| Abbreviation | Name of Conference / Organization | URL | Typical attendance | Month of conference | Frequency | First submission deadline |
| ASA | Acoustical Society of America | http://asa.aip.org | ~700 presentations | May & Nov | semi-annual | Jan & Jul |
| AERA | American Educational Research Association | www.aera.net | ~12,000-13,000 | Apr | annual | Aug |
| APA | American Psychological Association | www.apa.org | 12,000 | Jul/Aug | annual | Nov |
| APS | American Psychological Society | www.psychologicalscience.org | 2,000 | May | annual | Feb |
| ASSC | Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness | http://assc.caltech.edu | 100+ | Jun | annual | |
| ASTC | Association of Science Technology Centers | www.astc.org | 1500 | Sep-Nov | annual | Dec |
| CDS | Cognitive Development Society | www.cogdevsoc.org | 300 | Oct/Nov | biennial (odd yrs) | Jun |
| CNS | Cognitive Neuroscience Society | www.cogneurosociety.org | ~1000 presentations | Apr | annual | Jan |
| CogSci | Cognitive Science Society | www.cognitivesciencesociety.org | ~500 | Jul/Aug | annual | Feb |
| CoSyNe | Computational and Systems Neuroscience | http://zadorlab.cshl.edu/cosyne04.html | ~200-300 | Mar | annual | Dec |
| CSCL | Computer Support for Collaborative Learning | www.isls.org | several hundred | summer (varies) | biennial (odd yrs; some even yrs?) | Jan (varies) |
| EARLI | European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction | www.earli.org | 1000+ | Aug | biennial (odd yrs) | Nov |
| Evolution of Language | www.ling.ed.ac.uk/evolang2002/ | ~250 | Mar | biennial (even yrs) | Oct | |
| ICLS | International Conference for Learning Sciences | www.isls.org | Jun | biennial (even yrs) | Nov | |
| ICCM | International Conference on Cognitive Modeling | 150 | spring/summer | annual | Apr | |
| NARST | National Association for Research in Science Teaching | www.narst.org | ~800 | Apr | annual | Aug |
| NIPS | Neural Information Processing Systems | www.nips.cc | ~600-800 | Dec | annual | Jun |
| Psychonomic Society | www.psychonomic.org | ~800 | Nov | annual | Jun | |
| Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment | www.grc.uri.edu | Sep | biennial (even yrs) | early summer | ||
| JDM | Society for Judgment and Decision Making | www.sjdm.org | ~400-600 | Nov[1] | annual | Jul |
| SPSP | Society for Personality and Social Psychology | www.spsp.org | ~1000-1500 | Jan/Feb | annual | Jul/Aug |
| SRCD | Society for Research in Child Development | www.srcd.org | 3000? | Apr | biennial (odd yrs) | Jul |
| SBM | Society of Behavioral Medicine | www.sbm.org | 1000+ | Mar | annual | Sep |