Connectionists: GEM 2021 - Registration deadline update

[Vinita Samarasinghe]

*GEM 2021 - Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary perspectives 
from psychology, neuroscience and philosophy*
https://for2812.rub.de/gem2021 <https://for2812.rub.de/gem2021>
16-18 February 2021

This workshop will take place in virtual space and is free of charge. 
The program is available at https://for2812.rub.de/gem2021program 
<https://for2812.rub.de/gem2021program>

*The deadline for registration has been extended to 31.01.2021*. Please 
visit our website <https://for2812.rub.de/gem2021> to register.

*Abstract:*

Episodic memories are widely regarded as memories of personally 
experienced events. Early concepts about episodic memory were based on 
the storage model, according to which experiential content is preserved 
in memory and later retrieved. However, overwhelming empirical evidence 
suggests that the content of episodic memory is – at least to a certain 
degree – constructed in the act of remembering. Even though very few 
contemporary researchers would oppose this view of episodic memory as a 
generative process, it has not become the standard paradigm of empirical 
memory research. This is particularly true for studies of the neural 
correlates of episodic memory. Further hindering progress are large 
conceptual differences regarding episodic memory across different 
fields, such as neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. This 
interdisciplinary workshop therefore aims to bring together researchers 
from all relevant fields to advance the state of the art in the research 
on generative episodic memory.

FOR 2812 “Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in 
episodic memory” consists of 9 projects. Seven from the Ruhr University 
Bochum and two from the University of Münster. The consortium adopts an 
interdisciplinary approach and investigates generative episodic memory 
from a conceptual, modeling, and experimental perspective using a common 
conceptual framework: scenario construction.


      Keynote Speakers:

Karl-Heinz Bäuml - University Regensburg, Germany
Dorthe Berntsen - Aarhus University, Denmark
Amy Criss - Syracuse University, USA
Dorothea Debus - University of Konstanz, Germany
David Huber - University of Massachusetts, USA
Sarah Robins - University of Kansas, USA

All questions regarding the workshop should be emailed to for2812 at rub.de 
<mailto:for2812 at rub.de>

Coordinator - Vinita Samarasinghe
Secretary - Christiane Dahl

-- 
Vinita Samarasinghe M.Sc., M.A.

Science Manager
Arbeitsgruppe Computational Neuroscience
Institut für Neuroinformatik
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, NB 3/26
Postfachnummer 110
Universitätstr. 150
44801 Bochum

Tel: +49 (0) 234 32 27996
Email: samarasinghe at ini.rub.de

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