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Session Overview
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Saal 1 is in the conference center (Veranstaltungszentrum) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB). It is directly beneath the Mensa.
Date: Monday, 02/June/2025
9:00am - 12:00pmPhD Symposium
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Session Chair: Marius Boeltzig
3:15pm - 4:45pmImagination and memory
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Session Chair: Julia Taube
 
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

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

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

 
Date: Tuesday, 03/June/2025
10:15am - 12:15pmSpace and events
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Session Chair: Juan F. Álvarez
 
10:15am - 10:45am

Simulation: Spatial, episodic or something in between

Jonathan Najenson

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany



10:45am - 11:15am

Binding semantic, spatial, and temporal information for cognitive mapping and episodic memory

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

1Forschungszentrum Jülich, PGI 15, Germany; 2RWTH 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

1Huawei Technologies, United Kingdom; 2University College London

 
1:45pm - 3:45pmThe role of semantic information in episodic memory
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Session Chair: Robert Schmidt
 
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

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

Kristina Liefke

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany



2:45pm - 3:15pm

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

Jozsef Fiser, Dominik Garber

Central European Universty, Austria



3:15pm - 3:45pm

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

 
Date: Wednesday, 04/June/2025
10:10am - 11:40amMemory malfunctions
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Session Chair: Xenia Kobeleva
 
10:10am - 10:40am

Modeling and manipulating the primacy effect: Evidence for contextual control during free recall

Sven Wientjes1, Clay Brian Holroyd1, Sean Matthew Polyn2

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



10:40am - 11:10am

Varieties of self-to-memory dynamics in autobiographical memory: the case of depression

Francesco Fanti Rovetta

Ruhr University Bochum, Germany



11:10am - 11:40am

Are memory errors malfunctions?

Rebecca Dreier

London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom

 
1:30pm - 5:00pmFireside Chat
Location: Saal 1 - Veranstaltungszentrum, RUB
Session Chair: Aya Altamimi

 
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