The Center for Mind & Cognition (CMC) is an interdisciplinary platform at the Ruhr-University Bochum. The objective of the Center for Mind & Cognition is to investigate the enigmatic and at the same time fascinating nature of the mind and its constitutive cognitive processes by tapping the full potential of interdisciplinary collaborations. A better understanding of cognition from multiple perspectives will contribute to the development of an empirically anchored integrative understanding of the architecture of mind and cognition. The special strategy of CMC is to investigate the same normal or pathological behavior from different perspectives including evolutionary, ontogenetic, mechanistic, computational, functional, social and especially philosophical explanations. Read More
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KogWis2025
For more Info, visit the website: https://kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com/
KogWis2025: Flexible Minds: Situated & Comparative Perspectives @ RUB
Save the Date: September 1st – 3rd 2025
Call for Papers & Posters is open until April 25th 2025 (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
The conference KogWis 2025 aims at providing a platform for discussing the most recent developments in Cognitive Science. It will feature contributed papers, symposia, and posters covering all subfields of cognitive science, bringing together a large number of experts from Europe and overseas. Call for Papers & Posters: 01.01.2025 – 25.04.2025 (extended deadline)
For more information see: https://kogwis2025.philosophy-cognition.com/
Online Talk Series: New Forms of Social Interaction with Intelligent Systems
Find more information on the webpage: https://www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/interact
Workshop: Evaluating Artificial Consciousness
For more information please visit our webpage: https://artificialconsciousness.philosophy-cognition.com/
GEM 2025
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! Please register by 30.04.2025. There are no registration fees.
GEM 2025 will be 100% in-person. We look forward to welcoming you in Bochum, Germany. Our call for abstracts is open!
This conference is organized and funded by the DFG-funded research group FOR 2812 “Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory”. On-site childcare can be provided on request. Please request on registration.
Episodic memories are widely regarded as memories of personally experienced events. Early concepts about episodic memory were based on the storage model, according to which experiential content is preserved in memory and later retrieved. However, overwhelming empirical evidence suggests that the content of episodic memory is – at least to a certain degree – constructed in the act of remembering. Even though very few contemporary researchers would oppose this view of episodic memory as a generative process, it has not become the standard paradigm of empirical memory research. This is particularly true for studies of the neural correlates of episodic memory. Further hindering progress are large conceptual differences regarding episodic memory across different fields, such as neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. This interdisciplinary conference therefore aims to bring together researchers from all relevant fields to advance the state of the art in the research on generative episodic memory.
For more info visit the GEM website: here.
All News
| Date | Speaker / Title / Links | Type | Organizer | Venue |
| 2 June, 2025 10:00 am to 4 June, 2025 6:00 pm | GEM 2025 Generative Episodic Memory: Interdisciplinary perspectives form neuroscience, psychology and philosophy |
Conference | FOR2812: Constructing Scenarios of the Past | RUB Veranstaltungszentrum |
| 4 June, 2025 6:00 pm to 4 June, 2025 8:00 pm | Veelasha Moonsamy (RUB) Emotionally-Intelligent Chatbots and Privacy |
Online Lecture | Project Interact! Zoom Link |
Online via Zoom |
| 10 June, 2025 9:00 am to 11 June, 2025 6:00 pm | Workshop: Evaluating Artificial Consciousness |
Hybrid Workshop | Speakers: Patrick Butlin, Joanna Bryson, Leonard Dung, Michele Farisco, François Kammerer, Johannes Kleiner, Lucia Melloni, Winnie Street Register until May 31st: https://eac-2025.sciencesconf.org/ Zoom Link Organizers: Dr. Wanja Wiese, Prof. Dr. Albert Newen |
GA 04/187 |
| 10 June, 2025 12:15 pm to 10 June, 2025 1:45 pm | Aidan Horner (York) TBA |
Online Lecture | Bochum-Grenoble-Taipei Memory Colloquium Zoom Link |
Online via Zoom |
| 12 June, 2025 9:00 am to 12 June, 2025 10:30 am | Xueyao Zheng (Beijing) Title TBA |
Lecture | Neuropsychology Research Colloquium Contact: alina.steinemer@rub.de |
IB 6/127 |