The Sir John Monash Lecture (02/2016)
28 April 2016
Venue: Auditorium 2, Monash University Malaysia
Time: 6pm - 8pm
Narrative Thinking, Memory, Amnesia and Fictional Memories
Narrative thinking occurs when the brain is in default mode and not task-focused. It features autobiographical remembering, future thinking, and self-fictionalisation. Four attributes of narrative thinking are coherence, meaningfulness, perspective and emotion. We default to narrative thinking when cognition is not driven by a specific task which is critical in maintaining a dynamic and healthy self.
Prof Conway will discuss how this conceptualisation of narrative thinking can be used to give new insights into memory impairment following brain damage and the generation of fictional or false memories.
Speaker
Professor Martin Anthony Conway
Head, Psychology Department, City University London
Prof Conway is a professor of cognitive psychology and has been studying human memory for more than 30 years. He is known for his pioneering theoretical work on autobiographical memory, as well as neuropsychology of memory. His research includes memory impairment and enhancement, and links between the ability to remember past events and imagine future ones. He was a former professor and Chair of Psychology at the University of Bristol, Durham University and the University of Leeds. He is also a fellow of several learned societies including the British Psychological Society.
He has been active in providing accessible accounts of research on memory to the public through radio and television, and has been involved in a variety of collaborations with artists that focus on memory. Prof Conway has been an advisor in many legal cases and written extensively on memory and the law.
The lecture is open to the university community and general public.
Program
5.30pm: Registration
6.00pm: Lecture
*Registration closes on Friday, 22 April 2016
For enquiries please contact:
Mohamed Ismail Bin Mohamed Tahir
Tel: +603 5514 4970
Email: mohamed.ismail@monash.edu