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Workshop on Constructive Memory

Key Talks

· Jay McClelland (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Emergence of Theory-like Knowledge from Experience: A Parallel-Distributed Processing Account

· Alan Baddeley (University of Bristol, UK) – Constructive Processes in Working Memory

· Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA) and Chad Dodson (University of Virginia) – Counteracting False Memories with a Distinctiveness Heuristic

· Morris Moscovitch (University of Toronto, Canada) Remote Memory, Consolidation and Hippocampal-Neocortical Interaction: Evidence from the Laboratory and Clinic.

· Malcolm MacLeon (St. Andrew’s University, UK), Elizabeth Bjork and Robert Bjork (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) – The Role of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting in the Construction and Distortion of Memories

· Jonathan Schooler (University of Pittsburgh, USA) & Sonya Dougal (New York University, USA) – The Impact of Discovery on False and Genuine Recollections

· Michael Anderson (University of Oregon, USA) – Inhibitory Processes and the Regulation of Awareness

· Martin Conway (University of Durham, UK) & Amanda Barnier (University of New South Wales, Australia) – Directed Forgetting of Autobiographical Memory: Repression Reconceived

· Johannes Engelkamp (University of Saarland, Germany) – What is Special about Memory for Actions?

· William Hirst (New School for Social Research, NY, USA) The Construction of a Collective Memory

· Jeroen Raaijmakers (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) – Towards a General Theory of Human Memory

· Boicho Kokinov (New Bulgarian University) – The Mechanisms of Episode Construction and Blending in AMBR: Interaction between Memory and Analogy