We are pleased to invite you to the fourteenth edition of the Cognitive Science Arena (CSA), which will be held in Brixen on February 5-7 2026.

Spirit and mood
The aim of the CSA is to set up a conference where young scientists can disseminate their scientific contributions in a friendly and cooperative environment, and challenge the senior scientists in a fruitful debate. In particular, highly innovative research ideas as well as research-in-progress are encouraged. The idea of the CSA is to reverse the usual format of scientific conferences. Young researchers first: they play the starring role (no talks or posters from senior researchers are allowed), they compete for a prize for the best talk and poster voted by the audience. We would like to bring together young and promising minds now working in cognitive science and provide them with a fruitful and cooperative environment. Topics include (but are not limited to) all areas (and surroundings) of cognitive science: developmental cognition and education, language, memory, perception, psychometrics, anthropology, economics and social sciences, neuroscience, clinical psychology, and animal cognition, just to mention a few.

Type of contribution: talk and poster
CSA is accepting two types of contributions: talks and posters. Talks consist of a 15 minute-presentation, followed by a 10-minute discussion. The poster session is divided in two moments. In the first one, poster presenters are asked to give a three minute talk that introduces the audience to the content of the talk. On Saturday, the “You will never talk alone” poster session will take place, with regular posters and dedicated time and discussion for each poster presented on the previous days. A note for participants: this type of poster session (i.e., short talk plus regular poster) is strongly recommended if you are willing to present in progress or research ideas (i.e., research that has no data yet).

Abstract can be submitted starting from the 17/11/2025 12:00 to the 05/12/2025 12:00 (i.e., noon) CET*

Conference website
More information, abstract submission and registration forms can be found here:
https://cogsci.unibz.it

Contacts & info:
cog.sci.arena@gmail.com
Facebook: Cognitive Science Arena

Categoria Descrizione & esempi
1 Test di massima performance Prove di intelligenza, batterie attitudinali, test neuropsicologici, prove di apprendimento normate.
2 Test di tipica performance Strumenti che rilevano comportamenti abituali o modalità espressive normate
3 Autovalutazione (Self-report) Questionari, inventari, scale di atteggiamento compilati dal soggetto.
4 Eterovalutazione (Informant-report) Checklist, griglie, questionari compilati da genitori, insegnanti, clinici, pari.
5 Protocolli di intervista Interviste strutturate o semi-strutturate con scoring standardizzato (es. K-SADS, ADI-R).
6 Protocolli di osservazione Sistemi osservativi/behavioral coding con metriche psicometriche (es. ABAS-3 Observation, video-coding con accordo inter-rater).
7 Paradigmi sperimentali standardizzati Compiti di laboratorio o computerizzati (Stroop, Iowa Gambling Task, ecc.).
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