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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 - 2:50pm	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
3:15pm - 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
5:00pm - 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 Icardi^1,2, 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 Siestrup^1,2, Robert Schmidt³, Ricarda I. Schubotz^1,2 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 Liedtke^1,2, Marius Boeltzig^1,2, Ricarda I. Schubotz^1,2 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 Richardson^1,2 1: Centre for Philosophy of Memory, France; 2: Institut Jean-Nicod, France How do congenitally and late blind people imagine fictitious events? Marion Crump^1,2, Marie Malinowski^1,2, Nadja Abdel Kafi^1,2, Julia Taube^1,2, Cornelia McCormick^1,2 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 Kafi^1,2, Anja Essmann², Julia Taube^1,2, Marie Malinowski^1,2, Sven Lange², Katharina Wall³, Bettina Wabbels³, Cornelia McCormick^1,2 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'Argembeau^1,2, David Stawarczyk^1,2 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 Corda^1,2,3 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 Norris^2,4, 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 Gutenberg^1,2, Pitshaporn Leelaarporn^1,2, Marie Malinowski^1,2, Sven Lange^1,2, Julia Taube^1,2, Sarah Dumitrescu^1,2, 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

Date: Tuesday, 03/June/2025
9:00am - 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
10:15am - 12:15pm	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 Zaccaro^1,2 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
1:45pm - 3:45pm	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 Arias^1,2,3 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 Ford^1,2, 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 - 5:30pm	Poster Session 2 Location: Saal 2a - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB Are eye movements during sleep linked to memory consolidation? – The first attempt Judith Wenzel^1,2,3, Nicolas Schuck², Marit Petzka^2,3 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 Ayyildiz^1,2, 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 Camacho^1,2,3, Eva Maria Robles Hernandez², Silvia Viana da Silva^1,2 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 Leelaarporn^1,2, Julia Taube^1,2, Yilmaz Sagik², Maren Bilzer^1,2, Cornelia McCormick^1,2 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 Taube^1,2, Pitshaporn Leelaarporn^1,2, Maren Bilzer^1,2,3, Cornelia McCormick^1,2 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 Malinowski^1,2, Nadja Abdel Kafi^1,2, Julia Taube^1,2, Sven Lange^1,2, Katharina Wall³, Bettina Wabbels³, Cornelia McCormick^1,2 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 Lengyel^1,2, 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 Bregulla^1,2, Julian Packheiser^1,2, Christian J. Merz³, Gerald Echterhoff⁴, Dirk Scheele^1,2 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 Fischer^1,2, Julia Taube^1,2, Cornelia McCormick^1,2 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 Bilzer^1,2,3, Theresa Jolie^2,3, Julia Taube^1,3, Nadja Abdelkafi^1,3, Tobias Baumgartner⁴, Christoph Helmstaedter⁴, Cornelia McCormick^1,3 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 - 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