Programme

Explore what’s on at the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN) Conference 2026.

Full programme

Download the full programme [PDF 713.45KB].

Keynote speaker:

• , Caltech (USA)

Career Prize Winner talks

Mid-Career Prize Winner symposium

A special symposium in honour of Mid-Career Prize Winner, Jonny Smallwood.

Early Career Prize Winner talk

(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 (ÑÇÖÞÇéÉ«)
  • Linda Geerligs (Radboud University, Netherlands).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).
• 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).