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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 02/June/2025
9:00am
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12:00pm
PhD Symposium
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Chair: Marius Boeltzig
1:00pm
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2:50pm
Opening Session, Keynote: Episodic memory in animals: The problem of alternatives - Ali Boyle
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Chair: Sen Cheng
 

Episodic memory in animals: The problem of alternatives

Alexandria Boyle

London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

2:50pm
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3:15pm
Coffee/Tea Break
3:15pm
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4:45pm
Memory errors: Perspectives from philosophy and psychology
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 
3:15pm - 4:45pm

Memory errors: Perspectives from philosophy and psychology

Chair(s): André Sant'Anna (University of Geneva, Switzerland)

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

Temporal distortions and confabulation: unraveling the neurocognitive mechanisms behind autobiographical false memories

Valentina La Corte
Université de Paris Cité, France

 

Philosophical accounts of confabulation: (why) should empirical memory researchers care?

Kourken Michaelian
Université Grenoble Alpes, France

 

Consciousness, metacognition, and the nature of successful remembering and imagining

André Sant'Anna1, Christopher Jude McCarroll2
1University of Geneva, Switzerland, 2National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Imagination and memory
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 
3:15pm - 3:45pm

Memory and imagination: toward discontinuist simulationism

Juan F. Álvarez

Ruhr Universität Bochum - Université Grenoble Alpes



3:45pm - 4:15pm

Reconstructing the past, imagining the future: network dynamics in memory and imagination

Christine Kindler1,2, Julia Taube1,2, Pitshaporn Leelaarporn1,2, Cornelia McCormick1,2

1: Department for Old Age Psychiatry and Cognitive Disorders, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany; 2: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany



4:15pm - 4:45pm

“I always knew it”: Self-serving biases moderate the relationship between future thinking and episodic remembering in the context of elections

Marius Boeltzig1, Ricarda I. Schubotz1, Scott Cole2, Clare Rathbone3

1: University of Münster, Germany; 2: York St John University, United Kingdom; 3: Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom

5:00pm
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6:30pm
Poster session 1
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 

Do Sleep and Prediction Error affect the Directionality of Memory Associations?

Abbie Louisa Greenwood

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom



Does cognitive neuroscience research on mental imagery need behaviour?

Lydia Moonen

Radboud University, Netherlands, The



Cognitive flexibility: a behavioral and EEG entropy study on the role of open monitoring meditation

Emma Icardi1,2, Anindita Basu1, Nicola De Pisapia2, Alessandro Treves1

1: SISSA, Trieste; 2: University of Trento



Stochastic echoes: Variability in phonological recall in bilingual and monolingual speakers

Stephanie Michelle Fleming

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom



Disentangling the unpredicted: Investigating neural consequences of prediction errors on episodic memory traces using Cloned Hidden Markov Models

Sophie Siestrup1,2, Robert Schmidt3, Ricarda I. Schubotz1,2

1: University of Münster, Germany; 2: Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, Münster, Germany; 3: Ruhr University Bochum, Germany



Hippocampal prediction errors arise from episodic memories, and not generalised knowledge-based expectations.

Dominika Varga1, Petar Raykov2, Beth Jefferies3, Aya Ben-Yakov4, Itamar Ronen1, Chris Bird1

1: University of Sussex; 2: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge; 3: University of York; 4: Hebrew University of Jerusalem



Initial vs. induced prediction errors: Influences on memory stability

Nina Liedtke1,2, Marius Boeltzig1,2, Ricarda I. Schubotz1,2

1: University of Münster, Germany; 2: Otto Creutzfeldt Center for Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Münster, Münster, Germany



New Evidence for the Similarity between Believed and Nonbelieved Memories from the Fading Affect Bias

Valentine Vanootighem

University of Liège, Belgium



Recreativism without heterogeneity

Jay Richardson1,2

1: Centre for Philosophy of Memory, France; 2: Institut Jean-Nicod, France



How do congenitally and late blind people imagine fictitious events?

Marion Crump1,2, Marie Malinowski1,2, Nadja Abdel Kafi1,2, Julia Taube1,2, Cornelia McCormick1,2

1: Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Germany; 2: DZNE,



Did it happen or not? Memory narratives may hold the answer

Lyse Gathoye, Christophe Lejeune, Valentine Vanootighem

ULiège, Belgium



Autobiographical memory in congenitally and late blind individuals in comparison to sighted controls

Nadja Abdel Kafi1,2, Anja Essmann2, Julia Taube1,2, Marie Malinowski1,2, Sven Lange2, Katharina Wall3, Bettina Wabbels3, Cornelia McCormick1,2

1: Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Cognitive Disorders, University Hospital Bonn; 2: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany; 3: Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany



Mental imagery deficits in aphantasia: effects on autobiographical memory and directive function

Prany Wantzen, Arnaud Witt

LEAD-CNRS UMR5022, Université Bourgogne Europe, Dijon, France



From Spontaneous Thought to Memory: Factors Affecting the Recall of Mind-wandering episodes

Arya Gilles1, Arnaud D'Argembeau1,2, David Stawarczyk1,2

1: University of Liège, Belgium; 2: Fund for Scientific Research FNRS



The impact of context familiarity on spatio-temporal compression in episodic memory

Kevin Nguy, Christel Devue

Department of Psychology, University of Liège, Belgium



The cost of behavioral flexibility in spatial navigation and spatial learning

Behnam Ghazinouri, Sen Cheng

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany



Unifying episodic memory and spatial coding in a memory-augmented neural network

Jon Recalde, Xiangshuai Zeng, Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany



Investigation of the interaction between semantic information and episodic memory traces in primary school children

Carina Zoellner, Henry Soldan, Leonie van Well, Romy Skolik, Lana Giesen, Oliver T. Wolf, Sabine Seehagen

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany



Temporal compression of real-life events in episodic memory: Predicting compression rates from event features

Charline Colson, Arnaud D'Argembeau

University of Liège, Belgium



Temporal neural signatures of facial expression and familiarity processing: A cross-dataset EEG study

Madeline Molly Ely, Géza Gergely Ambrus

Bournemouth University, United Kingdom



Image memorability shapes the temporal structure of memory

Marianna Lamprou Kokolaki, Virginie van Wassenhove

CEA/DRF/Inst. Joliot, NeuroSpin; INSERM, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit; Université ParisSaclay, Gif/Yvette, 91191 France



Neural correlates of the impact of semantic structure on temporal sequence memory

Henry Soldan, Carina Zoellner, Charlotte Pechau, Oliver T. Wolf

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany



Does a shift in mental time translate into a shift in low-frequency oscillations?

Anna M. A. Wagelmans, Virginie van Wassenhove

Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, INSERM, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay



A unified benchmark for human-like memory in artificial agents

Lucas Gruaz, Aude Maier, Johanni Brea

EPFL, Switzerland



Quantifying the learning dynamics of single subjects in a reversal learning task with change point analysis

Nicolas Diekmann1, Metin Uengoer2, Sen Cheng1

1: Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; 2: Department of Psychology, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany



A multidimensional approach to episodicity

Gabriel Corda1,2,3

1: University of Buenos Aires; 2: National Scientific and Technical Research Council; 3: University of Mar del Plata



Memory as an Information Bottleneck

Matheus Diesel Werberich

Washington University in St. Louis, United States of America



Layer-specific fMRI of the human hippocampus in autobiographical memory

Antoine Bouyeure1, Khazar Ahmadi1, Viktor Pfaffenrot2, Renzo Huber3, David Norris2,4, Nikolai Axmacher1

1: Ruhr University Bochum, Germany; 2: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany; 3: National Institutes of Health, USA; 4: Radboud University, the Netherlands



AMBlind: resting-state networks of the blind

Ella Gutenberg1,2, Pitshaporn Leelaarporn1,2, Marie Malinowski1,2, Sven Lange1,2, Julia Taube1,2, Sarah Dumitrescu1,2, Bettina Wabbels3, Katharina Wall3

1: Department for Cognitive Disorders and Geriatric Psychiatry, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany; 2: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany; 3: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bonn Medical Center, Bonn, Germany

6:30pm
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8:30pm
Conference dinner
Location: Rote Bete

The dinner is by registration only. Information will be sent out after the registration deadline for the conference has closed.


 
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