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Characterizing memory recall: From reward to retrieval goals

Date: June 7th, 10-12 a.m.,

Location: IDF (Plöck 55), room 10 

Host: Patric Meyer

Invited speakers:

Stefan Köhler: “Curiosity, information seeking, and reward after unsuccessful memory recall”
Signy Sheldon: “Behavioural and brain distinctions in autobiographical memory retrieval”

To learn more about the speakers and the work in their labs, have a look at their websites:

https://kohlermemorylab.org/ 
https://www.sheldonmemorylabatmcgill.com/ 

AMLaP - Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing Asia. The conference will be held at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lan Tao will present a joint work with Johannes Gerwien entitled GRAMMATICAL ENCODING FOR COMMUNICATIVE EFFICIENCY – EVIDENCE FROM THE PRODUCTION OF ORC AND PASSIVE-SRC IN CHINESE. Check out the abstract here

Information in German: https://www.idf.uni-heidelberg.de/studium/cas-kognitionswissenschaft.html

Information in English: https://www.idf.uni-heidelberg.de/studium/cas-cognitive-science.html

Researchers of the Czech Academy of Sciences, HULC lab, and CNSR started collaborating on new project. The focus of this project is on the emotional load of words in different languages (Czech and German). The team employs behavioral and neuroscientific methods. A project description can be found here: https://osf.io/9khme/. The picture shows how the fNIRS is set up.