Helen Neville
Experiential, Genetic and Epigenetic Effects on Human Neurocognitive Development
8:15 – 9:30 pm TDLC/UCSD/Kavli-Sponsored Reception and Posters
FRIDAY, JUNE 3
9:00 – 10:00 am
IMBES Member Meeting
10:15-11:45 General Session II: (Plenary Presentation)
Hal Pashler:
Testing and Spacing Effects: Improving the Efficiency of Learning
12:00 – 1:15 pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Poster Session I – authors will be present for discussion (@20 posters per session)
2:45 – 4:15 pm
Choose 1
a) The Right Reading Brain: What have we learned about the role of the right hemisphere in language and reading development?
Tami Katzir and Mary Helen Immordino-Yang: Joanna A. Christodoulou, Rotem Lesham
b) Results from various cohort studies in the JST “Brain-Science & Education" Program
Hideaki Koizumi: Tokie Anme, Juko Ando, Hiroko Hagiwara
c) Hybrid Teacher-Researcher (HTR): A novel model nested within Research Schools to fuse research, practice and policy.
Kurt Fischer: Vanessa Rodriguez, Rebecca Unterman, Allison Ohle, Ben Daley
4:30 – 6:00 pm General Session III: (Plenary Presentation & Translational Discussion)
Elsbeth Stern:
Capable learners: characteristics and needs of the upper 15%
SATURDAY, JUNE 4
9:00 – 10:15 am
General Session IV: (Plenary Presentation)
Bruce McCandliss:
Selective Attention as a Bridge between Education and Neuroscience: How differences in instruction change the brain circuitry involved in learning to read.
10:30 – 12:00 pm
Choose 1
a) Value Added? Explaining Individual Differences, Predicting Growth, Academic Achievement and Response to Intervention with Brain Imaging
Daniel Ansari: Kelley Barnes, Nadine Gaab, Fumiko Hoeft, Vinod Menon
b) Classroom Practice and Mind, Brain, and Education: Issues, Efforts, and Questions
David B. Daniel and Matthew Schneps
c) Playing with Space: Enhancing Spatial Thinking in Early Childhood for Later Academic Success
Kelly R. Fisher: Justin Harris, Shannon Pruden Dick, Katrina Ferrara
12:00– 1:15 pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 pm
Poster Session II – authors will be present for discussion (@20 posters per session)
2:45 – 4:15 pm
Choose 1
a) Translational Research at the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center: Time is of the Essence
Terry Jernigan, Paula Tallal, Alex Khalil, Javier Movellan
b) Success in the Classroom: Symposium on Differentiated Instruction Including Problem Solving Perception, Emotional Intelligence, and Reading Strategies
Burnette Wolf Hamil: Olivia Hamil Penrod, Donna Carol Gainer, Peggy F. Hopper
c) Categorization and decision making under uncertainty: empirical studies with children
Laura Martignon: Jan Multmeier, Azzurra Ruggeri
d) Historical, Cognitive and Neural Dimensions of Mathematical Learning
Paul J. Eslinger: David A. Gamson, Hilary Knipe
4:15 – 5:30 pm
Reception sponsored by Wiley/Blackwell and Closing Remarks
