ICCM26: The 24th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel Montreal, Canada, July 17-21, 2026

Conference Details

The MathPsych/ICCM 2026 Conference Organizing Committee invites abstracts for talks, posters, and symposia to be presented at the 24th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM), which is co-located with the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology (MathPsych) at Le Centre Sheraton Montreal, Canada.

The dates of the conference are July 17 to 21, 2026. July 17, 2026 will be dedicated to workshops, and a Women of Mathematical Psychology-sponsored Professional Development Symposium Event. Talks and keynotes will take place July 18 to 20, 2026. The annual ACT-R Workshop will also be held at Le Centre Sheraton Montreal Hotel on July 21, 2026.  

The conference showcases leading research on computational theories of human cognition. We welcome contributions from the complete spectrum of formal approaches to modeling cognition, including connectionism, symbolic modeling, dynamical systems, Bayesian modeling, and cognitive architectures. 

Conference Submissions

Submissions can be submitted via the ICCM 2026 conference website at https://iccmsociety.org/2026_meeting/. The submission deadline is February 28, 2026, 23.59 anywhere on Earth. Decisions will be made by April 30, 2026. There will be no extensions on submission deadlines. This is to help us reach decisions on submissions promptly so people can obtain visas and make travel plans. 

Authors can submit for a special fast track poster decision, which will be made by March 13, 2026 (submit as "EARLY CONSIDERATION - ICCM Poster"). We hope this helps authors who need to apply for visas. If authors like, we will still consider the submission for a spoken presentation, but those decisions will not be posted until April 30, 2026. Note that if you would like to present a spoken presentation, you should submit twice -- both an early consideration submission and a talk submission.

The following types of submissions will be considered:

• ICCM Full Paper
• ICCM Publication Supported Abstract
• ICCM Poster
• Symposium (limited hybrid availability)
• Talk in a Symposium (limited hybrid availability)
• Workshops/Tutorials (limited hybrid availability)

Details on each submission type are below and available at iccmsociety.org/2026_meeting/ .

New Hybrid Format for 2026

This year, the virtual and in-person meetings will be integrated to allow for more global engagement. Note, this will not be a fully hybrid conference. We will do this in a few ways:

1. Attendees who cannot travel to the in-person meeting can submit SMP/ICCM presentations (talks or fast talks), which will be reviewed in the usual way. These submissions will include a video recording, which will be disseminated prior to in-person meeting. During the in-person meeting, there may be a few opportunities for virtual speakers to engage with the in-person attendees such as a general Q&A session, or a limited number of ‘featured’ virtual talks. 
2. There will be one hybrid conference room, equipped with an Owl Labs Smart Device, to facilitate interaction among virtual and in-person registrants. Attendees may submit a hybrid symposia or workshop proposal, where at least the lead organizer is in-person, and a minimum of one presenter is virtual. 
3. The Society will record live presentations at the in-person meeting and disseminate them online after the conclusion of the meeting. These talks will be posted alongside virtual submissions, and the talks can be viewed asynchronously anytime. 

Important Dates:

• Submission Period Open: January 12, 2026 (Monday)
• Symposium Submission Period Ends (Virtual and In-Person): February 14, 2026 (Saturday)
• Submission Period Ends (Virtual and In-Person): February 28, 2026 (Saturday)
• Review Period Starts: March 2, 2026  (Monday)

• Quick Poster Decision (for presenters that need to apply for visas): March 13, 2026 (Friday)
• ICCM Full Paper Finalization Deadline: March 13, 2026 (Friday)
• Review Period Ends: April 3, 2026 (Friday)
• Registration: April 15, 2026 (Wednesday)
• Final Decisions: April 30, 2026 (Thursday)
• Virtual Talks Uploaded: June 05, 2026 (Friday)
• Virtual Talks Reviewed and Available Online: June 30, 2026 (Tuesday)
• In-Person Meeting July 17 to July 21, 2026
• In-person Meeting Talks Available Online: September 04, 2026

Looking forward to meeting you in Montreal!

The MathPsych/ICCM 2026 Conference Organizing Committee