Call for Nominations: 2026 Keynote Speaker

Nominations for the 2026 Keynote Speaker closed on September 12, 2025. 

2026 Annual Meeting | November 19-22, 2026 | Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, San Diego, California, USA

Deadline: September 12, 2025

All Psychonomic Society Fellows and Members are invited to nominate an eminent researcher to deliver the Keynote Address at the 2026 Annual Meeting.  

About Nominees

• May be a Psychonomic Society member or non-member.
• Research should demonstrate excellence in cognition and who would give a compelling talk. A list of current and previous keynote speakers is below.
• Consider diversity: The Psychonomic Society is committed to scientific merit, which entails the inclusion of scientists of all genders, races, sexual orientations, countries of origin, geographical locations, and disciplinary expertise. Please critically examine your deliberations to eliminate biases that detract from our commitment to merit.
  

Nominations for the 2026 Keynote Address close on September 12.

2001 William K. Estes Indiana University (Inaugural Keynote)	2002 Roger Shepard Stanford University	2003 Gordon Bower Stanford University	2004 Anne Treisman Princeton University
2005 Michael Posner University of Oregon	2006 Mary C. Potter Massachusetts Institute of Technology	2007 Marcia K. Johnson Yale University	2008 Daniel Kahneman Princeton University
2009 Henry L. Roediger, III Washington University in St. Louis (video)	2010 Robert A. Bjork University of California, Los Angeles (video)	2011 Nora Newcombe Temple University (video)	2012 John Anderson Carnegie Mellon University (video)
2013 Elizabeth F. Loftus University of California, Irvine (video)	2014 Larry Jacoby Washington University in St. Louis (video)	2015 Asher Koriat University of Haifa, Israel (video)	2016 Roberta L. Klatzky Carnegie Mellon University (video)
2017 Randall W. Engle Georgia Institute of Technology (video)	2018 Hal Pashler University of California, San Diego (video)	2019 Judith F. Kroll University of California, (video)	2020 Lynn Hasher University of Toronto, Canada (video)
2021 Gary Dell University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (video)	2022 Jeremy Wolfe Harvard Medical School/Brigham Women's Hospital, USA (video)	2023 Jennifer Eberhardt Stanford University, USA (Video Unavailable)	2024 Nelson Cowan University of Missouri, USA