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Call for Student Poster Abstracts

Structural Changes to Annual Meeting Program

As you make plans to attend in November, we wanted to let you know about some structural changes that will be implemented at this year's meeting. These changes will affect presenters and attendees alike. Please make sure to read the announcement.

2022 Annual Meeting
The 2022 annual meeting will be a hybrid conference, and the experience will be different for in person and remote attendees. If you are able to attend the meeting in person, we encourage you to do so. However, all spoken and poster presenters will have the option to present remotely from anywhere in the world if they are not able to attend the meeting in person in Boston. Please note that all spoken presentations will be given live this year; there will be no prerecorded talks. Read more about the new 2022 Program.

Consider Diversity

The Psychonomic Society is committed to scientific merit, which entails the inclusion of scientists regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, disability status, country of origin, geographic location, and disciplinary expertise. Please critically examine your deliberations to eliminate biases that detract from our commitment to merit. You will be required to create a statement on how the make-up of your proposed symposium is consistent with the Diversity Statement of the Psychonomic Society.

Guidelines for the Graduate Student Member category:

• Limited to one sponsored abstract for a poster presentation..
• Graduate students may not submit abstracts for spoken presentations.
• Your abstract must be sponsored by a Fellow (who has paid 2022 dues) or Emeritus Fellow. However, the Graduate Student author must submit the abstract.
• When you use the abstract submission system, you must identify the name and email of your sponsor and provide the sponsor's Member ID number. You should contact your sponsor prior to submitting your abstract to obtain their Psychonomic Society Member ID number.
• If your sponsor is not a co-author, you must upload a brief letter from him/her, specifically indicating that she/he is willing to sponsor your paper. The sponsorship letter should include your name as the Graduate Student and the title of your talk. For example, "I will sponsor Mary Smith's paper titled The Role of Memory in Understanding Language." Letters are not needed if the sponsor is a co-author on the paper.
• Only Fellows and Emeritus Fellows may sponsor abstracts. Each Fellow or Emeritus Fellow may sponsor up to two abstracts. Graduate Student Members should check with their sponsor to ensure that she/he is a Fellow (who has paid 2022 dues) or Emeritus Fellow and that she/he is sponsoring no more than two abstracts.

Need a Sponsor?

If you need a sponsor for your abstract and do not know a PS Fellow who can serve as a sponsor, please contact Reed Hunt, reed@olemiss.edu, PS Secretary, by May 20, and include the title and body of your abstract with your request. While we cannot guarantee that we can find you a sponsor. we will do our best to assist.

2022 Graduate Student Award Applications
Would you like to apply for a 2022 graduate award? You may apply for up to one graduate award. Applicants of the J. Frank Yates Student Conference Award who are not selected will have their applications automatically rolled over for consideration for the Graduate Student Conference Award. Please note: You may not receive the same award two years in a row. 2021 award recipients are not eligible to receive the same award in 2022.

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Instructions for Paper & Poster Abstract Submission

Please note: In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, details pertaining to the format of the 2022 Annual Meeting are still being finalized. An updated list of instructions for presentations will be distributed to all paper and poster presenters in the coming months. The guidelines below provide an overview of what to expect, but specific parameters are subject to change.

1. All spoken papers are 15 minutes in length, followed by a formally scheduled 5-minute discussion period.
2. Please proofread your name, title, and abstract for correctness and completeness. Capitalize the content words in your title. Don't use abbreviations (such as Uof M) in the affiliations. Write out the name of the institution (University of Minnesota). The full name of your institution will appear in the program.
3. The maximum length of abstracts is 1,250 characters (including spaces), or about 150 words. Your abstract will be truncated at 1,250 characters in the abstract submission program. This count does not include the presentation title.
4. The Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society encourages all presenters to follow the Psychonomic Society Statistical Guidelines. Effect sizes should be reported and error bars with appropriate labels should be included on all graphs.
5. In the Release Agreement, you will be asked to provide your permission for your talk to be live streamed and recorded.
6. To be considered complete, all information required must be supplied; incomplete forms WILL be rejected.
7. By August, you will be notified by email of the abstract's status for the meeting.
8. The completed submission for a paper or poster must have been submitted by 11:59 pm Pacific Time on June 1, 2022.

Topic List and Keywords

To help us build the program, please select two topics from the predefined list that represent appropriate categories for your submission. The Topics will include a general domain (i.e., Memory) and a sub-topic within that domain (i.e., Memory: Working Memory). These choices are important because they are used to group your abstract with other similar abstracts. In addition, you are asked to indicate up to three keywords that more specifically characterize your submission.

Conflicts of Interest

“Conflicts of Interest” arise in science when financial incentives, personal relationships, or other such considerations undermine a scientist’s objectivity. For example, if a scientist is a shareholder in a company that sells a treatment for a condition, that scientist would have a conflict of interest (COI) with regard to research on that and closely related conditions and treatments. Having a COI does not preclude presenting your research, but COIs must be declared so that the scientific content of the presentation can be reviewed considering the COI(s). If you have a COI, please indicate this when asked in the abstract submission program. See www.pnas.org/page/authors/competing-interest for further discussion.

Posters

Instructions for formatting your virtual poster will be provided in the coming months. If you have questions after receiving the instructions, please email Member Services at info@psychonomic.org.

Poster priorities for acceptance depend upon the status of the submitting author. Unlike spoken presentations, the person submitting a poster abstract is not required to be the actual presenter of the abstract. The priorities for posters are the same as for spoken presentations: Fellows, Members, Graduate Student Members, and non-members.