Ali Boyle
London School of Economics
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GEM 2025 will be 100% in-person. We look forward to welcoming you in Bochum, Germany. Our call for abstracts is open!
This conference is organized and funded by the DFG-funded research group FOR 2812 "Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory". On-site childcare can be provided on request. Please request on registration.
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
Neil Burgess
University College London
Iris Engelhard
Utrecht University
Johannes Mahr
York University
Jeremy Manning
Dartmouth College
Call for abstracts
We invite submissions for symposia, talks and posters. Please note that all presentations are in person.
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 Submitted work must be original and unpublished and submitted electronically at https://www.conftool.net/gem2025/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:
- 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 include talks from at least two of the following disciplines: computational neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and must be comprised of 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.
Abstract submission deadlines [GMT +1 (CET)]:
Abstract submission – 15.03.2025
Notification of acceptance – 15.04.2025
Early Career Researcher Programs
Are you a PhD student or a postdoc? Then check out our programs for early career researchers.
- PhD Symposium [program TBA]
- Fireside chat
- Financial support
Tentative program
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Monday 02.06.2025 |
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Tuesday 03.06.2025 |
Keynote | Talks | Talks | Talks | Poster session | Keynote | |||
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Wednesday 04.06.2025 |
Keynote | Talks | Keynote | Fireside Chat | |||||
Contact
If you have any questions or need any additional information please do not hesitate to contact us at for2812+gem@rub.de.
Coordinator: Vinita Samarasinghe | +49 (0)234 32 27996 | NB3/73 Ruhr University Bochum
Speaker of FOR 2812: Sen Cheng
Follow us on Bluesky @for2812.bsky.social or tag us #gem2025
Downloads:
The research unit FOR 2812 "Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory" is a project funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG). The research unit studies the cognitive and neuronal mechanisms underlying scenario construction in episodic memory. We employ and integrate approaches from Philosophy, Psychology, and Experimental and Computational Neuroscience.
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44801 Bochum, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)234 32 27996
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