Forgetting: A Forgotten Issue?
An Experimental Psychology Society Workshop.
The talks for the day will be presented by some of the international leaders in the study of human forgetting, covering healthy young adults, cognitive ageing, the impact of focal and degenerative brain damage, and the interaction between human and digital memory.
11.00 Sergio Della Sala (Edinburgh, UK): ‘Introduction: Why studying Forgetting?’/Chair
11.20 Alan Baddeley (York, UK): ‘A brief history of Forgetting: what we know and what we don’t’
11.40 Rosaleen McCarthy (Southampton, UK): ‘Forgetting the past in (relatively) Focal Retrograde Amnesia’
12.00 Mike Kopelman (London, UK): ‘Forgetting and its measurement: Do patient groups differ?’
12.20 Adam Zeman (Exeter, UK): ‘Three varieties of Forgetting in Transient Epileptic Amnesia’
12.40 Lunch break
Chair Alan Baddeley
13.40 Robert H. Logie (Edinburgh, UK): ‘Digital forgetting’
14.00 Oliver Hardt (Montreal, CA): ‘Why forgetting? Possible functional contributions of forgetting to memory’
14.20 Mike Anderson (Cambridge, UK): ‘Active forgetting’
14.40 Gordon Brown (Warwick, UK) ‘Forgetting over different timescales’
15.00 Michaela Dewar (Edinburgh, UK): ‘Forgetting due to interference during consolidation’
15.20 Coffee break
Chair Robert Logie
15.50 Dorthe Bernsten (Aarhus, Denmark): ‘Cue-dependent forgetting (and remembering) in naturalistic settings’
16.10 Roberto Cubelli (Rovereto, Italy) ‘Forgetting as evidence of either normal memory functioning or impaired memory system’
16.30 Talya Sadeh (Beersheba, Israel): ‘The Representation Theory of Forgetting: Both Decay and Interference matter’
16.50 Morris Moscovitch (Toronto, CA): ‘Schemas, gist and details: Hippocampal-neocortical interactions and forgetting’
17.10 Vote of thanks and General Discussion
17.30 Wine and snacks reception.
The event is addressed to academics but it open to the general public.
It will be ticketed but free; please book online
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