Other

Generative Adversarial Collaborations

Wednesday, August 13, University of Amsterdam, REC-A building (main CCN 2025 conference venue)

What Benchmarks are Useful for Cognitive Science?

Organizers: Susanne Haridi, Marcel Binz, Rodrigo Carrasco-Davis, Clementine Domine, Erin Grant, Alireza Modirshanechi

Speakers: Wilka Carvalho, Jacqueline Gottlieb, Klaus Oberauer, Gemma Roig, Martin Schrimpf, Greta Tuckute, Britta Westner

What shapes the ventral visual system in infancy - innate biases or experience?

Organizers: Marieke Mur, Talia Konkle, Dan Yamins, Moritz Köster, Michael Arcaro, Daniel Dilks, Nick Turk-Browne, Rebecca Saxe, Rhodri Cusack

Clarifying and reconciling different perspectives on the structure of the neural code

Organizers: Meenakshi Khosla, Nancy Kanwisher, Stefano Fusi, Niko Kriegeskorte, Tatiana Engel, Marcus Benna, David Klindt, Carsen Stringer

Local Meetups

This year, CCN is happy to complement our in-person conference with distributed, local meetups for those who are not travelling to Amsterdam. We provide the livestream, you host the event: simply book a room in your institution, fill out the form below, and get together with colleagues to watch and discuss the best science. You can of course add social events, local scientific events, or additional talks to your meetup if you like.

Disclaimer

CCN 2025 meetups are recommended to improve community involvement and experience with the conference but ultimately are organized and hosted by individuals. You are responsible for deciding whether to take part in a local meetup as a host or participant, including your own assessment of the host and the location’s safety and suitability. CCN does not organize meetups, and cannot be held liable for activities or consequences of local meetups; this includes health and safety consequences. If you have concerns about a meetup host or location, either before the conference or afterwards, please provide details of your concerns via email to .

Q: Is it a lot of work to host a meetup?

A: It is entirely up to you. The most bare-bones is simply to book a lecture hall/meeting space, turn on the CCN livestream channel, and watch together. You can choose to add food/drinks, opportunities for socializing, or even local scientific events (such a poster session or short talks). This is entirely up to you; make sure to communicate to your participants what they can expect.

Q: I would like to host, but my timezone means we would have to watch in the middle of the night.

A: It is up to you how you time your meetup - you can also choose to watch the recorded talks back during your day or even make a selection rather than watch all talks.

Register here to sign up as a meetup host: https://forms.gle/XKAx66MrwVUkfjuo9. Please first check on the map if there is not already a meetup near you, and consider teaming up.

Check out this map to view all currently registered meetups - click on any meetup for registration details!

Caregiver Award

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative for CCN 2025 to help offset costs of childcare at the annual meeting. These funds will make it easier for members with children to attend a wider range of meeting events.

Value: Up to $500 per family. In the event that the number of requests exceeds the funding available, preference will be given to applicants in the early stages of their careers.

Number: 6 awards.

Use of Funds

Recipients can use funds to support childcare in the form that best serves the family. Due to logistical constraints, CCN will not be offering an in-house childcare program. Recipients will be responsible for organizing their own childcare solutions.

Eligible expenses for the budget can include:

Third party dependent care services for the duration of the conference
Travel costs for the designated caregiver
Per diem of up to $50/day for the designated caregiver

Recommended Childcare Services

The Local Organizing Committee recommends 24nannies, a Netherlands-based but globally oriented childcare service, for parents looking to hire babysitters or nannies during CCN in Amsterdam.

How to Apply

Applications for Childcare Awards are Closed. Awardees will be notified by email by June 15 20.

Travel Awards

We are a community-centered conference, bringing together scientists from around the world. However, the cost of travel and attendance can be a significant barrier, often preventing talented researchers from participating in the conference.

To help address this, we are proud to introduce a travel award intended to support researchers from under-represented groups around the world to attend CCN. The award serves two complementary goals: to reduce financial barriers for early-career researchers (especially those who might otherwise not be able to participate), and to recognize promising scientists in our community.

Value: $500. In the event that the number of requests exceeds the funding available, preference will be given to applicants in the early stages of their careers.

Number: 6 awards.

How to Apply

Applications for Travel Awards are Closed. Awardees will be notified by email by June 15 20.

Schedule of Events

This schedule provides a general overview of the program.
Please note that it is tentative, and additional details will be provided soon.

Schedule of Events

Monday, August 11, 2025
11:30 am - 6:00 pm	Satellite Events	Other	Building A
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
8:00 am - 5:30 pm	Registration Open	Registration	A Hall
9:00 - 9:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	A Hall
9:30 - 10:45 am	Mind Matching	Networking	Building E (restaurant)
10:45 - 11:15 am	Coffee Break	Break	A Hall
11:15 - 11:30 am	Opening Remarks	Other	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)
11:30 am - 12:30 pm	Keynote Lecture: Hava Siegelmann	Keynote	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)
1:30 - 4:30 pm	Poster Session A and coffee	Poster Session	de Brug & E-Hall
4:30 - 5:30 pm	Keynote Lecture: Anna Schapiro Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time	Keynote	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)
6:00 - 7:30 pm	Welcome Reception	Social	Hotel Arena
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
7:30 am - 6:00 pm	Registration Open	Registration	A Hall
8:00 - 8:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	A Hall
8:30 - 9:30 am	Keynote Lecture: Yasuo Kuniyoshi From Embodiment To Super-Embodiment: A Constructive Approach To Open-Ended And Human Aligned Intelligence/Moral	Keynote	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)
9:30 - 10:00 am	Coffee Break	Break	A Hall
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Naturalistic Games as a Benchmark to Bridge Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience and AI: A Community Led, Round-Table Discussion	Community Event	Room TBA
	Conversations on Consciousness: How the CCN Community Can Contribute	Community Event	Room TBA
	Universality and Idiosyncrasy of Perceptual Representations	Community Event	Room TBA
1:00 - 4:00 pm	Poster Session B and coffee	Poster Session	de Brug & E-Hall
4:00 - 6:30 pm	Generative Adversarial Collaborations	GAC	Room TBA
Thursday, August 14, 2025
7:30 am - 6:00 pm	Registration Open	Registration	A Hall
8:00 - 8:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	A Hall
8:30 - 9:30 am	Keynote Lecture: David Poeppel	Keynote	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)
9:30 - 10:00 am	Coffee Break	Break	A Hall
10:00 am - 12:00 pm	Contributed Talks I	Talks	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)
12:15 - 1:45 pm	Networking Lunch	Networking	A0.01, after that Building E (restaurant)
1:45 - 3:45 pm	Language: In search of a neural code	K&T Keynote	Room TBA
	Uncovering algorithms of visual cognition with multilevel computational theories	K&T Keynote	Room TBA
	Digital Brain Models for Working Memory	K&T Keynote	Room TBA
3:45 - 4:15 pm	Coffee Break	Break	A Hall
4:15 - 6:00 pm	Representational Alignment (Re^3-Align Collaborative Hackathon)	Community Event	Room TBA
4:15 - 6:00 pm	Language: In search of a neural code	K&T Tutorial	Room TBA
	Uncovering algorithms of visual cognition with multilevel computational theories	K&T Tutorial	Room TBA
	Digital Brain Models for Working Memory	K&T Tutorial	Room TBA
7:00 pm - 12:00 am	Social Event	Social	Ijver
Friday, August 15, 2025
8:30 am - 6:00 pm	Registration Open	Registration	A Hall
9:00 - 9:30 am	Coffee Break	Break	A Hall
9:30 - 10:30 am	Keynote Lecture: Ellie Pavlick	Keynote	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)
10:30 - 11:00 am	Coffee Break	Break	A Hall
11:00 am - 1:00 pm	Contributed Talks II	Other	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)
2:00 - 5:00 pm	Poster Session C and coffee	Poster Session	de Brug & E-Hall
5:00 - 6:00 pm	Keynote Lecture: Pieter Roelfsema Brain mechanisms for conscious visual perception of coherent objects and the technology to restore it in blindness	Keynote	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)
6:15 - 7:00 pm	Community Meeting	Other	A0.01 (overflow A1.02/A1.03/C1.03)

Venue Information

Universiteit van Amsterdam

CCN 2025 will take place at UvA's Roeterseiland campus, which houses the faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and student cultural centre CREA. The campus is located in the Plantagebuurt of Amsterdam, one of the most beautiful and greenest parts of Amsterdam that is just outside, but still close to the city center. The campus houses multiple modern buildings, study facilities and research labs that are surrounded by many restaurants and cafes.

Roeterseiland campus can be easily reached with public transport, including metro, tram and bus. The closest station is Weesperplein, which is just a few stops away from Amsterdam's central train station and serviced by metro 51, 53 and 54, tram 1, 14 and 7, as well as at least five different bus routes. Car parking options on campus are very limited, so traveling to the conference by car is not recommended - instead, we recommend renting a bike at Amsterdam's numerous bike rental places. Find more information on getting around Amsterdam here.

The building where the conference will take place is wheelchair accessible. Conference attendees with reduced mobility can enter building A/B/C through the main entrance (B/C) or through a special entrance located on the Valckenierstraat.

Childcare

Providing affordable childcare during the meeting is a priority for CCN. We are actively examining several options for providing access to childcare in Amsterdam during CCN 2025, but at the moment cannot confirm that childcare will be available. Please check back for updates.