{"id":13897,"date":"2026-03-21T22:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/?p=13897"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:09:13","slug":"cognitive-neuroscience-society-meeting-vancouver-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/cognitive-neuroscience-society-meeting-vancouver-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting \u2014 Vancouver 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS)<\/a> is a scientific society dedicated to advancing research on the psychological, computational, and neuroscientific foundations of human cognition. Founded in 1994 by six scientists, including Michael Gazzaniga \u2014 who also helped coin the term “cognitive neuroscience” in the back of a New York City taxi in the 1970s<\/a>! \u2014 CNS now counts more than 2,000 members worldwide. Its official journal is the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience<\/a><\/em>, published by MIT Press \u2014 a journal Pascale knows well, as she serves as one of its Associate Editors.<\/span><\/p><\/div>

Cognitive neuroscience is a relatively young scientific discipline, born officially in the 1970s, well after psychology, biology, or linguistics. Research in this field seeks to understand the brain mechanisms underlying mental functions in healthy individuals (and in patients as well): memory, attention, speech and language, perception, decision-making, motor planning, and many others. By combining tools such as neuroimaging (MRI, EEG), non-invasive brain stimulation, and rigorous experimental methods, research teams work to unravel the complex links between brain activity and human behaviour. Our lab’s work fits squarely within this discipline: understanding how the brain produces and perceives language and its associated mechanisms \u2014 such as auditory attention \u2014 how these mechanisms change with age, and how we can preserve or enhance them by supporting brain health.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Figure 2. The poster presented at CNS<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Each year, the CNS annual meeting brings together researchers from around the world to share the latest advances in the field. This year, the conference was held in Vancouver and drew more than 1,000 participants \u2014 students and seasoned researchers alike \u2014 for four days of talks, poster sessions, scientific exchanges, and above all, learning and reflection.<\/span><\/p><\/div>

Last year, it was Alexandre who represented the lab at CNS. This year, it was Pascale, the lab’s director, who made the trip to British Columbia \u2014 and for a very special occasion! She presented alongside her long-time colleague and friend Monika Molnar<\/a>, a professor at the University of Toronto \u2014 with whom she completed her PhD at McGill University \u2014 the results of their very first scientific collaboration\u2026 after more than twenty years of friendship. Better late than never <\/span>\ud83e\udd23<\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/div>

Their poster, entitled “Neural Signatures of Language and Cognition in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: Insights from Meta-analyses of Pediatric Neuroimaging Studies”<\/em>, explores the neural bases of language and cognition in bilingual and monolingual children, drawing on a rigorous synthesis of pediatric neuroimaging studies (MRI and fNIRS) conducted by Kai Leung, a doctoral student supervised by Monika. This work has just been accepted for publication in the journal Aperture Neuro<\/em>!<\/span><\/p><\/div>

The full article can be downloaded by clicking here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Figure 3. Monika presenting the poster at CNS<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Beyond the presentations, the conference was an opportunity to connect with colleagues, discover new research directions through the talks, and celebrate the reunion with Maxime Perron, a former lab member recently hired as a professor in audiology at the University of Ottawa, following a PhD and a postdoctoral fellowship in Toronto. Congratulations, Maxime \u2014 the whole team is very proud of you! <\/span>\ud83c\udf89<\/span><\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Suggested readings:<\/h4>
  1. Alexandre\u2019s Project Presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting\u00a0<\/a><\/li>
  2. Life of a researcher<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>
  3. Pascale presents our work at the \u201cNeurosciences and Music VIII\u201d congress in Helsinki, Finland\u00a0<\/a><\/li>
  4. NeuroQu\u00e9bec Scientific Day 2026\u00a0<\/a><\/li>
  5. Conference on the neurobiology of language<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>
  6. Participation in the annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>
  7. Marc-Andr\u00e9 at the CRBLM<\/a><\/li>
  8. CERVO Scientific Day 2024\u00a0<\/a><\/li>
  9. CERVO Scientific Day 2025<\/a><\/li>
  10. Xiyue Zhang’s Thesis Defense<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>
  11. Maxime\u2019s brain<\/a>\u00a0<\/li>
  12. New scientific article about the history of the neurobiology of speech and language\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A major international conference bringing together over 1,000 people interested in the links between the brain and the human mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293],"tags":[88],"ppma_author":[54],"class_list":["post-13897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-recherche"],"authors":[{"term_id":54,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"admin-pascale","display_name":"Pascale Tremblay","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea9e5826afc1fd507cc7b89eaca37953ea310ad30088c3920137ab8e86846244?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Tremblay","first_name":"Pascale","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13897"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13919,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions\/13919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speechneurolab.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}