THE REVIEW PROCESS:

Submissions will be judged and accepted for the meeting based on clarity, substance and appropriateness for the meeting.  It is particularly important that the biological relevance of the research be made clear.  CNS strongly believes in the open exchange of ideas and rejections are usually based on absence of biological relevance (e.g., pure machine learning). We will notify authors of meeting acceptance in early April.
Submissions to be considered for oral presentation will be reviewed by two independent referees and results of the review process will be used to construct the oral program.  In addition to perceived quality and significance, the novelty of the research and the diversity and coherence of the overall program will be considerations for selection as an oral presentation.  To ensure diversity, those who have given talks in the recent past will not be selected and multiple oral presentations from the same lab will be discouraged.  Most oral presentations will be 20 minutes in length, but a few papers will be selected for longer “featured oral” presentations.  All accepted papers not selected for oral talks may be presented during the poster sessions.  Authors will be notified of the presentation format of their papers by the end of April.