I am a postdoctoral researcher.
My research centers on the topics of self-experience and self-understanding. More specifically I study the dynamic and diachronic interplay between reflective agency (e.g. narrative self-understanding) and unreflective agency (e.g. engagement with affordances).
In the FOR2812 project I zoom in on the modulatory role of memory in this interplay. For instance, I investigate how the narrative self influences scenario construction, and how the bodily self contributes to the phenomenology of episodic memory recall.
Although I am primarily trained as a philosopher, in my research I also draw on fields such as psychology, psychiatry and cognitive science.
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The Complex Phenomenology of Episodic Memory: Felt Connections, Multimodal Perspectivity, and Multifaceted SelvesDings, R., & McCarroll, C. J.Journal of Consciousness Studies, 29(11), 29–55What′s special about `not feeling like oneself′? A deflationary account of self(-illness) ambiguityDings, R., & de Bruin, L. C.Philosophical Explorations, 1–21Trügerische Erinnerung
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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