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GUIDELINES FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Please note that Cosyne has been using a double-blind review process since 2020. Submission instructions are available below.

SUBMISSION FORMAT

Before you log onto the submission website, you should have the following items prepared: (1) title, (2) author list (including email addresses of all authors), and (3) two-page PDF submission. Submissions that do not meet the following guidelines may be rejected.

Abstracts will be evaluated on the basis of a two-page (A4 or US Letter) submission in PDF format. This two-page PDF should contain:

• Title - 100 characters or fewer (including spaces), capitalized in sentence case.

• 300-word Summary - This is a brief description of the study's primary findings, emphasizing their significance, generality, novelty, and relevance. You will be asked to copy this 300-word summary into a text-only box. This summary is the only information included in the conference program if your submission is accepted.

• Additional Detail - Use the remaining space to expand upon the central question(s), approach, results, and/or conclusions of the study. The inclusion of figures (and equations where appropriate) to enhance the organization, clarity, and presentation of findings is highly encouraged (see Pro Tips below). This information is only made available to reviewers and conference organizers.

• Double-blind - The reviewing process for Cosyne is double-blind.  Authors are responsible for anonymizing their submissions. Do not include author names, author affiliations, or acknowledgments in the abstract, body, or figures of the submission. If you need to cite one of your own publications, use anonymization to preserve double-blind reviewing (e.g., write “In the previous work of Author et al. [1]…” rather than “In our previous work [1]...”). If you need to cite a non-anonymous preprint (on arXiv, social media, websites, etc.) please do so with adequate anonymization (e.g., if the cited submission is available as a non-anonymous preprint, then write “Author et al. [1] concurrently show…”). Reviewers are instructed not to actively look for such preprints, but encountering them will not constitute a conflict of interest. Alternatively, authors may submit work that is already available as a preprint (e.g., on arXiv) without citing it.  However, previously published papers by the authors on related topics must be cited with adequate anonymization.

Font size must be at least 12-point. Margins should be at least 0.5". This two-page PDF will be the only document seen by reviewers. (Abstracts exceeding two pages will have additional pages removed). Submissions that do not meet these guidelines may be rejected before review.

For questions regarding abstract submission, please contact: meeting [at] cosyne.org

EVALUATION CRITERIA

PDF submissions will be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:

• Significance

• Originality

• Clarity

• Relevance to the Cosyne audience

The submission should clearly explain why your question is important and how your claims will advance the field. Include enough detail that reviewers can assess the technical content of your methods and results. Please be sure to address the significance and fit of your submission for the Cosyne audience, which includes a mix of experimentalists and theoreticians interested in the functional properties of neural systems. Topics that are not typically accepted at Cosyne include pure machine learning studies without ties to the brain or studies of single neuron properties without clear implications for neural systems.

A few pro-tips:

• Basic flow: define your question and why it's important and unsolved, then state clearly how you approached it and what your results are. 

• Make sure to write about the significance of your findings broadly, perhaps in a concluding sentence in your abstract.

• Ensure that if your work skews heavily towards one end of the Cosyne spectrum (i.e. all computation or all systems neuro), include a sentence or two about how your results might be useful or intriguing to the other subgroup. 

• Figures in the Additional Detail are important to clarify the approach and the main results. Ideally, they should display the most important information for the reviewers. Make sure your figures are legible, clear, and explained either in a caption or the text of the Additional Detail. 

• Don't use acronyms without defining them at least once. 

• Give that abstract a good proofread before submitting!

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Note that you must “sign up” for the submission site, before submitting an abstract. Please note that submission confirmation emails might be delayed during peak submission hours, i.e. close to the submission deadline. Your submission, however, will be fine.

The person who uploads the submission must certify that they are the "presenting author". This is the author who plans to present the poster or talk at the meeting. You may act as "presenting author" on only one submission (although you may appear as a co-author on more than one). You and all your co-authors will receive an email confirmation once submission is finalized. If you appear as a co-author on multiple submissions, please use the same name, email, and affiliation on all your submissions.

Authors who are selected for posters and talks will be notified on 17 January 2024. Authors whose submission was rejected will also be notified on this date.

The presenting author for each abstract must register for the meeting by 7 February 2024, 11:59 p.m. EST. Note that registration and abstract submission are not the same process.

A preliminary meeting schedule will be published online (in mid-January 2024). Participants who need letters of invitation to obtain an entry visa may contact the Program Co-chairs in advance of this date (meeting [at] cosyne.org) or Leslie Weekes (leslie.weekes [at] cosyne.org).

COSYNE 2024 PROGRAM COMMITTEE

PUBLICATION OF SUMMARIES

Summaries of posters and talks will be published online on the Cosyne website. Authors will be asked to consent to publication when they submit their summaries. These summaries are citable, but they are not full-length proceedings and therefore do not preclude further publication. Copyright in individual summaries is the property of their respective authors. You may not revise your summary after submission, so please check it carefully for errors. Abstracts should be cited as follows:

Doe, John. (2024). A computational model of simple and complex cells. Cosyne Abstracts 2024.