GEM 2025 – Call for Abstracts
*GEM 2025 – Call for Abstracts*
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 2025. It will be
held in person at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany from 2nd to
4thJune, 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Submitted work must be original and unpublished and submitted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/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.
—
Maja Griem, M.A., M.Sc.
Science Management
*Center for Mind & Cognition*
*RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM (RUB)*
GA 3/153
phone: +49-(0)-234-32-12435
e-mail: center-mindcognition@rub.de
web: https://philosophy-cognition.com/cmc/