Memory, Space, and Time Workshop

记忆造就了我们。它们是我们日常生活中各种信息的储存库，从平凡的细节到奢侈的理论和个人沉思。这些信息不会像台式计算机那样随机加载到存储单元中。相反，我们的记忆系统构建了传入的信息。长期以来，研究人员一直怀疑同一空间的记忆可能存储在一起或以某种方式联系在一起。其他人对时间也提出了同样的建议，我们可能有一个特殊的时间索引来组织我们所经历的事情。有些人提出，我们的记忆系统包括专门用于编码空间和/或时间信息的特殊脑细胞或细胞网络。 关于脊椎动物和其他动物的记忆是如何进化的，也可以提出类似的问题。记忆是如何以这种方式工作的？它是否起源于最初涉及空间导航或跟踪时间流的系统？空间和时间在记忆结构中的地位是一样的，还是更基本的？这些基本科学问题的答案将提高对记忆障碍的理解，并指导干预措施，以改善记忆和改善记忆衰退。记忆，空间和时间研讨会将在亚利桑那州图森市举行，来自哲学，心理学和神经科学的多学科演讲者，以及当地科学和人文学科的贡献者。在相关领域工作的研究生学者将获得旅费津贴。本次研讨会将启动一个合作的卷或期刊特刊，将在会议结束后以开放获取的形式发布。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

Memories make us who we are. They serve as repositories of all kinds of information from our daily lives, from mundane details to extravagant theories and personal musings. This information isn’t randomly loaded into a storage unit as happens in a desktop computer. Instead, our memory system structures the incoming information. Researchers have long suspected that memories of the same space might be stored together or linked in some way. Others have suggested the same thing for time, that we might have a special temporal index that organizes what we’ve experienced. Some have proposed that our memory systems include special brain cells, or networks of cells, dedicated to encoding spatial and/or temporal information. Similar questions can be asked concerning how memory evolved in vertebrates and other animals. How did memory come to work the way it does? Did it emerge from a system initially involved in navigating space or tracking the flow of time? Do space and time have the same status in structuring memory or is one more fundamental? Answers to these basic scientific issues will enhance understanding of memory disorders and guide interventions to improve memory and ameliorate memory decline.The workshop on Memory, Space, and Time will take place in Tucson, Arizona, with a multi-disciplinary group of speakers from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, as well as local contributors from the sciences and humanities. Selected graduate student scholars working in related areas will receive travel stipends. This workshop will initiate a collaboration on a volume or journal special issue, to be released in open access form following the conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.