Abstract Submission

Invitation to Submit Abstracts

Abstract Submissions are CLOSED

We invite abstract submissions of relevant work to be presented as a poster presentation at the 2012 Society for Social Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, October 11-12, immediately preceding the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. We welcome abstracts reporting recent results in the field of social behavior and its neural underpinnings, whether they involve animal or human subjects. Investigators at any career stage are encouraged to present posters or contributed 9-minute talks. Contributed talks will be selected from among the abstracts based on available space and overall balance. Abstracts that are not accepted for contributed talks will be automatically considered for poster presentation.

Poster Submission GUIDELINES

To submit a poster, the presenting author of the poster should:

  1. Provide the name of the presenting author and co-authors for the proposed poster.
  2. Prepare a 500-word abstract that summarizes your results.
  3. Submit your abstract online.

During the submission process you will be asked whether the presenting author wishes to present the submitted work as a poster presentation or a contributed talk. Contributed talks are presented in dedicated symposia on the first day of the meeting in a short-talk format (9 minutes + 3 minutes for questions). Contributed talks will be selected by the Program Committee, attempting to balance diversity of disciplines and topics.

After submitting, you will receive a confirmation email containing the details of your submission. This email confirms that your abstract was received and will be reviewed by the S4SN review committee. Incomplete abstract or submission will be rejected after a review process.

Acceptance notifications will be emailed by June 15, 2012.

Abstract Content

Please follow these guidelines when submitting your abstract. The Presenting Author is responsible for assurance of adherence to these guidelines and of the merit of the presentation.

  • It is acceptable to submit an abstract that has also been submitted to SfN.
  • Your abstract must contain the specific goals of the study, the methods used, a summary of the results, and a conclusion. It is not satisfactory to say, "The results will be discussed."
  • The abstract title should clearly define the work discussed.
  • Abbreviations (of compounds, for example) must be spelled out in full at the first use. Do not use abbreviations in the title. Use only standard abbreviations.
  • Capitalize the first letter of all trade names.
  • You will be asked to choose an appropriate keyword for your abstract, which will be used for session planning.
  • The abstract must be in one paragraph and cannot contain more than 500 words. The 500-word limit does not include the title, author or affiliation information.
  • Do not add formatting to your abstract. Italic, bold, tabs and extra spaces are not permitted and will not appear in the final program.
  • Please do not enter the abstract title, author names, or affiliations in all uppercase or all lowercase letters. Sentence capitalization or title capitalization should be used for entering your abstract title.
  • Please do not enter department names with the Affiliation. Removing these creates extra work during the publishing process.

If you have questions about your submission, please contact the Program Committee at .