Deadline approaching

[CogSci Summer School]

Advanced Interdisciplinary Workshop
on
Constructive Memory: Data and Models

Sofia, New Bulgarian University, July 12-14, 2003



The aim of the workshop will be to challenge our current understanding of
human memory by integrating data with theoretical and computational models
and by bringing researchers from a variety of domains together.

The workshop topics will include:
*	False Memory and Memory Illusions
*	Interaction between memory and reasoning, between memory and
imagination
*	Autobiographical memory
*	Spatial Memory
*	Memory for Actions and Events
*	Memory for Faces and Objects
*	WM and constructive processes
*	Context-Sensitivity of Human Memory
*	Collective memory


The workshop is deliberately interdisciplinary and will cover a variety of
methods:
*	lab experiments
*	field studies
*	computer simulations
*	mathematical models
*	brain imaging
*	brain lesions


The workshop program will consist of invited key speaker talks which will
be challenged by discussants, short talks by regular participants, and
numerous discussions and working groups.

 In parallel to the workshop an International Summer School in Cognitive
Science will take place.


Key talks

*        Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emergence of
Theory-like Knowledge from Experience:  A Parallel-Distributed Processing
Account
*        Elizabeth Loftus (University of Washington, USA) - False Memories
and Other Mind Changes
*        Alan Baddeley (University of Bristol, UK) - Constructive Processes
in Working Memory
*        Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA) - The Seven Sins of
Memory: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
*        Morris Moscovitch (University of Toronto, Canada) Remote Memory,
Consolidation and Hippocampal-Neocortical Interaction: Evidence from the
Laboratory and Clinic.
*        Robert Bjork and Elizabeth Bjork (University of California, Los
Angeles, USA) - The Role of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting in the
Construction and Distortion of Memories
*        Michael Anderson (University of Oregon, USA) - Inhibitory
Processes and the Regulation of Awareness
*        Martin Conway (University of Durham, UK) & Amanda Barnier
(University of New South Wales, Australia) - On the Accessibility of
Autobiographical Memories: Shaping the Self
*        Johannes Engelkamp (Saarland University, Germany) - What is
Special about Memory for Actions?
*        William Hirst (New School for Social Research, NY, USA) The
Construction of a Collective Memory
*        Jeroen Raaijmakers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) -
Towards a General Theory of Human Memory
*        Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) - The AMBR Model of
Episodic Memory Construction and Distortion: Interaction between Memory and
Reasoning



Call for Papers

Potential participants are invited to submit papers in electronic form (MS
Word or PDF format) for presentation during the workshop. The papers should
be not longer than 10 single spaced pages, including tables, figures,
references, and appendices and use Times New Roman Font size 10. The papers
may address any of the topics described above. Interdisciplinary work is
especially welcome. Priority will be given to papers that open up new
issues, challenge the current understanding of human memory, present new
models or data.

Papers should be sent by April 1st 2003 to the following address:
memory at cogs.nbu.bg

Program Committee

Michael Anderson (University of Oregon, USA)
Alan Baddeley (University of Bristol, UK)
Robert Bjork (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Martin Conway (University of Durham, UK)
Johannes Engelkamp (Saarland University, Germany)
William Hirst (New School for Social Research, NY, USA) - Co-Chair
Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) - Co-Chair
Elizabeth Loftus (University of Washington, USA)
Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Morris Moscovitch (University of Toronto, Canada)
Jeroen Raaijmakers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA)

For more information look at:
http://www.nbu.bg/cogs/events/workshop.html

Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science
New Bulgarian University
21 Montevideo Str.
Sofia 1618
phone: 955-75-18
e-mail: school at cogs.nbu.bg
         memory at cogs.nbu.bg




Radostina Belcheva
Administrative manager
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science

Svetlana Petkova
Administrative manager
Central and East European Center for Cognitive Science