Organised by the University of East Anglia

The distinction between semantic and episodic memory was proposed in 1972 by Endel Tulving and is still of central importance in Cognitive Neuroscience today. It is supported by a vast amount of behavioural, functional neuroimaging, and neuropsychological research. However, data obtained in the last 30 years or so also support the idea that the frontiers between perception and knowledge and between semantic and episodic memory are more complex than previously thought, opening the door to new models of categorization and memory. In this 2-day conference, speakers will review recent research on how our brain extracts general and personal knowledge about the world, how it allows us to re-experience personal experiences, and how knowing and remembering change across the lifecourse. Practical issues, challenges for future research and applications will be discussed, with a focus on functional neuroimaging and patient data.

Contributions to a poster session are invited (taking place in person on the first day of the conference): abstract submission deadline is 31^st of May.  

Speakers

• Chris Bird (University of Sussex): Event memory: how “encoding” became a thing again
• Andrea Greve (University of Cambridge): The role of schema, surprise and novelty in episodic memory encoding
• Matthew Grilli (University of Arizona): Declarative memory from the perspective of the mind’s eye and the mind’s mind
• Rik Henson (University of Cambridge): The role of schema, surprise and novelty in episodic memory encoding
• Beth Jefferies (University of York): Contributions of episodic and semantic memory to creativity
• Chris Moulin (University Grenoble Alpes): Exploring the episodic-semantic distinction with metacognitive evaluations of declarative memory
• William Penny (University of East Anglia): Shared Components of Memory
• Charan Ranganath (University of California, Davis)
• Clare Rathbone (Oxford Brookes University): The role of semantic and episodic autobiographical memories in supporting the self
• Michael D. Rugg (University of Texas at Dallas): What puts the auto into autonoetic?
• Charlotte Russell (King's College London): Cognitive and neural bases of our subjective experience in episodic memory
• Signy Sheldon (McGill University): Different Methods for Representing Autobiographical Memories and The Implications for Ageing
• Jon Simons (University of Cambridge): Insights from continuous retrieval measures into the precision of episodic memory 

Registration and call for posters

• In Person
• Online