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，从世俗的细节到奢侈的理论和个人的沉思。这些信息不会像台式电脑那样随机加载到存储单元中。取而代之的是，我们的记忆系统对传入的信息进行组织。研究人员长期以来一直怀疑，同一空间的记忆可能存储在一起，或者以某种方式联系在一起。其他人也对时间提出了同样的建议，我们可能会有一个特殊的时间索引来组织我们所经历的事情。一些人提出，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。记忆是如何发挥作用的呢？它是从一个最初涉及空间导航或跟踪时间流动的系统中产生的吗？空间和时间在构建记忆中的地位是一样的，还是多了一个基本因素？对这些基本科学问题的回答将加强对记忆障碍的理解，并指导干预措施以改善记忆和改善记忆衰退。关于记忆、空间和时间的研讨会将在亚利桑那州图森举行，来自哲学、心理学和神经科学的多学科演讲者以及来自科学和人文科学的当地贡献者将参加。在相关领域工作的选定研究生学者将获得旅行津贴。本次研讨会将启动一项关于卷或期刊特刊的合作，将在会议结束后以开放获取的形式发布。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.