Programme
Explore what’s on at the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN) Conference 2026.
Preliminary programme
Join us from Wednesday 2-Thursday 3 September 2026 for a conference where cognitive neuroscience researchers come together to share knowledge and network. Explore the full programme below.
Career talks
Mid-Career Prize Winner symposium
A special symposium in honour of Mid-Career Prize Winner, Jonny Smallwood.
Early Career Prize Winner talk
Camilla Nord (University of Cambridge).
Symposiums
This year, we’re offering five symposiums, including the following.
- How the brain processes real-world experiences
Featuring speakers including:
- Ariel Goldstein (University of Cambridge)
- Avital Hahamy (University College London)
- Chris Bird (ßÏßÏÊÓƵ)
- Linda Geerligs (Radboud University, Netherlands).
- How replicable are influential EEG findings? Early results from #EEGManyLabs
Featuring speakers including:
- Amy Bland (Manchester Metropolitan University)
- Martin Constant (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
- Katharina Paul (University of Hamburg, Germany)
- Domenica Veniero (University of Nottingham).
- 30 years of ‘Memory Processes, Brain Oscillations and EEG Synchronisation’
A symposium to honour Wolfgang Klimesch’s contribution to cognitive electrophysiology.
Featuring speakers including:
- Gemma Learmonth (University of Stirling)
- Ole Jensen (University of Oxford)
- Ying Yao (University of Glasgow)
- Tzvetan Popov (University of Konstanz).
- All you need is sleep! The multifaceted role of sleep in health and cognition
Featuring speakers including:
- Helge Gillmeister (University of Essex)
- Anna Guttesen (University of Oxford)
- Pin-Chun Chen (Royal Holloway, University of London)
- Hong-Viet, Ngo-Dehning (University of Essex).
- The episodic-semantic distinction: time to reconsider?
Featuring speakers including:
- Roni Tibon (University of Nottingham)
- Louis Renoult (University of East Anglia)
- Dominika Vargha (Birkbeck College)
- Beth Jefferies (University of York).