#### Welcome to the Help Desk!

Here you can find all necessary information for a successful virtual conference experience. If you need additional assistance, please contact our team anytime.

**The conference will be hosted virtually on Underline.**

📅 **Platform opens: July 17th** 
📧 **Access:** All registered attendees will receive an email with login credentials and instructions.

⚠️ Please do not create your own account - **access will be provided directly by the organizers on July 17th.** 
🔒 **The platform is not yet open to the public.**

#### Location
This is a hybrid conference taking place in person in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at [Sheraton Grand Rio Hotel & Resort](https://cognitivesciencesociety.org/hotel/), and virtually via Underline.

#### Program Information
* **Link to programme**
* **Session schedules**
* **Poster/session locations** 
All in-person poster and session locations are listed in the conference program.
* **Workshop details** 
Workshops are available to in-person attendees only and will not be livestreamed or recorded.

#### Presentation Information
* Speaker ready room details
* Presentation upload instructions
* AV equipment available 
All presentation rooms will be equipped with standard audio-visual (AV) equipment, including a projector, screen, microphone, presentation clicker, and laptop connection (HDMI). 
In-person presenters can reupload their slides via the designated form or directly in the Speaker Ready Room, where they can also check and preview their slides. 
Please ensure slides are uploaded **at least 3 hours before your session start time**.

On-site technical support will be available throughout the conference to assist with any AV-related needs.

#### Instructions:
* Attendee User Guide
* Presenter and Chair User Guide

#### Virtual/Hybrid Attendance
Virtual attendees can join the conference via the Underline. **Access details and login instructions will be shared on July 15th.** Please ensure you log in using the email address used during registration.

For any technical issues, support will be available through the platform’s help desk during the conference.

#### Account Confirmation:
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**On July 17th the email will be sent from Underline with subject line "Welcome to CogSci 2026 Conference".**

OR

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Please make sure you **use the same email address you registered with!**
OR

Simply contact us at <cogsci2026@underline.io>

For technical difficulties you can also use the **contact us** button on the right to contact Underline support team.

Conference Help Desk

#### Have a question? Feel free to contact us directly!

### Welcome to CogSci Conference 2026!

The 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

The Cognitive Science Society plans to host a fully synchronous hybrid conference for 2026 Rio de Janeiro. Therefore all presenters will have the option to present in-person in Rio, or virtually, from anywhere in the world. Similarly, attendance will be available both in-person in Rio, and virtually. Post conference, there will be an ‘on-demand’ service making all presentations accessible to all for 24 calendar months. 

#### About

The Cognitive Science Society brings together researchers from around the world who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind. The mission of the Society is to promote Cognitive Science as a discipline, and to foster scientific interchange among researchers in various areas of study, including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Education.

The Society is a non-profit professional organization and its activities include sponsoring an annual conference and publishing the journals Cognitive Science and TopiCS.

#### Our History 

* **Society Creation** 
The Society was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional organization in Massachusetts in 1979. The organizing committee included Roger Schank, Allan Collins, Donald Norman, and a number of other scholars from psychology, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy. 
 
* **Conference Creation** 
The first conference on cognitive science was held at La Jolla, California in August, 1979, and has occurred annually since then. The proceedings of each conference are published, and those from most years are available through Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. The annual proceedings of the Cognitive Science Conference represent a major source of information on new work and new ideas in the scientific study of thinking. In 1990, the Society, with help from an anonymous donor, established the David Marr Prize for the best student paper at each annual meeting.
 
* **Journal Creation** 
The Journal, Cognitive Science, began publication in 1976, and is now published by Wiley-Blackwell. The Executive Editor is currently Richard P. Cooper of Birkbeck, University of London, and there are 18 Associate Editors and a 30-member editorial board. It serves as the premier outlet for research reports that intersect two or more disciplines. Copyrights for articles published in the journal are held by the Society. The Governing Board of the Cognitive Science Society voted in late 2006 to found a new journal, Topics in Cognitive Science (topiCS). The Editor in Chief is Wayne Gray, Cognitive Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The journal seeks to fill a niche not occupied by Cognitive Science Journal or other cognitive science journals. Membership in the Society includes a subscription to Cognitive Science and TopiCS. Copyrights for articles published in the journal are held by the Society.

#### Code of Conduct
By attending the CogSci 2026 Conference, you are required to adhere to the society’s [**Code of Conduct**](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VWW9nG9kODPR-FxPDA67SvZma-BmxcCx/view?usp=sharing).

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CogSci 2026

The 48th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society presents the latest research across cognitive science and highlights the theme of Cognition in Context.

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