Janina Hoffmann, Bettina von Helversen, Klaus Oberauer, Thorsten Pachur, and Jörg Rieskamp organized and hosted an SNF-funded workshop this past weekend: “Workshop on Memory Processes in Judgment and Decision Making: Toward an Integrative Perspective.”

The workshop consisted of a series of talks by experts in these fields as well as discussions and small group meetings. The goal was to reach some consensus about current knowledge as well as identify promising future approaches to understanding the relation between memory and decision making. The meeting was productive but also fun and we hope to see more of these in the future!

Here is a description of the event by the organizers: “Decision making and memory are both central and strongly intertwined cognitive functions. The goal of this workshop is to link models and theories of decision making more closely to current findings and formal approaches in memory research. By bringing together researchers who have worked on the interface between the two fields from different perspectives, we hope to gain new insights into how memory and decision making processes can inform each other and be combined within a formal, integrative framework.”

Participants: Sudeep Bhatia, Gordon Brown, Arndt Bröder, Emina Canic, Marta Castela, Chris Donkin, Hannah Fechner, Klaus Fiedler, Laura Fontanesi, Bettina von Helversen, Thomas Hills, Janine Hoffart, Janina Hoffmann, Peter Juslin, Michael Kalish, David Kellen, Patrick Khader, Steve Lewandowsky, Markus Lindskog,Brad Love, Doug Markant, Rui Mata, Ben Newell, Klaus Oberquer, Sebastian Olschewski, Thorsten Pachur, Paula Parpart, Jörg Rieskamp, Lael Schooler, Henrik Singmann, Michael Spektor, Neil Stewart, Sebastian Bobadilla Suarez, Dries Trippas, Dirk Wulff.