European Society for Cognitive Psychology

📣 Discover Transylvania: The ESCoP 2027 Website is Officially Live We are thrilled to announce the launch of the official website for our upcoming conference, which will take place in the vibrant city of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, from August 30 to September 4, 2027.

Abstraction in Thought, Language, and Creativity: Cognitive and Computational Perspectives Bologna, Italy 29–30 April 2027 Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2026

ESCOP 2027: Symposium Submissions Are Now Open! Mark your calendars for the next ESCOP conference in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania! The symposium proposal submission system has officially opened, and the deadline for entries is 30 November 2026.

PhD position - READEXP (A.C.) Educational Neurosciences and Developmental Disorders Research Group, BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

PhD position - PRO-LISTEN (N.M.) Brain Rhythms and Cognition Research Group BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

PhD position - Making sense of the sensory world: perceptual learning in the human brain (A.T.), Perceptual Inference Research Group BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

Cognitive Science Arena 2027 Bressanone (Brixen), Italy 18-20 February 2027 Abstract submission deadline: 27 November 2026

PhD position - Auditory Processing L2 (A.S.) Speech & Bilingualism Research Group BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

New content in the journal: Konijnenberg, C., & Johnsen, S. Å. K. (2026). The Effects of Personality, Anxiety and Depression on the Attentional Processing of Emotional Faces. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 46, pp. 1–11. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... Please come check it out!

Hi folks! New content in the journal: Tong, J., Roembke, T. C., Scharke, W., Koch, I., & Philipp, A. M. (2026). Prediction During Within- and Cross-Language Phrase Comprehension: Evidence from Eye-Tracking. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 47, pp. 1–18. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... Come check it out!

Some new content in the journal: Costantini, S., Fuhrmeister, P., Bürki, A., & Lampe, L. F. (2026). Age-Related Differences in Naming Latency Variability. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 48, pp. 1–13. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

A couple of new papers are out, world! Scotts et al. (2026). Memorization Modulates the Lifespan of Event Files. doi.org/10.5334/joc.... Ritchie & Wilbiks (2026). From Thought to Senses: Assessing the Relationship Between the Generation Effect and Multisensory Facilitation. doi.org/10.5334/joc....

PhD position - 3DTechSign (B.C.) Sign Language Research Group, BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

Postdoc (80%) at University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland The Cognition Team, headed by Klaus Oberauer, is looking for a postdoc. Application deadline is the 15th of October 2026.

Call for unpublished data: Holistic processing of same-race versus cross-race faces and its relationship to the cross-race recognition deficit

Looking Back at ESCoP-CoPM 2026 The recently concluded Joint ESCoP-CoPM Meeting 2026 marked a historic milestone as the very first ESCoP meeting ever held outside of Europe. For a visual recap of these memorable moments, we encourage everyone to browse the official photo gallery.

Two Research Assistant Positions in the Consciousness Group, BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain Application deadline: 8 October 2026

Become an ESCoP 2027 Ambassador! If you'd like to help us spread the word about the conference, we will send you a brief monthly message containing the most important updates that you can simply forward to your department, lab, or professional network. Please, check the details on our website.

Two weeks left to sign up for the Meta-Research Symposium 2026 organized by the Paul Meehl Graduate School paulmeehlschool.github.io/2026-08-04-s... If you've attended previous years, you know this is a lovely day full of cutting edge meta-science, and a great opportunity to network.

Our 2-day social cognition workshop "From Self-knowledge to knowing others"(6th edition) in Brussels on Dec 2-3 2026 now welcomes registration and abstracts for poster/talk ! Go www.self-knowing-others.org @selfknowingothers.bsky.social @escaneu.bsky.social @escop.bsky.social @scanunit.bsky.social

New content in the journal: Benini, E., Dignath, D., Schiltenwolf, M., Koch, I., Philipp, A. M., & Kiesel, A. (2026). Repeating Task Irrelevant Contexts Does Not Bias Task Choice and Performance in Voluntary Task Switching. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 40, pp. 1–22. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

A new paper is out in the journal, world: Taremaa, P., Ots, N., Veismann, A., & Speed, L. J. (2026). The Impact of Verb Speed on the Processing of Goal-Oriented Visual Scenes. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 39, pp. 1–25. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

New content in the journal: Hautekiet, C., & Oberauer, K. (2026). Does Attending to Information in Working Memory Improve Long-Term Memory? Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 41, pp. 1–11. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... @carohautekiet.bsky.social

New content just published: Benchetrit, A., & Benchetrit, L. (2026). Behavioral Constraint Legibility Under Concealment. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 43, pp. 1–19. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... Come check this out!

Some other recent content: Brysbaert, M. (2026). How to Measure the Reliability of Tasks in Experimental Psychology. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 42, pp. 1–13. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... We suspect this will be widely useful to any scholar interested in individual differences.

New content folks: Zhao, Z., Joessel, F., Green, C. S., Jaeggi, S. M., & Seitz, A. R. (2026). Perceptual Contaminants to Assessments of Visuospatial Working Memory: The Influences of Path Clutterness and Endpoint Crowding. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 44, pp. 1–13. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

New content published in the journal: Malyshevskaya, A., Fischer, M. H., Shtyrov, Y., & Myachykov, A. (2026). Age and Physical Activity Modulate the Spatial Mapping of Time-Related Words. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 45, pp. 1–19. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

Research Position — A statistical mind: combining prior and contingent language statistics, University of Pavia, Italy This position, within the FWO-funded STATMIND project, investigates how prior linguistic knowledge shapes the statistical learning of new linguistic regularities.

Research Position — Cognitive maps between language and space, University of Pavia, Italy This position investigates how linguistic representations contribute to mental representations and cognitive control. The project is funded within the ERC StG project OutOfSpace (PI: Prof. Luca Rinaldi).

Please spread the word: We’re recruiting a postdoc! 📣 We study how shifting brain & attentional states shape memory and how people experience their worlds. fMRI/iEEG + a fun, supportive lab community + space to pursue your own ideas. 📅 Apply by Aug 15 tinyurl.com/fx5k7teb

New content out in the journal: Valdez, M. R., & Bugg, J. M. (2026). Is Prospective Memory Monitoring Governed by Dual Processes of Initiating a Retrieval Mode and Checking for Targets? A Conceptual Replication and Extension of Guynn (2003). DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... Come check this out folks!

A new paper in the journal: Lefebvre, E., Turcotte, R., Ferrand, L., & Durand, E. (2026). Cultural Influences on Name Agreement: A Set of 237 Standardized Photographs of French Speakers in Quebec and France. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 37, pp. 1–16. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

New content in the journal, folks: Held, L. K., Goris, J., & Braem, S. (2026). Balancing Cognitive Flexibility and Stability: The Role of Reward, Autism, and Transdiagnostic Traits. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 38, pp. 1–21. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... Come check this out!

Research Assistant Position in the Consciousness Group, BCBL, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain Application deadline: 5 September 2026

Postdoctoral researcher incidental language learning, Ghent University, Belgium This position is part of the FWO-funded project “Growing a Statistical Mind: The Interplay Between Emerging and Existing Linguistic Knowledge” (STATMIND). Application deadline: 17 August 2026.

TeaP 2027 (Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen /Conference of experimental psychologists) Mannheim, Germany 21-24 March 2027 Contributions welcome from all topics in Experimental Psychology and neighbouring fields using the experimental method.

📣 Results for the 2026 ESCoP Early Career Publication Award for PhD students! The committee recognised Johan Achard and colleagues for the paper "Extending continuous flow models of immediate decision reports to delayed decision reports" (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2025).

📣 Results for the 2026 ESCoP Early Career Publication Award for Postdocs! The evaluation committee awarded Marius C. Vollberg and colleagues for their outstanding paper, "Place-related representations in setting the stage for empathy" (Cognition, 2026).

The deadline for submitting your paper to the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind-ISPSM is approaching (31/07). The conference will take place between 4-6/11 ONLINE, so, no participation fees. Info below #philmind #philsci #philsky #philpsy #neurosky #neuroskyence

📣 Announcement of the Paul Bertelson Award recipient! It is our pleasure to announce that this year’s Paul Bertelson Award is awarded to Dr. Joshua Snell. We are looking forward to what announces to be an exciting keynote lecture at the next year’s 25th ESCoP conference in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

New paper out in the journal: Newman, L., Cao, M., Tauber, S., & van Vugt, M. (2026). The Role of Different Thoughts in Tacit Coordination and Its Malleability by Interventions. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 31, pp. 1–16. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc..... Come check it out!

Some recent new content in the journal: Bleser, A., Fink, G. R., Vossel, S., & Mengotti, P. (2026). The Impact of Prior Beliefs about Volatility on Adaptive Behavior. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 32, pp. 1–18. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

We're so very proud of this! Not much of the journal metrics per se (they don't always reflect well what they're supposed to measure...), but of the fact that we offer a reputable outlet for strong cognitive science outside of commercial logics. Send us your best papers, folks!

A new paper out, cognitive peeps: Wang Y., Hendrix P., & Keuleers E. (2026). Orthographic Neighbourhood Size Effects in Chinese Character Recognition: Small, Inconsistent, and Theoretically Ambiguous. Journal of Cognition 9(1):33, pp. 1–23. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc....

A new paper is out in the journal: Fujita, H. (2026). Competing Biases in Real-Time Sentence Processing. Journal of Cognition, 9(1): 35, pp. 1–19. DOI: doi.org/10.5334/joc.... Come check this out!

Last year, the great @ruthbyrne.bsky.social was awarded the prestigious Broadbent prize by @escop.bsky.social. Her research on imaginative thought now shines in the journal -- doi.org/10.5334/joc..... Come check it out!

Research Assistant - Consciousness Research group, BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language Application deadline: 30 June 2026