University of Maryland, College Park at SfN 2026

Nov 14–18, 2026 Washington, DC ~21k attendees Website

University of Maryland, College Park brings 34 presentations to SfN 2026 in Washington. Its posters and talks at this meeting centre on auditory learning, brain circuits involved in craving, and sensory and behavioral processing. One thread traces oxycodone craving during abstinence through orbitofrontal connections, synaptic protein profiles, and changing brain states.

Organization	SfN 2026 Attendance
University of Maryland, College Park College Park, MD
umd.edu Universities and research institutes Public research university near Washington, DC; recruits for its neuroscience and cognitive science program.	At the Graduate School Fair, table 23B · University of Maryland, College Park Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program Poster Sat Nov 14 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR016: Auditory Perceptual Learning, Decision-Making, and Prediction: Animal Studies Layer-Specific Correlates of Auditory Perceptual Learning in Primary Auditory Cortex WCC Halls A-C · Board Z6 Poster Sat Nov 14 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR016: Auditory Perceptual Learning, Decision-Making, and Prediction: Animal Studies Midbrain dopaminergic neuron activity during auditory perceptual learning WCC Halls A-C · Board Z7 Poster Sat Nov 14 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR025: Emotional Processing in the Human Brain Amygdala-targeted 10 Hz temporal interference stimulation attenuates anticipatory threat responses in humans WCC Halls A-C · Board DD2 Poster Sun Nov 15 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR044: Structural Plasticity and Extracellular Matrix Dynamics Role of matrix metalloproteinases in the modulation of extracellular matrix integrity following auditory training WCC Halls A-C · Board K8 Poster Sun Nov 15 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR048: Neural Mechanisms of Aging Age-related changes in white-matter structural connectivity are associated with auditory functional network organization and behavioral performance WCC Halls A-C · Board U1 Poster Sun Nov 15 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR058: Olfaction Across Species and Behavior Olfactory processing impairments induced by stress in juvenile mice WCC Halls A-C · Board AA32 Poster Sun Nov 15 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR073: Orbitofrontal, Corticolimbic Circuits, and Decision-Making Get over it! Characterization of neural signals in NAc and anterior insula in rats performing a novel multistep perseverance task WCC Halls A-C · Board II29 Session Sun Nov 15 1–2pm Part of Session MTE04: Meet-the-Expert: Wager — Thoughts, Beliefs, and the Body: The Construction and Regulation of Feelings Moderator WCC Rm 201 Poster Sun Nov 15 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR095: Taste Investigating the role of taste cells during parental care in a mouthbrooding cichlid fish WCC Halls A-C · Board W28 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR142: Neuroethology: Vocal/Social Communication Testosterone induces early song crystallization in male and increases volume of song control nuclei in female grasshopper sparrows WCC Halls A-C · Board CC7 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR152: Neural Substrates of Opioid Seeking Role of submedius thalamus and its interaction with orbitofrontal cortex in incubation of oxycodone craving WCC Halls A-C · Board II28 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR152: Neural Substrates of Opioid Seeking Proteomic profiling of projection-specific orbitostriatal synaptoneurosomes during incubation of oxycodone craving in male and female rats WCC Halls A-C · Board II30 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR152: Neural Substrates of Opioid Seeking Circuit-level directed connectivity and dynamic brain-state alterations during incubation of oxycodone craving after forced abstinence in male rats WCC Halls A-C · Board II31 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR158: Language: Neural Circuits and Mechanisms II Spatiotemporal dynamics and age-related changes in language production revealed by magnetoencephalography WCC Halls A-C · Board LL24 Poster Mon Nov 16 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR161: Data Analysis and Statistics: Human Data I First Digit Distributions Reveal Highly Reproducible Benford Conformity in EEG and MEG Power Spectra WCC Halls A-C · Board LL78 Poster Mon Nov 16 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR169: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Brain Aging Cortical Impact of Auditory Training Types on Hierarchical Language Representations WCC Halls A-C · Board M1 Poster Mon Nov 16 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR178: Pain Imaging and Perception Central Post-Stroke Pain Reduction: Evidence of Cortical and Network Reorganization in Physiological Bands WCC Halls A-C · Board W20 Poster Mon Nov 16 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR182: Neural Basis of Human Speech: Perception and Production Acoustic and linguistic auditory temporal response functions encode attentional modulation during continuous active speech listening WCC Halls A-C · Board Y32 Poster Mon Nov 16 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR191: Cardiovascular Regulation Frontal midline theta and vagally mediated heart rate variability in cortical-autonomic regulation during meditation WCC Halls A-C · Board EE4 Poster Mon Nov 16 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR197: Hallucinogens: Neural Mechanisms of Action Serotonergic psychedelics alter sensory processing in mouse auditory cortex WCC Halls A-C · Board HH18 Poster Mon Nov 16 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR198: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Attention in Humans Concurrent EEG and MEG Shows Differences Between Monolinguals and Bilinguals in Auditory Stream Segregation WCC Halls A-C · Board II16 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR231: Visual Cortex: Populations Deep neural networks with high temporal resolution enhances computational distinctions of V1 neurons WCC Halls A-C · Board CC4 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR245: Clinical and Applied Mechanisms of Attention in Humans Long-Lasting Effects of Psychedelics on Neural Connectivity Associated with Goal-Directed Behavior in Humans WCC Halls A-C · Board KK53 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR250: Population Dynamics and Neural Representations Selective neural-BOLD state correspondence reveals a conserved brain-state motif across modalities and species WCC Halls A-C · Board LL88 Poster Tue Nov 17 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR250: Population Dynamics and Neural Representations Stimulus-anchored autoregression reveals shared and individualized movie-evoked fMRI trajectories WCC Halls A-C · Board MM7 Poster Tue Nov 17 1–5pm Part of Session LBP059: A.08. Adolescent Development Development of a child-friendly fMRI task to capture neural function during sustained attention and attention shifting WCC Halls A-C · Board B33 Poster Tue Nov 17 1–5pm Part of Session LBP066: F.05. Brain-Machine Interface ARC--Autoencoder for Reflex Conditioning: A self-supervised pipeline relating sensorimotor cortex activity to single-trial H-reflex size in rats WCC Halls A-C · Board C25 Poster Tue Nov 17 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR275: Auditory Perception and Cognition in Humans and Animals Dorsal auditory cortex preferentially encodes task outcome during active listening WCC Halls A-C · Board DD24 Poster Tue Nov 17 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR275: Auditory Perception and Cognition in Humans and Animals Decision-making shapes auditory cortical responses to harmonic complex tones in noise WCC Halls A-C · Board EE7 Poster Tue Nov 17 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR294: Data Analysis and Statistics: Human Data II Small Heads, Big Challenges: Data-Driven MRI Quality Control and Demographic Predictors of Scan Quality in Preschoolers WCC Halls A-C · Board MM18 Poster Wed Nov 18 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR321: Stress-Modulated Pathways: Anatomy, Physiology, Neurochemistry Interplay between Social Isolation, Stress, and Serotonin in Crayfish WCC Halls A-C · Board FF15 Poster Wed Nov 18 8am–noon Part of Session PSTR338: Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Neural Data Channel Capacity as a novel time-resolved effective connectivity measure for intrinsic neural noise characterization WCC Halls A-C · Board LL92 Poster Wed Nov 18 1–5pm Part of Session LBP082: I.04. Executive Functions Investigating Phase-Amplitude Coupling as a Mechanism Underlying P3 generally, and P3 amplitude reduction in substance use disorder WCC Halls A-C · Board B44 Poster Wed Nov 18 1–5pm Part of Session PSTR349: Alzheimer's Disease: Spatial Transcriptomics Single-Cell Transcriptomic Insights into the Cardiovascular-Stroke Interface of AD/ADRD: A Systematic Review WCC Halls A-C · Board T27

Organization

SfN 2026 Attendance

University of Maryland, College Park

College Park, MD

umd.edu

Universities and research institutes

Public research university near Washington, DC; recruits for its neuroscience and cognitive science program.

At the Graduate School Fair, table 23B · University of Maryland, College Park Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program

Poster

Sat Nov 14
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR016: Auditory Perceptual Learning, Decision-Making, and Prediction: Animal Studies

Layer-Specific Correlates of Auditory Perceptual Learning in Primary Auditory Cortex

WCC Halls A-C · Board Z6

Poster

Sat Nov 14
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR016: Auditory Perceptual Learning, Decision-Making, and Prediction: Animal Studies

Midbrain dopaminergic neuron activity during auditory perceptual learning

WCC Halls A-C · Board Z7

Poster

Sat Nov 14
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR025: Emotional Processing in the Human Brain

Amygdala-targeted 10 Hz temporal interference stimulation attenuates anticipatory threat responses in humans

WCC Halls A-C · Board DD2

Poster

Sun Nov 15
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR044: Structural Plasticity and Extracellular Matrix Dynamics

Role of matrix metalloproteinases in the modulation of extracellular matrix integrity following auditory training

WCC Halls A-C · Board K8

Poster

Sun Nov 15
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR048: Neural Mechanisms of Aging

WCC Halls A-C · Board U1

Poster

Sun Nov 15
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR058: Olfaction Across Species and Behavior

Olfactory processing impairments induced by stress in juvenile mice

WCC Halls A-C · Board AA32

Poster

Sun Nov 15
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR073: Orbitofrontal, Corticolimbic Circuits, and Decision-Making

Get over it! Characterization of neural signals in NAc and anterior insula in rats performing a novel multistep perseverance task

WCC Halls A-C · Board II29

Session

Sun Nov 15
1–2pm

Part of Session MTE04: Meet-the-Expert: Wager — Thoughts, Beliefs, and the Body: The Construction and Regulation of Feelings

Moderator

WCC Rm 201

Poster

Sun Nov 15
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR095: Taste

Investigating the role of taste cells during parental care in a mouthbrooding cichlid fish

WCC Halls A-C · Board W28

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR142: Neuroethology: Vocal/Social Communication

Testosterone induces early song crystallization in male and increases volume of song control nuclei in female grasshopper sparrows

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC7

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR152: Neural Substrates of Opioid Seeking

Role of submedius thalamus and its interaction with orbitofrontal cortex in incubation of oxycodone craving

WCC Halls A-C · Board II28

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR152: Neural Substrates of Opioid Seeking

Proteomic profiling of projection-specific orbitostriatal synaptoneurosomes during incubation of oxycodone craving in male and female rats

WCC Halls A-C · Board II30

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR152: Neural Substrates of Opioid Seeking

Circuit-level directed connectivity and dynamic brain-state alterations during incubation of oxycodone craving after forced abstinence in male rats

WCC Halls A-C · Board II31

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR158: Language: Neural Circuits and Mechanisms II

Spatiotemporal dynamics and age-related changes in language production revealed by magnetoencephalography

WCC Halls A-C · Board LL24

Poster

Mon Nov 16
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR161: Data Analysis and Statistics: Human Data I

First Digit Distributions Reveal Highly Reproducible Benford Conformity in EEG and MEG Power Spectra

WCC Halls A-C · Board LL78

Poster

Mon Nov 16
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR169: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Brain Aging

Cortical Impact of Auditory Training Types on Hierarchical Language Representations

WCC Halls A-C · Board M1

Poster

Mon Nov 16
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR178: Pain Imaging and Perception

Central Post-Stroke Pain Reduction: Evidence of Cortical and Network Reorganization in Physiological Bands

WCC Halls A-C · Board W20

Poster

Mon Nov 16
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR182: Neural Basis of Human Speech: Perception and Production

Acoustic and linguistic auditory temporal response functions encode attentional modulation during continuous active speech listening

WCC Halls A-C · Board Y32

Poster

Mon Nov 16
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR191: Cardiovascular Regulation

Frontal midline theta and vagally mediated heart rate variability in cortical-autonomic regulation during meditation

WCC Halls A-C · Board EE4

Poster

Mon Nov 16
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR197: Hallucinogens: Neural Mechanisms of Action

Serotonergic psychedelics alter sensory processing in mouse auditory cortex

WCC Halls A-C · Board HH18

Poster

Mon Nov 16
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR198: Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Attention in Humans

Concurrent EEG and MEG Shows Differences Between Monolinguals and Bilinguals in Auditory Stream Segregation

WCC Halls A-C · Board II16

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR231: Visual Cortex: Populations

Deep neural networks with high temporal resolution enhances computational distinctions of V1 neurons

WCC Halls A-C · Board CC4

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR245: Clinical and Applied Mechanisms of Attention in Humans

Long-Lasting Effects of Psychedelics on Neural Connectivity Associated with Goal-Directed Behavior in Humans

WCC Halls A-C · Board KK53

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR250: Population Dynamics and Neural Representations

Selective neural-BOLD state correspondence reveals a conserved brain-state motif across modalities and species

WCC Halls A-C · Board LL88

Poster

Tue Nov 17
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR250: Population Dynamics and Neural Representations

Stimulus-anchored autoregression reveals shared and individualized movie-evoked fMRI trajectories

WCC Halls A-C · Board MM7

Poster

Tue Nov 17
1–5pm

Part of Session LBP059: A.08. Adolescent Development

Development of a child-friendly fMRI task to capture neural function during sustained attention and attention shifting

WCC Halls A-C · Board B33

Poster

Tue Nov 17
1–5pm

Part of Session LBP066: F.05. Brain-Machine Interface

ARC--Autoencoder for Reflex Conditioning: A self-supervised pipeline relating sensorimotor cortex activity to single-trial H-reflex size in rats

WCC Halls A-C · Board C25

Poster

Tue Nov 17
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR275: Auditory Perception and Cognition in Humans and Animals

Dorsal auditory cortex preferentially encodes task outcome during active listening

WCC Halls A-C · Board DD24

Poster

Tue Nov 17
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR275: Auditory Perception and Cognition in Humans and Animals

Decision-making shapes auditory cortical responses to harmonic complex tones in noise

WCC Halls A-C · Board EE7

Poster

Tue Nov 17
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR294: Data Analysis and Statistics: Human Data II

Small Heads, Big Challenges: Data-Driven MRI Quality Control and Demographic Predictors of Scan Quality in Preschoolers

WCC Halls A-C · Board MM18

Poster

Wed Nov 18
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR321: Stress-Modulated Pathways: Anatomy, Physiology, Neurochemistry

Interplay between Social Isolation, Stress, and Serotonin in Crayfish

WCC Halls A-C · Board FF15

Poster

Wed Nov 18
8am–noon

Part of Session PSTR338: Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Neural Data

Channel Capacity as a novel time-resolved effective connectivity measure for intrinsic neural noise characterization

WCC Halls A-C · Board LL92

Poster

Wed Nov 18
1–5pm

Part of Session LBP082: I.04. Executive Functions

Investigating Phase-Amplitude Coupling as a Mechanism Underlying P3 generally, and P3 amplitude reduction in substance use disorder

WCC Halls A-C · Board B44

Poster

Wed Nov 18
1–5pm

Part of Session PSTR349: Alzheimer's Disease: Spatial Transcriptomics

Single-Cell Transcriptomic Insights into the Cardiovascular-Stroke Interface of AD/ADRD: A Systematic Review

WCC Halls A-C · Board T27

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