CONTROL PROCESSES 2026


June 10-12th, 2026, Ghent, Belgium

Program

Control Processes 2026 will be held at the historic Sint-Baafshuis, Room 1.05, Biezekapelstraat 2, located in the heart of Ghent, Belgium, on June 10-12th, 2026. Similar to the format of previous meetings, Control Processes will be a small, single-track meeting that will bring together scientists addressing cognitive control function from a range of approaches and levels of analysis with lots of opportunity for discussion and debate. Participants at past meetings have included scientists approaching cognitive control from human cognitive psychology, computational modeling, neuroscience, anatomy, disease and disorder, developmental, language, and animal models. Similar to previous editions, Control Processes 2026 will be PI-only, to ensure the meeting remains small. This way, most attendees can also be given the opportunity to present, through a curated set of symposia, lectures, and a keynote, as well as blitz talks selected from abstracts submitted by registered attendees. Mark your calendar, and we look forward to meeting all of you!

- Lara Bardi, Nico Boehler, Senne Braem, Clay Holroyd, Ruth Krebs, and Tom Verguts

Tentative Schedule

June 10th

1:00 pm: Introduction to the conference by Senne Braem
1:15 pm: Symposium 1: How task and control representations drive behavior – chaired by Senne Braem
• Sebastian Musslick (Osnabrück University, Germany)
• Marcello Mattar (New York University, US)
• Maria Eckstein (Google Deepmind, UK)
• Michael W. Cole (Rutgers University, US)

3:00 pm: Coffee break

3:30 pm: Blitz 1
4:15 pm: Keynote 1: Peter Dayan


June 11th

9:00 am: Symposium 2: On the domain-generality and transfer of cognitive control – chaired by Nico Boehler
• Timothy T. Rogers (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US)
• Kelly Grace Garner (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
• N. Bonnie Nozari (Indiana University, US)

10:45 am: Coffee break

11:15 am: Blitz 2

12:30 pm: Lunch break

1:30 pm: Symposium 3: Control processes in everyday life – Chaired by Ruth Krebs
• Sanne de Wit (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
• Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford, UK)
• Anna-Lena Schubert (University of Mainz, Germany)

3:15 pm: Coffee break

3:45 pm: Blitz 3

6:30 pm: Conference Dinner

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June 12th

9:00 am: Keynote 2: Dani S. Bassett

10:00 am: Coffee break

10:30 am: Symposium 4 - The nature of cognitive effort – chaired by Clay Holroyd
• Eliana Vassena (Radboud University & Donders Institute, Netherlands)
• Veronika Job (University of Vienna, Austria)
• Mathias Pessiglione (Paris Brain Institute, France)
• Andrew Westbrook (Rutgers University, US)

12:15 pm: Lunch break

1:30 pm: Blitz 4

2:30 pm: Coffee break

3:00 pm: Symposium 5: The role of oscillations in cognitive control – Chaired by Tom Verguts
• Pascal Fries (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
• Satu Palva (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Thilo Womelsdorf (Vanderbilt University, US)
• Olave E Krigolson (University of Victoria, Canada)
4:45 pm: Closing remarks by Tom Verguts

Keynote Speakers

Confirmed Speakers

Michael W. Cole (Rutgers University, US)
Sanne de Wit (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Maria Eckstein (Google Deepmind, UK)
Pascal Fries (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Kelly Grace Garner (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Claire Gillan (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Laurence Hunt (University of Oxford, UK)
Veronika Job (University of Vienna, Austria)
Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Olave E Krigolson (University of Victoria, Canada) Marcello Mattar (New York University, US)
Sebastian Musslick (Osnabrück University, Germany)
N. Bonnie Nozari (Indiana University, US)
Satu Palva (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Mathias Pessiglione (Paris Brain Institute, France)
Timothy T. Rogers (University of Wisconsin-Madison, US)
Anna-Lena Schubert (University of Mainz, Germany)
Eliana Vassena (Radboud University & Donders Institute, Netherlands)
Andrew Westbrook (Rutgers University, US)
Thilo Womelsdorf (Vanderbilt University, US)