Connectionists: GEM 2025 - Conference on generative episodic memory - call for abstracts

[Vinita Samarasinghe]

The DFG-funded research consortium “FOR 2812 – Constructing scenarios of 
the past” is proud to announce a *call for abstracts* for its biennial 
conference “/Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary persepectives 
from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy/” *GEM 202**5.* It will be 
held *in person* at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany from 2^nd to 
4^th June, 2025. For more information please visit 
https://for2812.rub.de/gem2025.

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 conference therefore aims to bring together 
researchers from all relevant fields to advance the state of the art in 
the research on generative episodic memory.

*Keynote speakers: *

Ali Boyle (LSE); Neil Burgess (UCL); Iris Engelhard (U. Utrecht); 
Johannes Mahr (York U.); Jeremy Manning (Dartmouth)

*Funding for early career researchers is available *(visit our ECR page 
<https://for2812.rub.de/gem2025/early_career_researcher_programs> for 
more details).


      *Abstract* submission deadline: 15.03.2025


      Submission guidelines:

Abstracts must be submitted in English and be no longer than 500 words. 
Submitted work must be original and unpublished and submitted 
electronically at https://www.conftool.net/gem202 
<https://www.conftool.net/gem2023/>5/ <https://www.conftool.net/gem2023/>.

Types of submissions:

  *

    Talk

  *

    Symposium: Must comprise 3 talks and be interdisciplinary in nature,
    i.e., talks must cover at least two of the following disciplines:
    computational neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience.

  *

    Poster

/*For more information please visit https://for2812.rub.de or contact 
Vinita Samarasinghe at for2812 at rub.de*/


Kind regards,

Vinita

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

Science Manager
Arbeitsgruppe Computational Neuroscience
Institut für Neuroinformatik
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, NB 3/73
Postfachnummer 110
Universitätstr. 150
D-44801 Bochum

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