Bochum hat sich erfolgreich im bundesweiten Wettbewerb für das neue nationale Zentrum für die Spitzenforschung zur Verbesserung der psychischen Gesundheit durchgesetzt.
Psychische Störungen betreffen in Deutschland mehr als ein Drittel aller Menschen im Laufe ihres Lebens. Um sie verstehen, vermeiden oder erfolgreich behandeln zu können, muss der Blick auf Lebensspannen und Lebenswelten gerichtet werden. Mit dieser Überzeugung ist „LIFE TBT“ angetreten: Der Verbund, der von Prof. Dr. Silvia Schneider vom Forschungs- und Behandlungszentrum für psychische Gesundheit der RUB koordiniert wird, ist ein Standort des Deutschen Zentrums für Psychische Gesundheit. Das Zentrum aus insgesamt sechs Standorten ist auf Dauer angelegt und soll mit 30 Millionen Euro jährlich von Bund und Ländern gefördert werden. „Der Bochumer Erfolg ist nicht nur für die Ruhr-Universität mit ihrer langen Tradition in der Psychologie ein enormer Erfolg und ein Ausweis der Exzellenz, sondern auch ein weiterer Meilenstein für die Wissensmetropole Ruhrgebiet“, so Prof. Dr. Axel Schölmerich, Rektor der RUB. Den vollständigen Artikel finden Sie unter: https://news.rub.de/wissenschaft/2021-03-10-psychologie-rub-ist-standort-des-deutschen-zentrums-fuer-psychische-gesundheit
16.02.2021 – 18.02.2021 (online, via conference platform “Whova”)
Organized by: Research unit FOR 2812 “Constructing scenarios of the past: A new framework in episodic memory”
Abstract
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 workshop therefore aims to bring together researchers from all relevant fields to advance the state of the art in the research on generative episodic memory.
Abstract: In previous work, I argued that the distinction between access and phenomenal consciousness plays a normative role in memory. Memories that are episodically recalled in order to act, decide, and plan are not necessarily phenomenally conscious, and they play a truth-conducive or epistemic role. By contrast, memories that have a rich phenomenal profile on the basis of their experienced vividness and salient value in our personal narrative play a moral and aesthetic role. These two roles are not incompatible and interact in various ways, although they are dissociable. In this talk, I explore this distinction in the counterintuitive context of collective memory. I shall argue that this normative difference is more general than its psychological association with consciousness—it is a feature that depends on meaning-making memories versus mere memory reports. The contribution of this approach is that while the phenomenology of memory is subjectively crucial for the saliency of memories, it is insufficient to explain the general distinction between meaningfully narrative and merely episodic memories. More precisely, while phenomenology provides familiarity with our past, the difference between meaning-making and episodic memories is more general than the familiarity provided by phenomenology, and it requires an independent account. Topics in historiography and legal evidence are explored to assess various options, showing the advantages of a unified transactional approach to individual and collective memories.
