CEMS 2014

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The 2014 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS), now in its tenth year, was held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA, on May 8th and 9th, 2014.

The symposium is designed to be a forum for the exchange of ideas among colleagues working on theoretical and empirical approaches to the study of context and episodic memory, broadly construed.

Announcements

  • We are pleased to announce that Dr. Gordon Bower will be giving the keynote presentation at CEMS 2014!
  • Please visit the page for CEMS 2013 for information on the previous year's symposium, a group photo, and info on the student presenter award.


Location & Hotel

The symposium was held at the Inn at Penn, a Hilton hotel, which also served as the host hotel for the conference.

Click here to view this location on Google Maps

Hotel

Our Inn at Penn group rate is online. Reservations can be made until April 23 at this link or by calling with the group code "DOP". (The group code is good for the nights of the 7th and 8th.)

Please note that our room block will be released on April 23rd.

More info on the Inn at Penn can be found on their website.

Travel

The University of Pennsylvania is served by Philadelphia International Airport and Amtrak 30th Street Station, and is a short train or taxi ride away from both.

From the Airport

  • Towncar
    • Uber is a on-demand towncar service that you can summon using an app on your iPhone or Android device, or from m.uber.com, or by texting an address and city to UBR-CAB (827-222).
    • Airport flat rate to and from Center City (including Penn campus) is $60 for a towncar (up to 4 people comfortably) or $85 for a luxury SUV (up to 6 people comfortably)
    • Normal rates for a towncar are a $7.00 base fare plus $3.75 per mile, or $0.85 per minute of wait time, with a $15 minimum fare. SUV rates are higher.
    • Link a credit card to your account. No need to pay your driver directly, and tip is included.
    • You must create an account first. Sign up using this CEMS 2013 link and receive a $10 bonus credit towards your first ride.
  • Taxi
    • Taxi fare between Center City Philadelphia (including Penn campus) and the airport is $28.50 each way for one passenger.
    • For trips to Center City from the airport, there is an additional $1 fee per passenger. Most cabs hold up to 3 people.
    • The trip takes between 15-30 minutes depending on traffic.
  • Regional Rail
    • The airport is served by SEPTA's Airport Regional Rail line, which stops at each terminal.
    • In Center City, you may use either the University City or 30th Street stops on the Airport line.
    • Tickets are $7.00 per person each way.
    • The train is scheduled to run every 30 minutes.
    • The trip takes 15-20 minutes depending on terminal, and the weekday schedule may be found here.

From 30th Street Station

Driving/Parking

  • The University of Pennsylvania is close to both I-76 and I-95.
  • The Inn at Penn offers valet parking Charge at $39.00 for overnight parking with in and out privileges and 20.00 for daily event parking (prices subject to change).
  • Self parking is available at a garage at 38th & Sansom, one block from The Inn At Penn. More garages may be found on this map.

Campus/Surrounding Area

More information about the University of Pennsylvania and its environs will be available soon.

Getting Around

  • SEPTA subways, trolleys, and buses run all over Philadelphia.
  • Taxis are plentiful.
    • Fares are a $2.70 flag drop plus $0.23 per 1/10 mi or 38 seconds of wait time.
  • Uber is a on-demand towncar service that you can summon using an app on your iPhone or Android device, or from m.uber.com, or by texting an address and city to UBR-CAB (827-222).
    • Normal rates for a towncar are a $7.00 base fare plus $3.75 per mile, or $0.85 per minute of wait time, with a $15 minimum fare. SUV rates are higher.
    • Link a credit card to your account. No need to pay your driver directly, and tip is included.
    • You must create an account first. Sign up using this CEMS 2013 link and receive a $10 bonus credit towards your first ride.

Registration

Registration is available at this link.

Early registration fees (until and including April 30th)* for CEMS 2014 are:

  • $210 for faculty
  • $180 for postdocs
  • $150 for students

* Starting May 1, late registration fees (above plus 25%) will apply. Registration will be available at the welcome desk of the conference via credit card.

The registration fees will cover meeting room rental, A/V costs, breakfast both days, snacks and refreshments, and a reception on the evening of May 8th.

Students and advisors: We have several student travel awards available, similar to last year. In 2013, the awards took the form of registration fee waivers. If you are interested, please DO NOT use the registration link above; instead, e-mail the committee at context.symposium@gmail.com.

Abstract Submission

The format of CEMS is to have a relatively small number of spoken presentations each followed by a commentary given by a scientist working on related problems. The program committee aims to identify submissions that highlight major new theoretical and/or empirical advances. Papers not selected for these spoken presentations can be given as poster presentations. In previous years, posters have been a major highlight of the meeting and have been very well attended. The Bennet B. Murdock award will be given for the best poster or spoken presentation by a young investigator, as determined by the committee.

Abstract submission for talks is closed; the final schedule can be found below. Please e-mail context.symposium@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Information for Presenters

Featured Talks

25 minute talk, 10 minute commentary, up to 10 minutes of questions.

Please either have slides ready to load onto the presentation computer (a Mac with the latest versions of PowerPoint, Keynote, and Adobe Reader) in the morning before your talk, or bring your own computer, with whatever adapters you will need to output a VGA signal.

We will have the capability to output sound from the computer, but please let us know ahead of time to prepare for that.

Data Blitzes

7 minute presentation, followed by 1 minute for quick questions and changeover. (If you finish early you can take additional questions.)

Posters

We will have easels, foam core boards, and thumbtacks available for poster display. Please limit posters to 40x60" at most.

Schedule

If you are presenting and have schedule conflicts, please let us know by emailing context.symposium@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Thursday Friday
8:45 Breakfast 8:45 Breakfast
9:15 Welcome/intro 9:15 Sam Gershman
9:20 Lynn Lohnas 10:00 David Huber
10:05 Lili Sahakyan 10:45 Break
10:50 Break 11:05 Misha Tsodyks
11:10 Keynote address: Gordon Bower 11:50 Sean Polyn
12:10 Lunch/Photo 12:35 Lunch
13:50 Pernille Hemmer 14:05 Data Blitz session 2
14:35 Uri Hasson 14:55 Posters
15:20 Break 16:25 Business mtg
15:40 Per Sederberg
16:25 Data Blitz session 1
17:28 Reception & Posters


List of featured spoken presentations

First author will be presenting unless otherwise noted.

  • Lynn J. Lohnas Siegel, Sean M. Polyn, Michael J. Kahana (NYU, Vanderbilt, Penn): Expanding the scope of memory search: Modeling intralist and interlist effects in free recall
    • Discussant: Simon Dennis, University of Newcastle, Australia
  • Lili Sahakyan, Branden Abushanab (UNC Greensboro): Accelerating contextual drift through contrasting context retrieval in the list-before-last paradigm
    • Discussant: Amy Criss, Syracuse University
  • Pernille Hemmer, Kimele Persaud (Rutgers): The relative contribution of global versus local context on free recall for natural scenes
    • Discussant: Mariam Aly, Princeton University
  • Uri Hasson, Janice Chen, Christopher J. Honey (Princeton, University of Toronto): Hierarchical active memory: an ecologically and biologically plausible model of neural processing
    • Discussant: Marc Coutanche, University of Pennsylvania
  • Adam E. Hasinski, Brandon M. Turner, Per B. Sederberg (presenting) (Ohio State, Stanford): Total (Free) Recall: A Bayesian framework for trial-level analysis of memory models
    • Discussant: Michael Lee, University of California Irvine
  • Samuel J. Gershman, Noah D. Goodman (MIT, Stanford): Amortized inference in probabilistic reasoning
    • Discussant: Alan Stocker, University of Pennsylvania
  • David E. Huber, Trygve Solstad (UMass Amherst, Norwegian University of Science and Technology): A Memory Model of Grid Cell Responses
    • Discussant: Joshua Jacobs, Drexel University
  • Mikail Katkov, Sandro Romani, Misha Tsodyks (presenting) (NYU, Weizmann Institute): Long-term memory representations limit the capacity of free recall of unrelated words
    • Discussant: Karl Healey, University of Pennsylvania
  • Sean M. Polyn (Vanderbilt): A neuro-cognitive model of retrieval dynamics in free recall
    • Discussant: Janice Chen, Princeton University

Data Blitz Sessions

If you are presenting and have schedule conflicts, please let us know by emailing context.symposium@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Thursday

  • Janice Chen, Yuan Chang Leong, Kenneth A. Norman, Uri Hasson: Reinstatement of neural patterns during narrative free recall
  • Margaret L. Schlichting, Alison R. Preston: Offline reactivation and functional coupling support formation of relational memory networks
  • Jeremy R. Manning, Jamal Williams, Luis Piloto, Justin C. Hulbert, Branden Abushanab, Lili Sahakyan, Kenneth A. Norman: Neural evidence for a contextual change account of list-method directed forgetting
  • Takahiko Masuda, Matthew J. Russell, Yvonne Y. Chen, Koichi Hioki, Jeremy B. Caplan: N400 incongruity effect in an episodic memory task reveals different strategies for handling irrelevant contextual information for Japanese than European Canadians
  • Robert B. Yaffe, Matthew S. D. Kerr, Srikanth Damera, Sridevi V. Sarma, Sara K. Inati, Kareem A. Zaghloul: Reinstatement of distributed spatiotemporal pattern of oscillatory power during associative memory recall
  • Elizabeth Musz, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill: Contextual Variability Predicts Neural Variability of Object Concepts

Friday

  • Michael L. Mack, Alison R. Preston: The role of episodic reinstatement in mnemonic decision making
  • Aaron M. Bornstein, Kenneth A. Norman: Cued context shapes actions: Reward statistics of reinstated associative context can bias choices.
  • Jeremy B. Caplan, Christopher R. Madan, Darren Bedwell: Item-properties may influence item–item associations in serial recall
  • Mariam Aly, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne: Attention stabilizes representations in the human hippocampus
  • Marc N. Coutanche, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill: Fast mapping rapidly integrates information into existing memory networks
  • M. Karl Healey, Michael J. Kahana: A New Approach to Understanding Age–Related Memory Impairments

Poster Presentations

If you are presenting and have schedule conflicts, please let us know by emailing context.symposium@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Thursday

  • Branden Abushanab, Leah Kouchel, Lili Sahakyan: Directed forgetting of word pairs: consequences of testing with varied cue-direction
  • Stephanie C. Y. Chan, Carl Nist-Lund, Yael Niv, Kenneth A. Norman: Temporal context as a posterior distribution over latent states
  • Sarah DuBrow, Lila Davachi: The effects of contextual boundaries on order encoding and retrieval
  • Jeffrey A. Greenberg, John F. Burke, Michael J. Kahana, Kareem A. Zaghloul: Theta and high frequency activity changes during encoding of items and associations reveal common networks underlying episodic memory
  • Adam E. Hasinski, Brandon M. Turner, Per B. Sederberg: Total (Free) Recall: A Bayesian framework for trial-level analysis of memory models
  • Andrew C. Heusser, Youssef Ezzyat, Lila Davachi: Accumulating power and similarity in patterns of oscillatory brain activity predict temporal order memory within and across events.
  • William J. Hopper, David E. Huber: A Recovery Learning Account of the Testing Effect
  • Kylie H. Hower, Ingrid R. Olson: Fronto-Temporal White Matter Connectivity Predicts Reversal Learning Deficits
  • Kenichi Kato, Jeremy B. Caplan: Applying difference-of-Gaussians transformation to the item representation in convolution-based memory model
  • Alexander T. Keinath, J. T. Dudman, Isabel A. Muzzio: Redundant hippocampal spatial coding offsets competition between interference and generalization
  • Gregory J. Koop, Amy H. Criss: The strength-based mirror effect persists under conditions inhospitable to criterion shifts
  • Michael D. Lee, Melinea Abramyan, William R. Shankle: Semantic representation of animals for sub-populations with different levels of memory impairment
  • Joshua D. McCluey, Evan M. Stein, Sean M. Polyn: Oscillatory correlates of primacy effects following perceptual shifts
  • Matthew V. Mollison, Tim Curran: Investigating the Spacing Effect using EEG
  • Robert M. Nosofsky, Gregory E. Cox, Rui Cao, Richard M. Shiffrin: Memory Search with Short and Long ListsViewed from the Perspective of an Exemplar-Familiarity Model
  • Adam F. Osth, Simon Dennis: Sources of interference in recognition memory
  • Kimele Persaud, Pernille Hemmer: The Influence of Knowledge and Expectations for Color on Episodic Memory
  • Shrida S. Sahadevan, Yvonne Y. Chen, Jeremy B. Caplan: The peg list method as a stand-in for positional-coding models of serial lists and associations

Friday

  • Michael Chow, Janice Chen, Christopher Honey, Uri Hasson: Neural correlates of narrative reinstatement using interleaved auditory stories
  • Gregory E. Cox, Richard M. Shiffrin: Insights from a Dynamic Approach to Recognition: Word Frequency, Speed/Accuracy Trade-off, and Decision Mechanisms
  • Melody Dye, Rui Cao, Richard Shiffrin: Investigating the effect of prior linguistic experience on recognition memory for words
  • Matthew J. Gillespie, Dylan M. Nielson, Troy A. Smith, Per B. Sederberg: Uncertainty influences item-level perceptual processing for scenes
  • Victoria E. Jackson-Hanen, Alexa Tompary, Megan T. deBettencourt, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne: Training of visual categories through real-time fMRI neurofeedback
  • James E. Kragel, Sean M. Polyn: Activity within the default mode network predicts the organization of human memory
  • Jackson C. Liang, Amelia M. Wattenberger, Alison R. Preston: Distributed medial temporal lobe representations reflect disambiguation of overlapping events
  • Yang S. Liu, Jeremy B. Caplan: Effects of chunking on memory judgements of relative order
  • Christopher R Madan, Elliot A Ludvig, Marcia L Spetch: Memory biases and risky decision-making
  • Jeremy R. Manning, Rajesh Ranganath, Kenneth A. Norman, David M. Blei: Hierarchical Topographic Factor Analysis: A MATLAB Toolbox for efficiently discovering brain networks in fMRI data
  • Neal W. Morton, Sean M. Polyn: Oscillatory neural correlates of semantic organization in free recall
  • Ashwin G. Ramayya, Manusnan Suriyalaksh, Michael J. Kahana: The similarity space of Japanese Hirangana characters and their effects on reinforcement learning and decision making
  • Anna C. Schapiro, Kenneth A. Norman, Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, Matthew M. Botvinick: Learning of complex event structure in the hippocampus
  • Sean A. Spangler, Amy H. Criss, Sandra Hewett, Jeremy Shefner, Dongilang Wang: Effect of Naproxen on Memory
  • Vishnu Sreekumar, Troy Smith, Dylan Nielson, Simon Dennis, Per Sederberg: The neural representation of space-time in remembered experience
  • Jack H. Wilson, Amy H. Criss: The list strength effect in cued recall
  • Yaara Yeshurun, Janice Chen, Erez Simony, Christopher J. Honey, Uri Hasson: How does the brain represent different ways of understanding the same story?

Past Symposia

For information about previous years' CEMS, please click here.