INS 2026
Agios Nikolaos, Crete
June 22-26, 2026

Location on Crete


(Local Organizers and INS Chair).

The local organizers are Georgia Grigoriou and Vassilis Raos.

TOPICS

  • Open topic for invited speakers from each region (7 speakers - Monday PM & Tuesday AM)
    • Cecilia Guariglia (Sapienza University, Italy)
    • Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham, UK)
    • Lewis Wheaton (Georgia Institute of Technology, US)
    • Lorena Chanes (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
    • Nicholas Turk-Browne (Yale University, US)
    • Nuria Sebastian Galles (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)
    • Simon Eickhoff (Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany)

  • Individual and Shared Sense of Agency: Phenomenology, Cognition, Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (6 speakers - Tuesday PM & Wednesday AM)
    Organized by Eraldo Paulesu & Vittorio Gallese
    • Luca Bonini (University of Parma, Italy)
    • Laura Zapparoli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
    • Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy)
    • Judith Ford (UCSF, US)

  • The Cognitive Thalamus (6 speakers - Wednesday PM & Thursday AM)
    Organized by Sabine Kastner
    • Anna Huang (Vanderbilt University, US)
    • Holly Bridge (University of Oxford, UK)
    • Marty Usrey (UC Davis, US)
    • Mike Halassa (Tufts University, US)
    • Yuri Saalmann (UW Madison, US)

  • Cognitive Maps and Structures in the Human and Non-Human Brain (5 speakers - Friday AM & PM)
    Organized by Manuela Piazza and Matthew Rushworth
    • Giorgia Committeri (University of Chieti, Italy)
    • Nora Newcombe (Temple University, US)
    • Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann Institute, Israel)


Modifications
July 09, 2025 - announce site for the 2026 meeting: Crete
July 14, 2025 - List topics
July 17, 2025 - Schedule topics
October 23, 2025 - Initial list of speakers
October 27, 2025 - Additional speakers listed