The DFG-funded research consortium “FOR 2812 – Constructing scenarios of the past” https://for2812.rub.de is proud to announce a call for abstracts for its biennial conference GEM 2023 (Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary perspectives from neuroscience, psychology and philosophy), which will be held in person at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany from 12th to 14th June 2023. For more information on the conference please visit https://for2812.rub.de/gem2023.
We invite submissions for symposia, talks and posters. Please note that all presentations are in person.
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.
Abstract submission
– 15.03.2023
Notification of acceptance – 15.04.2023
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 Submitted work must be original and unpublished and submitted electronically at https://www.conftool.net/gem2023/.
Types of submissions:
Talks
Symposia: In addition to submitting individual talks there is also the option to submit a set of talks (henceforth called symposium). Symposia must be interdisciplinary in nature, i.e., they must contain talks from at least two of the following disciplines: computational neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and must comprise 3 talks. Please note that if one or more of the talks that make up the symposium are rejected the remaining talks are not automatically rejected. They will be scheduled into the general program by the program committee.
Posters
Please ensure that your files are in PDF format and are no larger than 10 MB.
We look forward to welcoming you in Bochum.
Vinita Samarasinghe
Coordinator