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Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 03/June/2025
9:00am
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10:00am
Keynote: A compositional account of episodic simulation - Johannes Mahr
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 

A compositional account of episodic simulation

Johannes Mahr

York University, Canada

10:00am
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10:15am
Tea/coffee break
10:15am
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12:15pm
Space and events
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 
10:15am - 10:45am

Simulation: Spatial, episodic or something in between

Jonathan Najenson

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany



10:45am - 11:15am

Binding semantic and spatial states to form episodic memories

Sven Krausse1,2, Emre Neftci1,2, Alpha Renner1

1: Forschungszentrum Jülich, PGI 15, Germany; 2: RWTH Aachen University, Faculty for electrical engineering and Information Technology



11:15am - 11:45am

Mnemic Perspective doesn't matter

Emil Eva Rosina, Kristina Liefke

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany



11:45am - 12:15pm

Episodic memory-augmented LLMs: A generative computational framework bridging AI and human memory processes

Zafeirios Fountas1, Martin A Benfeghoul1, Haitham Bou-Ammar1,2, Jun Wang2

1: Huawei Technologies, United Kingdom; 2: University College London

Retrieval processes
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 
10:15am - 10:45am

From sparse cues to complete memories: computational evidence for a biologically plausible model of generative recall

Zied Ben Houidi

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., France



10:45am - 11:15am

The experience of pastness in autobiographical memory retrieval: A two-level approach

Gabriel Zaccaro1,2

1: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; 2: Center for Philosophy of Memory - Université Grenoble Alpes



11:15am - 11:45am

The role of encoding and retrieval processes in the temporal compression of naturalistic events in episodic memory

Arnaud D'Argembeau

University of Liège, Belgium



11:45am - 12:15pm

Remembering without (representational) memory: A neuro-computational study on regaining categoricity and compositionality from minimal traces

Zahra Fayyaz1, Francesca Righetti2, Laurenz Wiskott1, Markus Werning2

1: Institute for Neural Computation (INI), Faculty of Computer Science, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 2: Department of Philosophy II, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

12:15pm
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1:45pm
Lunch break
1:45pm
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3:45pm
The role of semantic information in episodic memory
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 
1:45pm - 2:15pm

Attention rules episodic memory

Zahra Fayyaz, Sen Cheng, Laurenz Wiskott

nstitute for Neural Computation (INI), Faculty of Computer Science, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany



2:15pm - 2:45pm

Semantic Memory is a Patchwork Concept

Nikola Andonovski

Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Université Grenoble Alpes, France



2:45pm - 3:15pm

Mnemic representations of objects: Accounting for the diverse singular content of episodic thought

Kristina Liefke

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany



3:15pm - 3:45pm

Emergence, consolidation, and transfer of structured memory in visual implicit learning

Jozsef Fiser, Dominik Garber

Central European Universty, Austria

Memory accuracy
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 
1:45pm - 2:15pm

Gluing the past back together: episodic memory, implicit attitudes, and the Accuracy Framing Problem

Lucía González Arias1,2,3

1: University of Barcelona, Spain; 2: LOGOS Research Group in Analytic Philosophy; 3: Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy



2:15pm - 2:45pm

Learning to remember, remember to learn

Gergo Orban

HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary



2:45pm - 3:15pm

Priority for truth! How Veracity and Importance Shape Recollection

Daria Ford1,2, Marek Nieznański2

1: University of Mannheim; 2: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw



3:15pm - 3:45pm

Mnemic justification and the sense of reality

Sofia Pedrini

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

4:00pm
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5:30pm
Poster Session 2
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 

Are eye movements during sleep linked to memory consolidation? – The first attempt

Judith Wenzel1,2,3, Nicolas Schuck2, Marit Petzka2,3

1: Institute of Physics, TU Chemnitz, Germany; 2: Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany; 3: Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig, Germany



Effects of repeated retrieval on memory reconstruction for naturalistic images

Mervenur Ayyildiz1,2, Maria Wimber1

1: School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, UK; 2: Department of Brain and Behavioral Sciences, University of Pavia, Italy



Hippocampal beta rhythms in Alzheimer's disease

Ana Lorena Flores Camacho1,2,3, Eva Maria Robles Hernandez2, Silvia Viana da Silva1,2

1: Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin; 2: Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE); 3: International Graduate Program Medical Neurosciences (MedNeuro)



Neuronal network navigation on designed patterned substrates

Anushka Sarkar, Vanshita Ramsinghani, KS Narayan

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), India



The benefit of being very wrong: Large prediction errors promote distinctive encoding

Marius Boeltzig, Nina Liedtke, Ricarda I. Schubotz

University of Münster, Germany



Reimagining Experience: Episodic Memory and the Creativity of Dreams

Ayush Srivastava

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India



The Role of Sleep in the Consolidation and Contextual Generalization of Fear Extinction Memories

Louisa Warzog

University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany



Movies of our minds: Patterns of hippocampal subfields during object, scene, and scenario construction

Pitshaporn Leelaarporn1,2, Julia Taube1,2, Yilmaz Sagik2, Maren Bilzer1,2, Cornelia McCormick1,2

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



From single scenes to extended scenarios: the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the construction of imagery-rich events

Julia Taube1,2, Pitshaporn Leelaarporn1,2, Maren Bilzer1,2,3, Cornelia McCormick1,2

1: University Hospital Bonn, Germany; 2: German Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders, Germany; 3: University Bonn, Germany



Neural Correlates of Scene Construction in the Blind

Marie Malinowski1,2, Nadja Abdel Kafi1,2, Julia Taube1,2, Sven Lange1,2, Katharina Wall3, Bettina Wabbels3, Cornelia McCormick1,2

1: Department of Old Age Psychiatry and Cognitive Disorders, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn; 2: Deutsches Zentrum für neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, Bonn, Deutschland; 3: Abteilung für Augenheilkunde, Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Bonn, Deutschland



Accessibility and availability of actions and spatial displacements in memory for real-world events

Bastien Durocher, Nathan Leroy, William Warnier, Arnaud D'Argembeau

Université de Liège, Belgium



Investigating the relationship between schema-based prediction and memory: preliminary findings from a basketball match prediction task

Dingrong Guo, Yee Lee Shing

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany



Information transmission during collaborative remembering: Majority vote or fine-tuned affair?

Magdalena Abel, Johannes Bartl

University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany



Exploring recognition memory for non-semantic visual stimuli

Lotta Pesonen1, Máté Lengyel1,2, Jozsef Fiser1

1: Central European University; 2: University of Cambridge



Evaluating the alignment of computational memory models with human brain activity

Aude Maier, Lucas Gruaz, Johanni Brea

EPFL, Switzerland



Affective touch and face recognition: effects on memory and meta-cognitive performance

Madeleine Bregulla1,2, Julian Packheiser1,2, Christian J. Merz3, Gerald Echterhoff4, Dirk Scheele1,2

1: Department of Social Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany; 2: Research Center One Health Ruhr of the University Alliance Ruhr, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany; 3: Cognitive Psychology, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany; 4: Department of Psychology, Social Psychology Group, University of Münster, Münster, Germany



Audience attitude effects on communicators' memory: The role of the communicator's own initial judgment

Ullrich Wagner, Gerald Echterhoff

University of Münster, Germany



Modelling the effect of audience tuning on generative episodic memory

Aya Altamimi

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany



A matter of perspective: the focusing illusion in memory processes, future thinking and empathy

Benedikt Schilling1, Roland Neumann2

1: University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany; 2: University of Trier, Germany



Neural dynamics of facial expression processing: implications for memory formation

Géza Gergely Ambrus, Madeline Molly Ely

Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom



Exploring the Neural and Phenomenological Landscapes of Self-Incongruent Autobiographical Memories

Alicja Wicher, Thomas Lukaschewski, Nikolai Axmacher

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany



The effect of dopamine on replay events in a hippocampal spiking network model

Lane von Bassewitz1, Robert Schmidt2

1: Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany; 2: Institute for Neural Computation, Faculty of Computer Science, Ruhr-University Bochum



Selective impairment of episodic autobiographical memory in Alzheimer's Disease

Chantal Reinecke1, Hannah Fischer1,2, Julia Taube1,2, Cornelia McCormick1,2

1: Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Germany; 2: DZNE, Bonn, Germany



The Impact of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy on Autobiographical memory: reduced specificity and altered spatio-temporal processing

Maren Bilzer1,2,3, Theresa Jolie2,3, Julia Taube1,3, Nadja Abdelkafi1,3, Tobias Baumgartner4, Christoph Helmstaedter4, Cornelia McCormick1,3

1: Department of Cognitive Disorders and Geriatric Psychiatry, University Hospital Bonn, Germany; 2: University Bonn; 3: German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, Bonn, Germany; 4: Department of Epileptology, Bonn, Germany



Differences in long-term explicit and implicit memory for tone pattern sequences

Aashritaa Gopalakrishnan, Maria Chait

University College London, United Kingdom



Episodic memories guide behavior

Volker Tresp, Hang Li

LMU Munich, Germany



Modeling the primacy effect: Contextual control and response order in free recall

Sven Wientjes1, Clay Brian Holroyd1, Sean Matthew Polyn2

1: Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; 2: Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA



Memory as origami: Constructing episodic recall beyond storage models

Matthew Watts

University of Miami, United States of America



Iconic Representations and the Function of Episodic Memory

Ivan Cotumaccio

Washington University in St. Louis, USA



Can a simulationist be a causalist about the metasemantics of episodic remembering?

Jakub Rudnicki

Centre for Philosophy of Memory, University of Grenoble, France

5:30pm
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6:30pm
Keynote: Generative models of memory (re)construction, consolidation and planning - Neil Burgess
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 

Generative models of memory (re)construction, consolidation and planning

Neil Burgess

University College London, United Kingdom


 
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