representation and concept learning
• The brain in control
• Towards a cognitive account of human creativity
• Neural Network Profiles and Dynamics Begin to Shed Light on Neurocognitive Aging