Day 1 - Thursday 5 November, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
8:45 a.m. WELCOME REMARKS 
Session I: Language, learning, and culture
Session I explores how AI influences language, learning and cultural evolution and to what extent it may reshape human culture.  
09:00 a.m. Invited Talk
What is human intelligence for? Learning, culture and the mind in the age of AI
Rose Luckin, Educate Ventures Research Limited, UK
09:45 a.m. Invited Talk
Alexander Bentley, University of Tennessee, USA
10:30 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:50 a.m. Invited Talk
James Evans, University of Chicago, USA
11:35 a.m. Invited Talk
Weaving vision and language into semantic memory in the human brain
Yanchao Bi, Peking University, China
12:05 p.m. Invited Talk
Bradley Love, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
12:35 p.m. LUNCH
Session II: The brain
Session II presents how neuroscience has inspired artificial intelligence models, as well as how our understanding of cognitive neurobiology has evolved with the help of advances in AI. 
2:00 p.m. Invited Talk
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2:45 p.m. Invited Talk
Interpretable models of brain and behaviour 
Matthew Rushworth, University of Oxford, UK
3:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
3:50 p.m. Invited Talk
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4:35 p.m. Invited Talk
NEURO-AI: When Brains meet Machines
Marcel van Gerven, Radboud University, The Netherlands
5:05 p.m. Invited Talk
Yi Zeng, Renmin University of China, China
5:35 p.m. End of day

Day 2 - Friday 6 November, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
Session III: Cognition
Session III explores how AI has informed our understanding of human cognition, as well as how AI models simulate cognitive skills, including decision-making, inference, learning, language, theory of mind, and social interaction.
09:00 a.m. Invited Talk
Yael Niv, Princeton University, USA 
09:45 a.m. Invited Talk
Human bias in the age of AI (amplification & detection)
Tali Sharot, University College London, UK 
10:30 a.m. COFFEE BREAK
10:50 a.m. Invited Talk
Opportunities for Neural Decoding and AI in Neuroscience and Mental Health
Benjamin Becker, The University of Hong Kong, China
11:35 a.m. Invited Talk
Kenji Doya , Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), Japan
12:05 p.m. Invited Talk
Huan Luo, Peking University, China
12:35 p.m. LUNCH
Session IV: Mental health
Session IV presents how AI can contribute to improving mental health through digital interventions, more precise diagnostic tools, and personalised treatment strategies.  
2:00 p.m. Invited Talk
Quentin Huys, University College London, UK
2:45 p.m. Invited Talk
Claudi Bockting, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, The Netherlands
3:15 p.m. Invited Talk
Ann John, Swansea University, UK 
3:30 p.m. COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
3:50 p.m. Invited Talk
Pim Cuijpers, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4:35 p.m. Invited Talk
Emerging trends in understanding the mechanisms of psychiatric disorders: the role of digital technologies
Deanna Barch, Washington University, USA
5:05 p.m. Invited Talk
Anqi Qiu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
5:35 p.m. End of day

Day 3 - Saturday 7 November, 2026

All times are in China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)
9:00 a.m. Short Talks
selected by Scientific Committee from abstract submissions
10:00 a.m. COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
10:20 a.m. Short Talk
selected by Scientific Committee from abstract submissions
11:00 a.m. Meet-the-Editors Session 
11:30 a.m. CLOSING REMARKS
Preliminary program – subject to change. Last updated: Aug 5, 2026.

Times are displayed in CST