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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">The Cognitive Development Center at CEU is pleased to announce the 17th annual BCCCD</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">meeting
in Budapest, Hungary. The meeting will be held between January 7th and January 9th, 2027.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span></p>
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Dautriche</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> (Aix-Marseille University) </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">Alongside our invited program, we welcome symposium, talk, and poster submissions reporting studies from all fields of cognitive
development. Previous BCCCD</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">meetings
featured a wide range of topics, such as communication, pragmatics, social cognition, conceptual development, language acquisition, numeracy, object cognition, perceptual learning, inductive learning, memory, executive function, metacognition, cognitive bases
of culture, and comparative cognition.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span></p>
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for posters as well. You can find the timeline of the submission and review process below or at this link:
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">We also welcome proposals for half-day pre-conference workshops or tutorials relevant to the</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">BCCCD</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">audience.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"><u>Submission opens</u>: June 22, 2026 </span></p>
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in-person in Budapest. While CEU has relocated much of its operations to Vienna, we would like to reassure all prospective participants that we are committed to maintaining the tradition of the Budapest campus of CEU as the site of</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">BCCCD</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 22.0875px;">meetings
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