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Session Overview
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Saal 2a is in the conference center (Veranstaltungszentrum) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). It is directly beneath the Mensa.
Date: Monday, 02/June/2025
1:00pm - 2:50pmOpening Session, Keynote: Episodic memory in animals: The problem of alternatives - Ali Boyle
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Session Chair: Sen Cheng
 

Episodic memory in animals: The problem of alternatives

Alexandria Boyle

London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

 
3:15pm - 4:45pmMemory 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

 
5:00pm - 6:30pmPoster 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

1SISSA, Trieste; 2University 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

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

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



Initial vs. induced prediction errors: Influences on memory stability

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

1University of Münster, Germany; 2Otto 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

1Centre for Philosophy of Memory, France; 2Institut 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

1Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Germany; 2DZNE,



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

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

1University of Liège, Belgium; 2Fund 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

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



A multidimensional approach to episodicity

Gabriel Corda1,2,3

1University of Buenos Aires; 2National Scientific and Technical Research Council; 3University 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

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

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

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

A compositional account of episodic simulation

Johannes Mahr

York University, Canada

 
10:15am - 12:15pmRetrieval 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

1Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; 2Center 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

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

 
1:45pm - 3:45pmMemory 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

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

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



3:15pm - 3:45pm

Mnemic justification and the sense of reality

Sofia Pedrini

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

 
4:00pm - 5:30pmPoster 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

1Institute of Physics, TU Chemnitz, Germany; 2Institute of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany; 3Max 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

1School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of Glasgow, UK; 2Department 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

1Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin; 2Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e.V. (DZNE); 3International 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

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

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

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

1Central European University; 2University 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

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

1University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany; 2University 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

1Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrueck University, Osnabrueck, Germany; 2Institute 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

1Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Germany; 2DZNE, 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

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

1Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; 2Vanderbilt 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 - 6:30pmKeynote: 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

 
Date: Wednesday, 04/June/2025
10:10am - 11:40amRemembering collectively
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 
10:10am - 10:40am

Memory, anxiety, and the collapse of waiting: how media reshapes Collective Mental Time Travel

Nathalia de Ávila

Universität zu Köln, Germany



10:40am - 11:10am

The schematic scaffolding of past and future episodes: evidence from human brain lesions and natural language processing

Roland G. Benoit

University of Colorado Boulder, United States of America



11:10am - 11:40am

Collective remembering and grieving of place disruptions

Francesca Righetti

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

 
12:10pm - 1:25pmKeynote: How do our memories take shape? - Jeremy Manning
Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
 

How do our memories take shape?

Jeremy Manning

Dartmouth College, United States of America

 

 
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