INS 2026
Agios Nikolaos, Crete
June 22-26, 2026
(Local Organizers and INS Chair).
The local organizers are Georgia Grigoriou and Vassilis Raos.
Participants (as of 2 June 2026)
TOPICS
- Open topic for invited speakers from each region (6 speakers - Monday PM & Tuesday AM)
- Cecilia Guariglia (Sapienza University, Italy): Reach your goal or get lost: neuropsychology of human navigation
- Panagiotis Sapountzis (University of Crete, Greece): Neural population codes for feature attention and working memory
- Monika Schoenauer (Freiburg University, Germany): The role of reactivation in forming long-term memories
- Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham, UK): Decoding naturalistic speech: Brain rhythms, multisensory integration, and non-invasive modulation approaches
- Lorena Chanes (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain): From cortical organization to experience. Hierarchies, integration and prediction
- Nicholas Turk-Browne (Yale University, US): Learning and memory in the infant brain
- 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): Neural mechanisms of social interaction: From local to system levels in nonhuman primates
- Gyorgy Gergely (Central European University, Hungary): How infants interpret others' actions as goal-directed, linking agency to rational action understanding
- Patrick Haggard (University College London, UK): Dissecting the human sense of agency
- Laura Zapparoli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy): Brain mechanisms of individual and shared sense of agency in adult humans
- Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy): Sense of agency in human-robot interactions
- Thomas Whitford (UNSW, Australia): The neuropsychology of altered sense of agency: lessons from psychopathology
- The Cognitive Thalamus (6 speakers - Wednesday PM & Thursday AM)
Organized by Sabine Kastner
- Marty Usrey (UC Davis, US): From attention to action: Cognitive control of LGN visual responses
- Holly Bridge (University of Oxford, UK): The role of LGN in residual vision following stroke to primary visual cortex
- Sabine Kastner (Princeton University, US): Cognitive functions of the primate pulvinar
- Mike Halassa (Tufts University, US): Thalamocortical architectures for cognitive control and flexibility
- Anna Huang (Vanderbilt University, US): The thalamus in schizophrenia: Circuit dysfunction and cognitive impairment
- Yuri Saalmann (UW Madison, US): Thalamo-cortical processes for cognitive control and consciousness
- Cognitive Maps and Structures in the Human and Non-Human Brain (5 speakers - Friday AM & PM)
Organized by Manuela Piazza and Matthew Rushworth
- Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann Institute, Israel): Neural codes for natural behaviors in bats
- Giorgia Committeri (University of Chieti, Italy): Mapping space, events and concepts in the human brain
- Beth Buffalo (University of Washington, US): The hippocampus constructs dynamic internal models of experience
- Yunzhe Liu (Beijing Normal University, China): Human SWR Atlas maps brain-wide recruitment across the hippocampal axis in deep sleep
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(Local Organizers and INS Chair).
The local organizers are Georgia Grigoriou and Vassilis Raos.
Participants (as of 2 June 2026)
TOPICS
- Cecilia Guariglia (Sapienza University, Italy): Reach your goal or get lost: neuropsychology of human navigation
- Panagiotis Sapountzis (University of Crete, Greece): Neural population codes for feature attention and working memory
- Monika Schoenauer (Freiburg University, Germany): The role of reactivation in forming long-term memories
- Hyojin Park (University of Birmingham, UK): Decoding naturalistic speech: Brain rhythms, multisensory integration, and non-invasive modulation approaches
- Lorena Chanes (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain): From cortical organization to experience. Hierarchies, integration and prediction
- Nicholas Turk-Browne (Yale University, US): Learning and memory in the infant brain
Organized by Eraldo Paulesu & Vittorio Gallese
- Luca Bonini (University of Parma, Italy): Neural mechanisms of social interaction: From local to system levels in nonhuman primates
- Gyorgy Gergely (Central European University, Hungary): How infants interpret others' actions as goal-directed, linking agency to rational action understanding
- Patrick Haggard (University College London, UK): Dissecting the human sense of agency
- Laura Zapparoli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy): Brain mechanisms of individual and shared sense of agency in adult humans
- Agnieszka Wykowska (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy): Sense of agency in human-robot interactions
- Thomas Whitford (UNSW, Australia): The neuropsychology of altered sense of agency: lessons from psychopathology
Organized by Sabine Kastner
- Marty Usrey (UC Davis, US): From attention to action: Cognitive control of LGN visual responses
- Holly Bridge (University of Oxford, UK): The role of LGN in residual vision following stroke to primary visual cortex
- Sabine Kastner (Princeton University, US): Cognitive functions of the primate pulvinar
- Mike Halassa (Tufts University, US): Thalamocortical architectures for cognitive control and flexibility
- Anna Huang (Vanderbilt University, US): The thalamus in schizophrenia: Circuit dysfunction and cognitive impairment
- Yuri Saalmann (UW Madison, US): Thalamo-cortical processes for cognitive control and consciousness
Organized by Manuela Piazza and Matthew Rushworth
- Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann Institute, Israel): Neural codes for natural behaviors in bats
- Giorgia Committeri (University of Chieti, Italy): Mapping space, events and concepts in the human brain
- Beth Buffalo (University of Washington, US): The hippocampus constructs dynamic internal models of experience
- Yunzhe Liu (Beijing Normal University, China): Human SWR Atlas maps brain-wide recruitment across the hippocampal axis in deep sleep
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
November 20, 2025 - Additional speakers listed
December 15, 2025 - Additional speakers listed
January 06, 2026 - Registration information added
February 06, 2026 - Additional speakers listed
March 13, 2026 - Add link to registered participants
April 21, 2026 - Additional speakers listed
June 2, 2026 - Edits to speaker and participant lists
June 8, 2026 - Talk titles added