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'''CEMS 2026 is scheduled for Spring 2026. Stay tuned for details. THIS WEBSITE IS CURRENTLY INCOKPL'''
 
  
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'''CEMS 2025 has been rescheduled from Spring/Summer 2025 to Late Fall/Winter 2025/2026.  Stay tuned for details.'''
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The 2026 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS) will take place at the Study at University City hotel on May 28-29, 2026.
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The 2024 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS) took place at the Logan Hotel in Philadelphia, on '''May 30 and 31st, 2024'''.  
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==Venue and Hotel Reservations==
 
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The venue for CEMS 2024 was [https://www.theloganhotel.com The Logan Hotel], located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Click [https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Logan+Philadelphia,+Curio+Collection+by+Hilton/@39.9559494,-75.1729043,17.86z/data=!3m1!5s0x89c6c633baf9f4ab:0x76485c466d1ec839!4m9!3m8!1s0x89c6c633a4cc98d9:0x7aa3f68070f85771!5m2!4m1!1i2!8m2!3d39.9569323!4d-75.1702705!16s%2Fg%2F11c3k97g07?entry=ttu here] to view the location on Google Maps.   
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The venue for CEMS 2026 is at [https://www.thestudyatuniversitycity.com/ The Study at University City], located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Click [https://maps.app.goo.gl/jY2TwvaEW4Uqu6c87 here] to view the location on Google Maps.   
  
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==Schedule==
 
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To view the CEMS 2024 program pdf, click on [[Media:CEMS2024_Program.pdf | this link]].
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| '''Aakash Sarkar''' ''(Boston University)'': Neurally inspired Deep networks with Laplace Neural Manifolds can show Temporal Receptive Windows || '''David Andrew Zarrin''' ''(NIH)'': The Effect of Real-time Ripple Oscillation Interference on Human Memory Retrieval
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| '''Aditya Rao''' ''(University of Pennsylvania)'': Synchronous theta networks characterize successful memory retrieval || '''Linda Hoffman''' ''(Temple University)'': Charting the Hippobellum:  Dissection of Cerebellar-Hippocampal Connectivity
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| '''Ami Falk''' ''(University of Virginia)'': Detecting Heterogeneous Cognitive Strategies in Episodic Memory Tasks || '''Lucy Owen''' ''(Brown University)'': High-level cognition is supported by information-rich but compressible brain activity patterns
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| '''Anup Das''' ''(Columbia University)'': Planar, Spiral, and Concentric Traveling Waves Distinguish Cognitive States in Human Memory || '''Luke Pemberton''' ''(Boston University)'': Compressed conjunctive temporal representation of what and when in primary visual cortex
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| '''Austin Greene''' ''(University of Virginia)'': A general and light spatial associative learning task for wide-scale application || '''Mason McClay''' ''(UCLA)'': Using a novel web app to examine dynamic emotional states and their relation to depression and trauma symptoms
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| '''Blake L. Elliott''' ''(Temple University)'': Hippocampal novelty signals dynamically predict goal relevant VTA activation. || '''Maya Geva-Sagiv''' ''(University of California, Davis, California)'': Hippocampal-prefrontal interactions underlying memory processes during goal-search in humans
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| '''Brian Winston''' ''(Johns Hopkins University)'': Effects of Psilocybin at Encoding on Recall of Naturalistic Stimuli || '''Md Rysul Kabir''' ''(Indiana University)'': Making Deep Neural Networks scale-invariant using cognitive models
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| '''Buddhika Bellana''' ''(York University, Glendon Campus)'': A distinctive role of deep processing on the persistence of recent experiences in spontaneous thought. || '''Michelle A. Dollois''' ''(University of Guelph)'': Modelling the underlying mechanisms of sequential dependencies in recognition memory
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| '''Chenyu Wang''' ''(Boston University)'': Time cells for future actions in monkey PFC || '''Nathaniel R. Greene''' ''(University of Pennsylvania)'': New Perspectives on Age-Related Declines in Episodic Memory Specificity
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| '''Chong Zhao''' ''(University of Chicago)'': Attention Control Differences Predict Both Source and Recognition Memory Performance || '''Neal W Morton''' ''(University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee)'': Memory search dynamics reflect retrieval of semantic context
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| '''Devyn Smith''' ''(University of Virginia)'': Multivariate decoding of memory retrieval feedback signals || '''Rebecca Waugh''' ''(University of Virginia)'': Whole brain connectomics in episodic memory:  neural correlates of the Continuous Associative Binding task
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| '''Elita Lee''' ''(Princeton University)'': Learning with caricatures facilitates discrimination of similar stimuli || '''Riley DeHaan''' ''(University of Pennsylvania)'': Predicting the Effects of Brain Stimulation from Observational Data
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| '''Geoffrey Ward''' ''(University of Essex)'': Effects of repetition, rehearsal, and a filled delay on free and serial recall. || '''Ryan A. Colyer, Jerome D. Hoover, and Alice F. Healy''' ''(University of Pennsylvania, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and University of Colorado Boulder)'': Large Language Model Simulation of Human Responses to Bat-and-Ball Problems
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| '''James Mochizuki-Freeman''' ''(Indiana University Bloomington)'': Incorporating a cognitive model for evidence accumulation into deep reinforcement learning agents || '''Sean Polyn''' ''(Vanderbilt University)'': An instance-based retrieved-context theory of memory search in free recall
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| '''Jennifer Fiedler''' ''(UNC Chapel Hill)'': Repeating Contexts Enhances Episodic Memory Updating by Promoting Remindings and Integrative Encoding. || '''Soroush Mirjalili''' ''(University of Texas at Austin)'': More than sum of its parts:  investigating episodic memory as a multidimensional cognitive process
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| '''Jie Sun''' ''(The University of Melbourne)'': The Late Positive Event-Related Potential Component is Time-Locked to the Decision in Recognition Memory Tasks || '''Tankut Can''' ''(Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University)'': Large-Scale Study of Human Memory for Narratives using Large Language Models
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| '''Jordan Gunn''' ''(Vanderbilt University)'': Some Problems for the Retrieved Context Account of Repetition and Spacing Effects || '''Taylor Chamberlain''' ''(Columbia University)'': Conjunctive encoding representations in expert and novice users of the ''Method of Loci'' mnemonic technique
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== Past Symposia ==
 
== Past Symposia ==

Latest revision as of 23:29, 13 January 2026


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CEMS 2019

The 2026 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS) will take place at the Study at University City hotel on May 28-29, 2026.

Venue and Hotel Reservations

Register for the hotel here.

The venue for CEMS 2026 is at The Study at University City, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Click here to view the location on Google Maps.

The exclusive rate for our attendees is $289 per night (Tax not included in listed price).

Please make sure to book by May 10.

Abstract Submission

We are accepting abstract submissions. The deadline is January 20, 2026.

Click here to submit

Registration

Click here to register

Early registration deadline: April 15

Early registration prices:

  • $340 for non-faculty
  • $415 for faculty

Late registration deadline: May 10

Late registration prices:

  • $440 for non-faculty
  • $515 for faculty

Conference registration included breakfast, lunch, and refreshments on all conference days.

Cancellations before May 10 will be refunded, subject to a 10% cancellation fee. We apologize that we will not be able to provide refunds after May 10.

Past Symposia

For information about past CEMS events, please click here.



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