GEM 2025 – Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy
Bochum, Germany
Organiser: Other
Attendance type(s): In Person
Event Dates: 02—4 Jun 2025
- 02/06/2025
- 03/06/2025
- 04/06/2025
Registration Deadline: 30 Apr 2024
The DFG-funded research consortium “FOR 2812 – Constructing scenarios of the past” is proud to announce its biennial conference “Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary persepectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy” GEM 2025. It will be held in person at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany from 2nd to 4th 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.
Contact Details
Name: Sen Cheng
Address: Arbeitsgruppe Computational Neuroscience Institut für Neuroinformatik Ruhr-Universität Bochum, NB 3/33 Postfachnummer 110 Universitätstr. 150 44801 Bochum
Email: for2812+gem@rub.de