Schedule of Events

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Educational Courses

Campus Biotech

4:00 - 7:00 pm

Registration Open

Campus Biotech

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Welcome Reception
Sponsored by State of Geneva and Geneva Convention Bureau

Campus Biotech

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

8:00 am - 6:30 pm

Registration Open

Lise Girardin

8:30 - 9:00 am

Coffee Break

Wangari Maathai and Restaurant

8:45 - 9:00 am

Opening Remarks

Amphitheatre D

9:00 - 10:00 am

Keynote Lecture: John O’Keefe
What the Rodent Hippocampus Can Tell Us About Spatial Language

Amphitheatre D

9:00 am - 6:30 pm

Exhibits Open

Lise Girardin

10:00 - 11:00 am

Slide Session A: Early Development & Structural Maturation

Amphitheatre D

11:00 - 11:30 am

Coffee Break
Sponsored by Cognition (Elsevier)

Wangari Maathai and Restaurant

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Poster Session A

Wangari Maathai and Lise Girardin

1:00 - 2:15 pm

Lunch with a Professor

Salon Sadako Ogata

1:00 - 2:15 pm

Lunch

Restaurant

2:15 - 3:30 pm

Symposium Session 1
How can neural evidence constrain theories of language processing?

Amphitheatre D

3:30 - 4:30 pm

Slide Session B: Fine-Scale Dynamics of Speech Perception

Amphitheatre D

4:30 - 5:00 pm

Coffee Break

Wangari Maathai and Restaurant

4:30 - 6:30 pm

Poster Session B

Wangari Maathai and Lise Girardin

Thursday, October 1, 2026

8:00 am - 6:30 pm

Registration Open

Lise Girardin

8:30 - 9:00 am

Coffee Break

Wangari Maathai and Restaurant

8:30 am - 6:30 pm

Exhibits Open

Lise Girardin

9:00 - 10:45 am

Panel Session
The neural architecture for language and other cognitive domains: an evolutionary perspective Sponsored by the NCCR Evolving Language

Amphitheatre D

10:45 - 11:15 am

Coffee Break

Wangari Maathai and Restaurant

10:45 am - 12:45 pm

Poster Session C

Wangari Maathai and Lise Girardin

12:45 - 2:00 pm

Lunch

Restaurant

12:45 - 2:00 pm

Lunch with a Professor

Salon Sadako Ogata

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Keynote Lecture: Yanchao Bi
Weaving Language and Vision in the Human Brain

Amphitheatre D

3:00 - 4:30 pm

SNL Awards Session
Distinguished Career Award, NoL Best Paper Award, Dissertation Award, and Early Career Award

Amphitheatre D

4:30 - 5:00 pm

Coffee Break

Wangari Maathai and Restaurant

4:30 - 6:30 pm

Poster Session D

Wangari Maathai and Lise Girardin

8:00 - 10:00 pm

Trainee Social

Offsite

Friday, October 2, 2026

8:00 am - 6:30 pm

Registration Open

Lise Girardin

8:30 - 9:00 am

Coffee Break

Wangari Maathai and Restaurant

8:30 am - 4:45 pm

Exhibits Open

Lise Girardin

9:00 - 10:00 am

Keynote Lecture: Roy Hamilton
Stimulating Conversations: Using Noninvasive Neuromodulation Approaches to Characterize the Language System and Treat Aphasia

Amphitheatre D

10:00 - 11:00 am

Slide Session C: Syntax, Semantics, & Network Plasticity

Amphitheatre D

11:00 - 11:30 am

Coffee Break

Wangari Maathai and Restaurant

11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Poster Session E

Wangari Maathai and Lise Girardin

1:00 - 2:15 pm

Lunch with a Professor

Salon Sadako Ogata

1:00 - 2:15 pm

Lunch

Restaurant

2:15 - 2:45 pm

Business Meeting

Amphitheatre D

2:45 - 4:45 pm

Poster Session F

Wangari Maathai and Lise Girardin

4:15 - 4:45 pm

Coffee Break

Wangari Maathai and Restaurant

4:45 - 6:00 pm

Symposium Session 2
Beyond the Visual Word Form Area: Rethinking the Dorsal Stream’s Role in Reading

Amphitheatre D

6:00 - 6:30 pm

Closing Remarks

Amphitheatre D