Welcome to the CSA conference!

We would like to invite you to the Cognitive Science Arena (CSA).

Our aim is to set a conference where young researchers can present their work in a friendly and cooperative environment with the audience challenging him/her in a fruitful debate. The goal of CSA is to provide a competent and useful “boot camp” for anyone how would like to a) practice the skills of giving a talk or discussing a poster, and b) develop his/her research based on suggestions from the audience. Along this line, highly innovative research ideas are encouraged as well as "in progress" research.


The key-ideas of the CSA are the following:
  1. papers by young scientists only without a full-term position (master students, PhD students and post-doctoral students, researchers with a fixed-term contract...);
  2. long time for each speaker: 15 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion;
  3. "You will never talk alone": poster-session with dedicated time for each poster.
  4. "Short-talks for posters": Poster presenters are also asked to prepare a three-minute talk (with PowerPoint-like presentations) that summarizes and introduces the audience to the content of the poster;
  5. "Verba volant, scripta manent" (aka, several anonymous reviewers): attendees can write comments, criticisms and suggestions to the speaker, via paper and pencil. Comments are delivered to the speaker at the end of the talk (or poster) session;
  6. PADLET: Starting from 2018 edition at CSA we use padlet. Padlet is a virtual blackboard where you can write (anonymously or not: you decide!) questions, comments, criticisms, hurray, etc. while the speaker is giving his/her talk;
  7. in progress and high-risk research is also welcome!

The conference will be held in February 18-19th, 2022.

Info for this year!

COVID-related issues

Due to the SARS-Cov19 pandemics, the CSA is waiting for the evaluation of the unibz's task force about some aspects. We all hope for your understanding. For sure, these are aspects that we all must respect:

  • admission requires a valid "Super" Green Pass (G2);
  • FPP2 masks must be wear and a minimum distance of 1 meter must be respected for the whole conference, while being in the building of the event;
  • the night-sledge (common event for Friday) and the Cheers, cheese & wine (common event for Saturday) events are (sadly) cancelled.

The Smart Talk!

This year we are delighted to guest Davide Crepaldi (Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at SISSA, Trieste). He will deliver the talk: "Trying to run an open lab: tools, successes and failures" on Saturday afternoon, after the poster session.