EWOMS 2026 | 11th European Working Memory Symposium

EWOMS is a recurring, high-profile event dedicated to the study of working memory, held every two years at rotating European locations. This year it will be held on Aug 26-28 at Lyon (France). Abstract submission deadline is March 13th, 2026

Posted Feb 27, 2026

By Amahury J. L. Díaz

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Introduction

EWOMS is a recurring, high-profile event dedicated to the study of working memory, held every two years at rotating European locations. The 11th edition will take place in Lyon, France, from August 26th to 28th, 2026. The 2026 theme — Working Memory, Strategy, and Consciousness — aims to bridge traditional cognitive perspectives and neuroscientific approaches to working memory (WM). We will explore how strategic control processes, awareness, and unconscious mechanisms interact to shape WM performance. Key thematic questions may include: What are the strategic processes modulating working memory and how do they vary across tasks and individuals? How do conscious and unconscious mechanisms interact during encoding, maintenance, and retrieval in WM? What neural correlates underpin these strategic and awareness-related components of WM? To what extent are current WM models sufficient to explain these phenomena? But as tradition dictates, all research related to working memory will also be welcome.

The 2026 theme — Working Memory, Strategy, and Consciousness — aims to bridge traditional cognitive perspectives and neuroscientific approaches to working memory (WM). We will explore how strategic control processes, awareness, and unconscious mechanisms interact to shape WM performance. Key thematic questions may include: What are the strategic processes modulating working memory and how do they vary across tasks and individuals? How do conscious and unconscious mechanisms interact during encoding, maintenance, and retrieval in WM? What neural correlates underpin these strategic and awareness-related components of WM? To what extent are current WM models sufficient to explain these phenomena? But as tradition dictates, all research related to working memory will also be welcome.