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 perspectives 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.
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 for more details).
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 Submitted work must be original and unpublished and submitted electronically at https://www.conftool.net/gem2025/.
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@rub.de
Kind regards,
-- 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@ini.rub.de