The annual Cosyne meeting provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of empirical and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience, in order to understand how neural systems function.

The Main Meeting is single-track. A set of invited talks is selected by the Executive Committee, and additional talks and posters are selected by the Program Committee, based on submitted abstracts. The Workshops feature in-depth discussion of current topics of interest, in a small group setting.

Cosyne topics include (but are not limited to): neural basis of behavior, sensory and motor systems, circuitry, learning, neural coding, natural scene statistics, dendritic computation, neural basis of persistent activity, nonlinear receptive field mapping, representations of time and sequence, reward systems, decision-making, synaptic plasticity, map formation and plasticity, population coding, attention, and computation with spiking networks. Participants include pure experimentalists, pure theorists, and everything in between.

History of COSYNE. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) was founded in 2004 by Tony Zador, Alex Pouget, Carlos Brody, and Mike Shadlen. Cosyne evolved from Zador's smaller, invitation-only Neural Information and Coding NIC workshops, first held in 1996.

Download past meeting and workshop programs. Selected talks are available on the Cosyne YouTube Channel.