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PROF. SARAH ROBINS
I am a Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, and an affiliate of the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience.
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My research is focused primarily on memory, through which I discuss a range of issues in philosophy of mind, psychology, and neuroscience. I am particularly interested in the concept of the memory trace, or engram, and the role it plays in both everyday and scientific thinking about remembering.
I am writing an writing an academic monograph Memory's Trace on the role of memory traces in theories of remembering. I am the recipient of an NSF Mid-Career Award (2024-2027) through which I'm working on a project to build a conceptual ecology of the engram.
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"Traces and Engrams, Contents and Vehicles"
Symposium on Memory Representations
Memory Disorders Research Society
Montréal, CA
October 15-18, 2025
UPCOMING EVENTS
Debate Moderator:
Memory stability and representational drift- opposing or complementary processes?
Molecular & Cellular Cognition Society
2025 Meeting
San Diego, CA
November 13, 2025
"Deciding & Remembering"
(w/ Dan Burnston, Tulane)
Deep South Philosophy & Neuroscience at the Gulf
Pensacola Beach
September 26, 2025
RECENT RESEARCH
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