APCAM 2026
Call for Abstracts
25th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting (APCAM 2026)
Abstract submissions open Monday, July 20, 2026 and close Sunday, September 13 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.
Please contact the APCAM organizing committee chair, Laura Getz (lgetz@sandiego.edu) with questions.
The 25th annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting (APCAM) will occur on Thursday, November 19, 2026 in San Diego, California preceding the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. The goal of APCAM is to bring together researchers from different perspectives to present focused research on auditory perception, cognition, and aurally-guided action. To support this, APCAM’s Organizing Committee welcomes submissions on a wide variety of empirical, theoretical, and methodological topics in auditory science:
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Psychoacoustics and Basic Auditory Perception
- Psychoacoustics / methodology
- Pitch, loudness, and timbre perception
- Temporal processing and timing
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Spatial Hearing and Auditory Scene Analysis
- Auditory scene analysis
- Sound localization, source identification, and motion perception
- Aurally-guided action and navigation
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Speech and Language Processing
- Speech perception and production
- Language learning and performance
- Bilingualism and multilingualism
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Music Processing
- Music perception, cognition, and performance
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Auditory Cognition
- Auditory attention and listening effort
- Auditory memory and imagery
- Affective and emotional processing of sound
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Auditory Neuroscience and Biological Foundations
- Auditory neuroscience / neural coding
- Comparative auditory processing
- Auditory development and aging
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Multisensory Auditory Processing
- Cross-modal correspondences
- Multisensory integration
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Hearing, Hearing Loss, and Clinical Audiology
- Hearing and hearing loss
- Clinical audiology
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Auditory Technology and Real-World Sound Environments
- Hearing technology and applications
- Virtual reality and spatial audio
- Environmental and ecological acoustics
Submissions should include an abstract of 300 words or less, the title of the presentation, names and affiliations for all contributing authors as they should appear in the conference program (indicating any co-first or co-last authorships), e-mail contact information for the first/presenting author, and a preference for spoken or poster presentation format. If there are more accepted abstracts with a spoken presentation preference than available presentation slots, preference will be given to abstracts judged to represent the strongest contributions and to authors who did not deliver a spoken presentation at APCAM 2025. You may submit only one presentation as first/presenting author, but you can co-author as many presentations as you wish. Please note that submission of the same talk or poster to APCAM 2026 and to the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society is not permitted.
Submissions open July 20, 2026. All abstracts should be submitted online by following the "Submit an Abstract" link on the APCAM tab of the Auditory Perception and Cognition Society (APCS) website (https://apcsociety.org/apcam-submit.html). The deadline for abstract submission is September 13, 2026 (11:59pm Pacific time). Authors will be notified about the status of their submission by October 9, 2026.
As always, please share information about APCAM with colleagues who might be interested. We look forward to receiving your submission and to seeing you at the meeting.
Sincerely,
Laura Getz
Chair, Organizing Committee, APCAM 2026
lgetz@sandiego.edu
AP&C Brief Report Publications
Presenters at APCAM 2026 can submit a brief report based on their presentation for consideration for publication in a special issue of AP&C. You will be asked to indicate your interest in submitting a brief report with your abstract submission.
AP&C brief reports are not to be confused with traditional conference proceedings in that they are longer (10–15 APA-formatted pages for the main text) and are peer-reviewed. However, publishing a brief report does not preclude submission of an expanded paper to AP&C or another journal at a later time. The deadline for submitting your brief report will be January 31, 2027. For more information on AP&C or the special issue, contact the AP&C journal co-editors, Michael Hall (hallmd@jmu.edu) and Mike Russell (mirussell@bellevue.edu).
Apply for APCS Travel and Membership Awards
After you submit your abstract, eligible participants are encouraged to apply for our APCS Travel and Membership Awards. The due date for travel award applications is the same as the abstract submission deadline, September 13, 2026. Graduate and undergraduate students from underrepresented populations, broadly defined, are eligible to apply for a $500 USD travel award to support attendance at our annual APCAM meeting. In addition, all participants with financial need, regardless of rank, are eligible to apply for a membership award that includes free APCS membership and APCAM registration. For more information about the awards, please contact Society Awards Committee Chair, Matt Wisniewski (mgwisniewski@ksu.edu).
APCS Membership
To support the mission of APCAM, APCS, and the affiliate journal Auditory Perception & Cognition (AP&C), there is a registration fee of $40 USD for PhD professionals and $30 USD for graduate students (the registration fee is waived for undergraduate students). In addition to providing access to APCAM materials, the registration fee includes a one-year membership to APCS, an individual subscription to AP&C, and reduced open-access publication fees for AP&C. For more details about APCS membership, see https://apcsociety.org/membership.html or contact APCS Treasurer, Jenny Roche (jroche3@kent.edu).