ABOUT ICOM7

The International Conference on Memory (ICOM) has connected the global memory community for over three decades—uniting perspectives from experimental psychology, animal and human neuroscience, philosophy, computational modelling, and clinical and applied domains. Our previous meeting in Budapest (2016) gathered over 1,500 participants and celebrated the depth and breadth of contemporary memory science.

After an extended hiatus, ICOM returns on 26–30 July 2026 in Glasgow, UK*.

ICOM7 will feature:

• Keynotes, symposia, posters, and debates designed to foster collaboration across methods, model systems, and disciplines.
• Cross‑species & cross‑approach sessions that bridge cellular and circuit mechanisms with human cognition, behaviour, and real‑world memory.
• Thematic tracks spanning episodic & associative memory, naturalistic events & narratives, autobiographical memory, prospection & the self, semantic knowledge, learning & plasticity, neural circuits & systems dynamics, memory control, memory transformation & consolidation, working/short‑term & sensory memory, emotion & stress, and development, ageing, and clinical & applied translation.
• Satellite events before the main conference (details to be announced).

Whether you work with humans, other animals or non-human systems, if you work on memory then ICOM7 will offer many opportunities to build new links across the field.

Join us in Glasgow: sign up for announcements and deadlines, and be part of the ICOM community.

The ICOM Organising Committee