Jonathan Najenson
@jonathannajenson.bsky.social
Philosophy of neuroscience and memory. Engrams, synapses, mechanisms, and cognitive maps. Minerva postdoc at Bochum.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:57 AM
🚨 Call for Papers!
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
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#philsky
Join us for the PLM Workshop: Traces and Engrams – Philosophical and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Memory
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Reposted by Jonathan Najenson
Some of the scholars mentioned in this article have presented at The International Memory Reading Group that @jonathannajenson.bsky.social and I run: sites.google.com/view/memoryr...
The International Memory Reading Group
The International Memory Reading Group is an all-virtual group that addresses controversies in memory from philosophical, historical, and scientific perspectives.
Our mission is to promote dialogues...
sites.google.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Some of the scholars mentioned in this article have presented at The International Memory Reading Group that @jonathannajenson.bsky.social and I run: sites.google.com/view/memoryr...
IPM 4.5 starting now!
🚨Coming up soon on May 22–23: the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)! Amazing lineup of speakers, with each early-career talk followed by commentary.
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
May 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
IPM 4.5 starting now!
IPM 4.5 starts Thursday!
🚨Coming up soon on May 22–23: the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)! Amazing lineup of speakers, with each early-career talk followed by commentary.
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
May 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
IPM 4.5 starts Thursday!
Don't forget IPM4.5 is coming up next week!
PhOMO's early career researcher conference (IPM 4.5) is coming up next week! Online, May 22–23. Full program and connection details here: www.phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
May 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Don't forget IPM4.5 is coming up next week!
🚨Coming up soon on May 22–23: the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)! Amazing lineup of speakers, with each early-career talk followed by commentary.
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
May 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
🚨Coming up soon on May 22–23: the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)! Amazing lineup of speakers, with each early-career talk followed by commentary.
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
Program and connection details here: phomo.org/events/ipm4-5
Join us online on May 22–23 for the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)
April 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Join us online on May 22–23 for the Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM 4.5)
Reposted by Jonathan Najenson
I regret to information the Bluesky philosophy community that Michael Friedman, noted philosopher of science and ground-breaking historian of Kant, neo-Kantianism, and logical positivism has died. May his memory be a blessing. #philsci
March 26, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I regret to information the Bluesky philosophy community that Michael Friedman, noted philosopher of science and ground-breaking historian of Kant, neo-Kantianism, and logical positivism has died. May his memory be a blessing. #philsci
'Engrams and causal specificity' has now been published in Philosophical Psychology
Engrams and causal specificity
The identification of memory engrams remains a methodological obstacle in neuroscience if they are to play the explanatory role ascribed to them by engram theory. I tackle the problem of specificit...
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March 14, 2025 at 8:05 AM
'Engrams and causal specificity' has now been published in Philosophical Psychology
Deadline extended! Submit to #IPM4.5 by March 15th
🚨 Final call for #IPM4.5! Join us on 22–23 May for a new format: an early-career researcher's talk followed by a commentary from an established researcher. We invite early career researchers to submit abstracts by 1 March.
Submit here:
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Submit here:
👉 forms.gle/J6RdzD3qdvdP...
Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM4.5)
This is the submission form for Philosophy of Memory Early Career Conference (IPM 4.5).
Abstracts must be anonymized and no longer than 500 words.
Contact: IPM4.5 organizing committee (issuesinphilom...
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February 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Deadline extended! Submit to #IPM4.5 by March 15th
🚨 Final call for #IPM4.5! Join us on 22–23 May for a new format: an early-career researcher's talk followed by a commentary from an established researcher. We invite early career researchers to submit abstracts by 1 March.
Submit here:
👉 forms.gle/J6RdzD3qdvdP...
Submit here:
👉 forms.gle/J6RdzD3qdvdP...
Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM4.5)
This is the submission form for Philosophy of Memory Early Career Conference (IPM 4.5).
Abstracts must be anonymized and no longer than 500 words.
Contact: IPM4.5 organizing committee (issuesinphilom...
forms.gle
February 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
🚨 Final call for #IPM4.5! Join us on 22–23 May for a new format: an early-career researcher's talk followed by a commentary from an established researcher. We invite early career researchers to submit abstracts by 1 March.
Submit here:
👉 forms.gle/J6RdzD3qdvdP...
Submit here:
👉 forms.gle/J6RdzD3qdvdP...
Excited to share my first experimental paper! We tackle how practice shapes cognitive control by running a month-long Stroop task. Here’s a 🧵: (1/n)
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Practice makes better? The influence of increased practice on task conflict in the Stroop task - Memory & Cognition
The Stroop task is widely used to study attentional control and cognitive flexibility. However, questions about its sensitivity to training and the impact of task conflict on attentional control remai...
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Excited to share my first experimental paper! We tackle how practice shapes cognitive control by running a month-long Stroop task. Here’s a 🧵: (1/n)
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
doi.org/10.3758/s134...
Reposted by Jonathan Najenson
If your work explores the connections between memory, emotion and forgiveness, and if it does so from a philosophical and/or psychological perspective, please consider submitting a manuscript to this special issue: link.springer.com/collections/... #philosophy #psychology #emotion #forgiveness
Memory, Emotion, and Forgiveness: Exploring the Connections
People wrong each other with remarkable frequency. Yet, they often manage to repair their relationships by forgiving each other. A prominent view in the moral ...
link.springer.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:46 PM
If your work explores the connections between memory, emotion and forgiveness, and if it does so from a philosophical and/or psychological perspective, please consider submitting a manuscript to this special issue: link.springer.com/collections/... #philosophy #psychology #emotion #forgiveness
Reposted by Jonathan Najenson
We will feature this article in the January session of the International Memory Reading Group:
A great feature about our research by @scinews.bsky.social. Had a bit of a philosophical debate with the editors: initially “memory” was in quotation marks, and the first sentence conditionalized it as “metaphorical”. But I stood my ground. There’s no sense in which “brain memory” is more “real”!
Like brain cells, kidney cells can form memories
Scientists found memory’s molecular machinery at work in cells outside the nervous system.
www.sciencenews.org
December 20, 2024 at 11:44 AM
We will feature this article in the January session of the International Memory Reading Group:
The #IPM4.5 call for papers is open! Taking place on 22–23 May, this year's conference introduces a new format. We invite early career researchers to submit abstracts by 1 March. Submit here:
Philosophy of Memory Early Career Online Conference (IPM4.5)
This is the submission form for Philosophy of Memory Early Career Conference (IPM 4.5).
Abstracts must be anonymized and no longer than 500 words.
Contact: IPM4.5 organizing committee (issuesinphilom...
docs.google.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:51 AM
The #IPM4.5 call for papers is open! Taking place on 22–23 May, this year's conference introduces a new format. We invite early career researchers to submit abstracts by 1 March. Submit here:
Reposted by Jonathan Najenson
@jonathannajenson.bsky.social and I will discuss @thehessam.bsky.social's work in the next session of our International Memory Reading Group
Could the brain’s computational abilities extend beyond neural networks to molecular mechanisms?
Listen to Paul Middlebrooks's latest "Brain Inspired" podcast, in which he talks with @thehessam.bsky.social about how universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms: bit.ly/4eQ4Idc
Listen to Paul Middlebrooks's latest "Brain Inspired" podcast, in which he talks with @thehessam.bsky.social about how universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms: bit.ly/4eQ4Idc
Hessameddin Akhlaghpour outlines how RNA may implement universal computation
Could the brain’s computational abilities extend beyond neural networks to molecular mechanisms? Akhlaghpour describes how natural universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms.
www.thetransmitter.org
December 2, 2024 at 4:37 PM
@jonathannajenson.bsky.social and I will discuss @thehessam.bsky.social's work in the next session of our International Memory Reading Group
Reposted by Jonathan Najenson
Could the brain’s computational abilities extend beyond neural networks to molecular mechanisms?
Listen to Paul Middlebrooks's latest "Brain Inspired" podcast, in which he talks with @thehessam.bsky.social about how universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms: bit.ly/4eQ4Idc
Listen to Paul Middlebrooks's latest "Brain Inspired" podcast, in which he talks with @thehessam.bsky.social about how universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms: bit.ly/4eQ4Idc
Hessameddin Akhlaghpour outlines how RNA may implement universal computation
Could the brain’s computational abilities extend beyond neural networks to molecular mechanisms? Akhlaghpour describes how natural universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 26, 2024 at 2:47 PM
Could the brain’s computational abilities extend beyond neural networks to molecular mechanisms?
Listen to Paul Middlebrooks's latest "Brain Inspired" podcast, in which he talks with @thehessam.bsky.social about how universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms: bit.ly/4eQ4Idc
Listen to Paul Middlebrooks's latest "Brain Inspired" podcast, in which he talks with @thehessam.bsky.social about how universal computation may have evolved via RNA mechanisms: bit.ly/4eQ4Idc
Reposted by Jonathan Najenson
The sense(s) of touch provides a boundary through which we can understand ourselves. How is this sense of bounded self retained in memory? Iva Apostolova is at The Memory Palace today, exploring the connections between memory and touch. Check it out!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
A very exciting post from Iva Apostolova (St. Paul University) on the the relationship between touch and memory!
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
open.substack.com/pub/thememor...
Memory and Touch
Iva Apostolova (St. Paul University)
open.substack.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:13 PM
The sense(s) of touch provides a boundary through which we can understand ourselves. How is this sense of bounded self retained in memory? Iva Apostolova is at The Memory Palace today, exploring the connections between memory and touch. Check it out!
#philsky #philscisky
#philsky #philscisky
Reposted by Jonathan Najenson
TL;DR: This is a request for historical pieces where the idea of a memory trace is implicated.
November 25, 2024 at 7:46 PM
TL;DR: This is a request for historical pieces where the idea of a memory trace is implicated.
Reposted by Jonathan Najenson
Our article "Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?" is now properly published and out (open access).
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory? | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory? - Volume 91 Issue 5
www.cambridge.org
November 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Our article "Where memory resides: Is there a rivalry between molecular and synaptic models of memory?" is now properly published and out (open access).