CogSci 2025: Call for Papers

The Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2025) will be held from July 30 – Aug 2, 2025, at the Marriott Marquis, San Francisco. The conference will offer both In Person & Virtual participation options.

Key Dates

*All deadline times are UTC-11 by midnight.

• Call for Submissions Open: December 2, 2024
• Submissions Close: February 3, 2025
• Meta-reviewers to Invite All Reviewers: February 3-10, 2025
• Reviews Due: March 2, 2025
• Meta-reviews Due: March 15, 2025
• Notifications of Decision Sent: April 5, 2025
• Accepted Submissions Due in Final Form (Camera-Ready): May 11, 2025

Registration Deadlines

• Conference registration now open
• Early-Bird registration deadline: June 2, 2025
• Standard Registration Deadline: July 2, 2025

Submission Categories

There are three categories of main conference submissions:

• Research papers (presented as talks or posters)
• Contributed symposia
• Member abstracts

Submission Guidelines

• Submissions must be no more than 6 pages, plus an unlimited number of pages for references and acknowledgments in the final version.
• Authors will have the option of publishing just the abstract in the conference proceedings, rather than the full paper.
• At least one author of each accepted paper must pre-register and attend the conference (either in-person or virtually for presentation) to have the submission appear in the program and conference proceedings.
• All submissions will be made via the PCS portal: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=cogsci

Presenter Guidelines

• Oral Presentation: Each standard oral presentation is allocated 25 minutes, including 5 minutes for questions.
• The projectors support a 16:9 aspect ratio (widescreen format).
• All speakers must bring their own laptops. HDMI, VGA, and Apple connectors will be available.

Keynote Themes

• Theme 1: The Future of Foundational Ideas of Cognitive Science
  • Keynote: Susan Carey (Harvard University)
• Theme 2: The Role of AI in Theories of the Future
  • Keynote: Josh Tenenbaum (MIT)
• Theme 3: New Theoretical Horizons in Cognitive Science
  • Keynote: Lauren Ross (UC Irvine)

Awards

• 2025 Recipient of the Rumelhart Prize: Nora Newcombe (Temple University)

Program Committee

• Azzurra Ruggeri
• David Barner
• Caren Walker
• Neil Bramley

Contact Information

• Conference Secretariat: cogsci@podiumconferences.com
• Sponsor & Exhibitor Sales: tori@podiumconferences.com