We are excited to announce the winner of the 2026 ESCoP Early Career Publication Award for PhD students! Following the review of 14 highly competitive submissions, the evaluation committee—Luca Rinaldi, Gaen Plancher, and Philipp Musfeld—reached a unanimous decision to recognize Johan A. Achard and colleagues for their remarkable paper, "Extending continuous flow models of immediate decision reports to delayed decision reports.".

We are delighted to announce the winner of the ESCoP Early Career Publication Award for Postdocs! The evaluation committee—Tilo Strobach, Ana Sá Leite, and Luca Moretti—noted an exceptionally high standard across all applications this year, ultimately awarding Marius C. Vollberg and colleagues for their outstanding paper, "Place-related representations in setting the stage for empathy" (Cognition, 2026).

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to visit China and the beautiful city of Hangzhou while doing science.

From 31 August to 4 September 2026, ESCoP will hold its conference there. The programme looks excellent, with keynote lectures by Louisa Bogaerts, Fang Fang, Klaus Oberauer, and Agnieszka Wykowska, as well as symposia, oral presentations, and posters. And there is still time to submit an abstract.

The 2026 call for the ESCoP Early Career Publication Awards is now available on our website! This award (€1000) recognizes outstanding publications by early-career researchers, with separate categories for PhD students and postdocs.

The European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) is proud to announce the official call for nominations for the 2026 Paul Bertelson Award.

We are delighted to announce that the 11th European Working Memory Symposium (EWoMS) will take place in Lyon, France, from August 26 to 28, 2026. The theme of this edition, “Working Memory, Strategy, and Consciousness”, highlights emerging directions in the field and aims, for the first time, to explicitly bridge traditional cognitive approaches with neuroscientific perspectives on working memory. 

We are pleased to announce a new event funded by ESCOP: the upcoming MESEC Spring Workshop, "Mental Imagery: Towards the causal study of consciousness," which will take place from May 31th to June 7th, 2026 in Ephesus, Turkey. MESEC (the Mediterranean Society for Consciousness Science) is a grassroots student association focused on organizing inspiring scientific events, and for this workshop, a unique “debate hackathon” format will be held. 

The Music & the Brain Summer School is an ESCoP-sponsored international event that will take place in Pavia (Italy) from June 22 to 26, 2026. The school is organized by the MusiCognition Lab at the University of Pavia (Carlotta Lega and Laura Ferreri), within the framework of an Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program (BIP), in collaboration with Université Bourgogne Europe (Barbara Tillmann) and Aarhus University (Peter Keller).

We are pleased to announce that ESCoP has joined the European Consortium for Psychological Science (ECPS), a collaborative platform uniting ten European psychological science organizations across sub-disciplines, including developmental, clinical, social, personality, work & organizational, health, cognitive, methodology, assessment, and neuropsychology. Through this consortium, we aim to strengthen the visibility, exchange, and impact of psychological science across Europe and support initiatives that benefit researchers and practitioners alike.

Following the ESCoP Conference in Sheffield, we are pleased to announce the three winners of our post-conference survey raffle: Iona Glebov Russinov, Luc Selen, and Elena Benini. Each of them will receive a one-year free ESCoP membership. We congratulate our winners and thank all participants for their valuable feedback, which helps us continuously improve the ESCoP conference experience.

Dear colleagues, we are thrilled to invite researchers and students from all around the world to join us for the 2026 Joint Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology and the Cognitive Processes and Modelling Division of Chinese Psychological Society, which will be held between 31st August and 4th September, 2026 in the city of Hangzhou, known as the ‘Paradise on Earth’. 

ESCoP invites applications for sponsoring one additional thematic meeting scheduled for 2026, offering partial funding of up to 4,000 euros per event. These meetings, organized exclusively by ESCoP members, should focus on research areas relevant to the Society and be limited to 60 participants, with at least 50% of senior attendees being ESCoP members. Student participation will also be considered in the evaluation. Submit proposals to ESCoP Secretary Andrei Costea by September 30th, 2025.

The ESCoP is thrilled to announce that we will sponsor the 11th European Working Memory Symposium (EWoMS 2026)! EWoMS is a recurring, high-profile event dedicated to the study of working memory, taking place every two years in rotating European locations. The 2026 edition is scheduled to be held in Lyon, France, from August 26th to 28th. This edition’s theme will be — Working Memory, Strategy, and Consciousness and the keynote speaker will be Alessandra Souza from Porto University.

As part of its commitment to nurture the next generation of cognitive scientists, the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) through its evaluation committee formed by Alessandra Souza and Vanessa Loaiza, is delighted to announce financial support for two seasonal schools that will run in 2026: Music & the Brain: from basic research to clinical and societal implications and MESEC Mediterranean Workshop on Consciousness Science. 

The ESCoP's 2025 Early Career Publication Award for postdoctoral researchers goes to Luca Moretti for their publication “Moretti, L., Koch, I., Hornjak, R., & von Bastian, CC (2025). Quality over quantity: Focusing on high-conflict trials to improve the reliability and validity of attentional control measures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition". 
The ESCoP's 2025 Early Career Publication Award for Ph.D. students goes to Olesia Platonova for their publication “Platonova, O., & Miklashevsky, A. (2025). Warm and fuzzy: Perceptual semantics can be activated even during shallow lexical processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition". 

Dear ESCoP Members, as we are preparing for the upcoming 2025 ESCoP Conference, we would like to bring to your attention that some constitutional amendments will be discussed and voted upon during the next Business Meeting. The proposed changes can be consulted in advance here. Until a constitutional vote is reached, the following articles of the Constitution remain in place, as presented in the Constitution subsection of our webpage.

ESCoP is accepting proposals for the upcoming Summer or Winter Schools to be held in 2026! Whether you're an experienced researcher or just starting out, this is a fantastic opportunity to design and lead an innovative academic event that can truly make a difference in the cognitive science community.

Award for Post-docs: Sá-Leite, AR, & Lago, S. (2024). The role of word form in gender processing during lexical access: A theoretical review and novel proposal in language comprehension. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1-20. 

Award for PhD students: Musfeld, P., Souza, AS, & Oberauer, K. (2023). Repetition learning is neither a continuous nor an implicit process. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(16), e2218042120.