Our aim is to bring together the best specialists in individual and social aspects of memory to provide precise conceptual foundations for the fledgling field of memory studies, including processes of individual cognition, social interaction, cultural transmission and identity formation. We will discuss the applicability of concepts such as accuracy, forgetting, schemata, interference, emotional congruence, implicit memory, across the divide between individual memory processes and cultural transmission and identity. We will also explore how the tools of cognitive science can be used in the study of culture and history.
Our speakers will, from their specific perspective, answer such questions as, What is memory for? How and how much does accuracy matter in the study of memory? What processes are involved in forgetting? To what extent do we know our own memories? Is emotion central to memory processes?
See some speakers' pre-conference statements on these issues...
S p e a k e r s
E. G. Leutze
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Dorthe Berntsen, Aarhus - David Blight, Yale - Pascal Boyer, Washington U in St. Louis
Jennifer Cole, U of Chicago - Larry Jacoby, Washington U in St. Louis
Alan Lambert, Washington U in St. Louis - Jamie Pennebaker, U of Texas Austin
Roddy Roediger, Washington U in St. Louis - Mike Ross, U of Waterloo - David Rubin, Duke
Carlo Severi, EHESS Paris - Dan Schacter, Harvard U - Lori Watt, Washington U in St. Louis -
Jim Wertsch, Washington U in St. Louis
O t h e r
P a r t i c i p a n t s
Roy Lichtenstein
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Cindy Lennox - Melissa Duff - Adam Shriver - Kathleen McDermott - Sean Kang - Karl Szpunar - Tanya Roth - Debra Gusnard - Brian Bergstrom - Bianca Moehlmann - Jennifer Coane - Juan Montanta - Erich Vieth - Sarah Moynan - Andrew Butler - Raymond Sparrowe - Tim Holy - Steve Chang - David Johnson - Gerry Kress - Sarah Robins - Matt Robbins - Jeff Karpicke - Larry Snyder - Matt Sopko - Brian Vandenberg - Cara Dolan - Roschanack Shaery - Antonia Kronlund - Aparna Labroo - Elena Stepanova - Nelkupa V. John - Angela AuBuchon - Andrea Hughes - Benjamin Anderson - Chad Rogers - Yujiro Shimizu
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The meetings will take place at the Westin St. Louis Hotel, 811 Spruce Street, St. Louis, Missouri 63102. Find details and directions on their website or call them at (314) 621-2000.
Arriving at St. Louis Lambert airport, take a cab to The Westin Hotel, downtown. Keep you receipt!
Speakers: please keep all receipts for transportation as well as the boarding passes for your flights - these are now indispensable for refund.
T o r e g i s t e r
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L i n k s
Pascal Boyer's Home Page
Memory and Development Laboratory.
Luce Program in Individual and Collective Memory