ESCoP is a dynamic scientific society that provides a venue within which current research in cognitive psychology and neighboring disciplines can be presented, discussed and encouraged.
ESCOP promotes new research initiatives, supports a European research-base through summer school programmes in which students can learn about state-of-the-art developments, holds conferences for the presentation of research and maintains a leading academic journal as an outlet for research findings. You are welcome to explore this website and the resources that are held here.
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ESCoP is a large and growing organisation with a healthy membership base in most European countries and around the world. Membership has many benefits, including a Reduced Author Processing Charge for publishing in the Journal of Cognition, access to ESCOP’s award and funding programmes and a reduced fee for attending ESCoP conferences.
Open for submissions
Bologna, Italy
29–30 April 2027
The conference brings together researchers across disciplines to explore how abstraction shapes the way we learn, categorize, reason, communicate, and create. Topics range from language, learning, and analogy to abstract concepts, creativity, and the ways in which artificial systems, including large language models, handle abstract meaning.
Mark your calendars for the next ESCOP conference, taking place in Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, Romania, in 2027, hosted by Babeș-Bolyai University! The symposium proposal submission system officially opened on 15 October 2026, inviting ESCOP members to contribute to the scientific programme by proposing symposia that reflect the latest developments and emerging perspectives in our field.
Classperiment lets students experience classic paradigms in the lecture hall instead of only hearing about them. Students join with a QR code on their own phone, tablet or laptop, without an app or account, and complete a task such as Stroop, flanker, n-back, visual search, attentional blink or mental rotation. Directly afterwards the projector shows the class means with confidence intervals, so the group can discuss its own data. 33 paradigms from attention, cognitive control, working memory and perception are available in English and German. Raw trial data stays on the students' devices; only summaries without names are submitted, and only if students agree to share them. The tool is developed at Ulm University and is currently in beta. Feedback from instructors on how it works in their courses, and on which paradigms are missing, is very welcome.
