Due to the ongoing global pandemic, the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society was held in a primarily virtual environment.  However, in an exciting integration of some hybrid components in the conference, a live keynote and welcome from the University of Vienna was the introduction to CogSci 2021.

The meeting adhered to the traditional meeting structure of previous conferences with keynotes, award talks and invited panel presentations, including the Elman and Rumelhart Symposia, Glushko Award talks, Rumelhart keynote by Susan Goldin-Meadow, and the Heineken Award keynote by Robert Zatorre.  In addition to the keynotes and award sessions, the meeting had individual talk presentations, contributed symposia sessions as well as poster presentations, complete with short videos.  Talks were available as pre-recorded videos in advance of the conference and are available for up to two years post conference for registered delegates.  Delegates and presenters participated in LIVE Q&A following all presentations to encourage discussion and future collaborations.