REMINDER: Dear all, The CEU Department of Cognitive Science cordially invites you to its talk by: Roland Benoit (MPI Leipzig)<http://www.rolandbenoit.net/> Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 - 17:00-18:30 Host: Gergely Csibra/Johnnes Mahr Location: Department of Cognitive Science, CEU, Oktober 6 street 7, room 101. Adaptive memory: Simulating the future and forgetting the past Roland G. Benoit Max Planck Research Group - Adaptive Memory, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences This presentation examines two adaptive facets of episodic memory. In the first part, I will show how we can simulate the future by drawing on knowledge of the past. I will further explore the influence of such episodic simulation on decisions and real-life attitudes. In particular, I will focus on the contribution of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex. In the second part, I will discuss how we can voluntarily forget unwanted memories. I will provide evidence that targeted attempts to suppress the retrieval of unwanted memories can reduce the vividness with which they later can be recalled and eventually cause forgetting. I will show how such a reduction in vividness goes along with an attenuation of associated emotional responses and possibly a deterioration of parahippocampal memory representations. Finally (and time permitting), I will take a bird's eye view on the field of memory suppression by meta-analyzing some of the evidence for voluntary forgetting. By this, I will also ponder the question whether suppression constitutes a beneficial coping mechanism. Together, the two parts thus highlight processes that make memory adaptive, enabling us to imagine the future and to forget the unwanted past. See more at: https://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events/2018-04-11/departmental-colloquium-… We look forward to seeing you there! Cognitive Science Events at CEU: http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu/events Györgyné Finta (Réka) Department Coordinator ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Central European University Department of Cognitive Science H-1051 Budapest Oktober 6 utca 7. tel: (36-1) 887-5138 fax: (36-1) 887-5010 http://www.ceu.edu http://cognitivescience.ceu.edu ______________________________________________ Subscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-subscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu Unsubscribe by sending an empty mail to talks-unsubscribe(a)cogsci.ceu.edu