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Program

Sunday, 7
th
Sept
14:00-17:00 Registration & Get together
17:00-18:00 Welcome by the organizers
18:00-19:30 Craig Stark (UC Irvine)
Neuroscience of Memory and the Law
Keynote at Beckmannshof
19:30-22:00 Buffet & Drinks















Monday, 8
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Student Paper Presentations
Peter Boddy (BCBL San Sebastian)
Eleonore Neufeld & Noemi Rook (RUB Bochum)
Marjana Brkic (IBISS Belgrade)
10:00-11:00 Craig Stark (UC Irvine)
Observing Memory
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Student Paper & Research Presentations
Michael Ben Yehuda (UWL London)
Benjamin Stauch (TU Dresden)
Jayalakshmi Viswanathan (CNRS Toulouse)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Albert Newen (RUB Bochum)
Cognitive Penetration in the Perception of Objects
15:00-16:00 Student Research Presentations
Laura Kress (JLU Giessen)
Maksims Ivanovs (Tartu U)
Bojana Coso (Zagreb U)
Matthias Hohmann (IMPRS Tbingen)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Craig Stark (UC Irvine)
Memory and the Aging Hippocampus
17:30-19:00
19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner A (Tapas)



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Tuesday, 9
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Albert Newen (RUB Bochum)
Social perception and the role of person models
10:00-11:00 Axel Mecklinger (Saarland U)
Memory electrified: Event-related potential studies of
recognition memory
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Kim Graham (Cardiff U)
Blurring the boundaries between memory and perception:
neuropsychological and neuroimaging: Part 1
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Kim Graham (Cardiff U)
Blurring the boundaries between memory and perception:
neuropsychological and neuroimaging: Part 2
15:00-16:00 Student Research Presentations
Aurore Malet Karas (RUB Bochum)
Eva Kozkov (CU Prague)
Seda Eroglu (Ege U)
Mostafa Abdelhamid (HU Berlin)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Axel Mecklinger (Saarland U)
Control processes during memory retrieval: Brain systems and
cognitive processes
17:30-18:30 Discussion







Wed, 10
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Student Paper Presentations
Lucia Almazan Sanchez (Oxford U)
Alexander Geddes (UCL London)
Gizem Ceviker(METU Ankara)
10:00-11:00 Karim Nader (McGill U)
Talk 1: tba
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Student Research Presentations
Loraine Grardin-Laverge (Paris U)
Samuel Berry (UWL London)
Anne-Lise Saive (CRNL Lyon)
Shira Baror (BIU Bar Illan)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Karim Nader (McGill U)
Talk 2: tba
15:00-16:00 Student Research Presentations
Christopher McCarroll (MU Sydney)
Daniel Borek (Warsaw U)
Theodora Kalpachidou (Athens U)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Carl Craver (St Louis U)
Memory Traces and Multilevel Mechanisms
17:30-19:00
19:00-20:30 Lynn Nadel (Arizona U)
A Walk Down Memory Lane: A Personal Perspective on the
History of Memory Research
Keynote at Blue Square



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Thursday, 11
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Carl Craver (St Louis U)
Episodic Amnesia and Temporal Consciousness
10:00-11:00 Lynn Nadel (Arizona U)
What is Episodic Memory For?
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Lynn Nadel (Arizona U)
Hippocampus, Memory and Space: A Conundrum
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-18:00 Experimental Sessions
E1 fMRI Investigation (Suchan)
E2 Correlates of Memory Function (Sauvage)
E3 Computational Models (Cheng)
E4 ERP Measurement (Werning)
18.00-19.00
19:00 Conference Dinner B(Taj Mahal)










Friday, 12
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Michael Hasselmo (Boston U)
Acetylcholine and memory function
10:00-11:00 Michael Hasselmo (Boston U)
Grid cells and the neural coding of space and time
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-18:00 Experimental Sessions
E1 fMRI Investigation (Suchan)
E2 Correlates of Memory Function (Sauvage)
E3 Computational Models (Cheng)
E4 ERP Measurement (Werning)










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Saturday, 13
th
Sept
09:00-12:00 Visiting the Neanderthal Museum in
Dusseldorf
12:00-14:00 Walking & Lunch
14:00- Leisure Time in Dusseldorf



Sunday, 14
th
Sept
All day Free Leisure Time











Monday, 15
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Student Paper Presentations
Dejan Makovec (Wien U)
Julian Packheiser & Carina Giesa (RUB Bochum)
Guillermo Carbonell & Adineh Hosseinpanah
Ghasabeh (RUB)
10:00-11:00 Alain Destexhe (CNRS)
Experiments and Models of the mechanisms of the large-scale
synchrony of sleep oscillations in the thalamocortical system:
Part 1
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Student Paper & Research Presentations
Jessica Heinen & Marco Knoll (RUB Bochum)
Esther Holleman (DCN Nijmegen) & Ambra
Marelli (Pavia U)
Franziska Hellmundt (LMU Munich)
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-18:00 Experimental Sessions
E1 fMRI Investigation (Suchan)
E3 Computational Models (Cheng)
E4 ERP Measurement (Werning)






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Tuesday, 16
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Alain Destexhe (CNRS)
Experiments and Models of the mechanisms of the large-scale
synchrony of sleep oscillations in the thalamocortical system:
Part 2
10:00-11:00 Jan Born (Tbingen U)
Sleep's role in memory - Psychological, neurophysiological and
theoretical issues: Part 1
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Jan Born (Tbingen U)
Sleep's role in memory - Psychological, neurophysiological and
theoretical issues: Part 1
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-18:00 Experimental Sessions
E1 fMRI Investigation (Suchan)
E3 Computational Models (Cheng)
E4 ERP Measurement (Werning)
18.00-19.00
19:00 Conference Dinner C (Avli)









Wed, 17
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Student Research Presentations
Matija Korman(FFZG Zagreb)
Marina Trakas (Mu Sydney)
Taavi Laanpere (Tartu U)
Biser Hong (Warwick U)
10:00-11:00 Jozsef Csicsvari (IST Klosterneuburg)
Neural Mechanism of Memory Consolidation
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Jozsef Csicsvari (IST Klosterneuburg)
Role of Oscillations in the Information Coding in the
Hippocampus
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Jennifer Windt (Mainz U)
Memory in Dreams: A Philosophical perspective
15:00-16:00 Jennifer Windt (Mainz U)
(Mis)Remembering dreams? Anti-skepticism about dream
reporting
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:30 Discussion
17:30-19:00
19:00-20:30 Thomas Suddendorf (Queensland U)
The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
Keynote at Blue Square





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Thursday, 18
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Student Paper & Research Presentations
Nina Poth & Simon Gcke (RUB Bochum)
Richard Wundrack (HU Berlin)
Vencislav Popov (NBU Sofia)
10:00-11:00 Alessio Avenanti (U Bologna)
Resonating with others: A magnetic stimulating experience
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Alessio Avenanti (U Bologna)
Understanding emotions before motor resonance
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Markus Werning (RUB Bochum)
Empathy and the Meaning of Emotion Words
15:00-16.0 Student Research Presentations
Lea Salje (UCL London)
Marty Fiati (CBU Cambridge)
Sabrina Coninx (RFWU Bonn)
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Fabrice Teroni (Bern U)
Seeming to remember
17.30-18.30 Fabrice Teroni (Bern U)
The intentional structure of emotions
18.30-19.00
19.00 Conference Dinner D (Yamas)







Friday, 19
th
Sept
9:00-10:00 Sven Bernecker (UC Irvine)
Talk 1: tba
10:00-11:00 Sven Bernecker (UC Irvine)
Talk 2: tba
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Markus Werning (RUB Bochum)
What is episodic memory if it is a natural kind?
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Thomas Suddendorf (Queensland U)
The nature of mental time travel: Part 1
15:00-16.0 Thomas Suddendorf (Queensland U)
The nature of mental time travel: Part 2
16.00-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Discussion
17.30-18.00
19.00 Sven Bernecker (UC Irvine)
Knowledge from Forgetting
Keynote at Blue Square






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