FOR 2812 welcomes Mercator Fellow Prof. Dr Peggy St Jacques from the University of Alberta
- Vinita Samarasinghe, M.A. M.Sc.
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- June 26, 2019
Prof. Dr Peggy St Jacques, Mercator Fellow of the research unit, will be visiting us from June 26th to July 13th. She is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, lab director of "Memory for Events Lab" and serves as reviewer for multiple international journals.
St Jacques investigates the cognitive and neural mechanisms by which retrieval updates subsequent memories. Using experimental behavioural and functional MRI approaches she characterizes how manipulating visual perspective influences the accuracy and phenomenology of episodic and autobiographical memories. During her visit, she will collaborate with several projects and help advise junior researchers of the research unit.
St Jacques will give two talks during her stay. One at the Ruhr University Bochum and one at the University of Münster. Please see our events page for details regarding the upcoming talks.
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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