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First International School On Mind, Brain And Education

2005 July 16-20

Summer Institute on
Mind, Brain and Education

Directors: Antonio M. Battro and Kurt W. Fischer
Program officer: María Lourdes Majdalani

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The broad goal of this first Course is to catalyze research relating biology and cognitive science to education by bringing together young researchers from around the world to learn and think together about mind, brain and education.

The Course offers a wide spectrum of themes from major interdisciplinary trends in education related to the neurocognitive sciences. The focus is on education, with the participants discussing how their research in different disciplines can contribute now or in the future to educational research and practice. The Course opens new ways for students and teachers to understand and apply advances in the neurocognitive sciences to the theory and practice of education. Simultaneously, it raises new themes and questions from educational practice to be addressed in research by neurocognitive scientists.

The aim is to generate a circle of influence and dialogue between the neurocognitive sciences and the sciences of education. The meeting of junior scientists of great potentiality with senior researchers of different disciplines provides a rich and diverse international environment to promote the learning of new tools, concepts and methods and the interchange of practices and ideas. Educational practice needs the scientific basis of biology and cognitive sciences, and those sciences need to be grounded in real-life learning phenomena and questions.

The main fields of interest in this meeting are: genetics, brain imaging, neural networks, dynamical systems, neurobiology, experimental, developmental, clinical and cultural psychology, special education and rehabilitation, formal education (from Kindergarten to college) informal and continuous education, ethics and epistemology.


Participants
MBE Prize 2005: Maki Koyama


ANTONIO M. BATTRO

Academia Nacional de Educación, ARGENTINA
One Laptop Per Child Association. Chief Education Officer.
Building a NeuroLab in a school
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DANIEL P. CARDINALI

Departamento de Fisiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
Chronoeducation: interactions between the circadian system and learning processes
Abstract | Presentation

KURT W. FISCHER

Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
Tools for analyzing cognitive and brain development and learning across domains
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USHA GOSWAMI

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM
Rhythm, rhyme, reading and dyslexia; getting the beat
Abstract

BALÁZS GULYÁS

Department of Neuroscience, Karolinsk Institute, SWEDEN
Receptor fingerprinting of the human brain in various challenge conditions with PET
Abstract

HIDEAKI KOIZUMI

Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd, JAPAN
Present status and future prospects of Brain-Science & Education
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PIERRE LÉNA

Université Paris VII Denis Diderot – Observatoire de Paris, Département de Recherche Spatiale, FRANCE
Curiosity of children and science education across the world
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ROBERT PLOMIN

Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College. London, UNITED KINGDOM
Using DNA in research on mind, brain and education
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MARCELO SÁNCHEZ SORONDO

UChancellor Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Casina Pio IV, VATICAN
Curiosity of children and science education across the world

MANFRED SPITZER

Ärztlicher Direktor, Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie, GERMANY
Dopamine, novelty seeking, reward and learning
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PAUL L. VAN GEERT

Department of Psychology, The Heymans Institute, University of Groningen, NETHERLANDS
Dynamics of mind, brain and education
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FERNANDO VIDAL

Fellow Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, GERMANY
Are we truly our brains? A historical perspective on the cerebral subject
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WEI YU

FDirector of RCLS, Research Center for Learning Science, Southeast University, CHINA
Learning by doing and learning science
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YUKO ANDO

Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Tokyo, JAPAN
Tokyo Twin Cohort Project (ToTCoP)
Longitudinal study of twins in infancy and childhood
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JENNIFER CHIDSEY

The Ross Institute and School, UNITED STATES

MICHAEL CONNEL

Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, UNITED STATES
Rethinking knowledge transfer: insights from an artificial neural network model
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GUOSHENG DING

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Learning, Beijing Normal University, CHINA
The separation of cerebral plasticity and adaptation during lexical learning
Abstract

MICHAEL FRITZ

Transfer Center for Neuroscience and Learning, University of Ulm, GERMANY
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YULIA KOVAS

Behavioral Genetics, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Genetics and neuroscience of mathematical ability and disability in the early school years
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MAKI KOYAMA

University Laboratory of Physiology, University of Oxford, Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, UNITED KINGDOM
Relationships between sensory, cognitive processing skills and literacy development in Japanese
Abstract | Presentation

MAIREAD MacSWEENEY

Behavioral and Brain Sciences Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UNITED KINGDOM
Language processing in the deaf brain
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MARTA OYHANARTE

Subsecretaría para la reforma institucional y fortalecimiento de la democracia, ARGENTINA

JULIANA PARÉ-BLAGOEV

Graduate School of Education, Harvard University, UNITED STATES
The neural correlates of phonemic awareness in normal reading children
Abstract

COURTNEY SALE ROSS

The Ross Institute and School, UNITED STATES

OSAMU SAKURA

Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo, JAPAN
Human education from the evolutionary point of view
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FABIO SEBASTIANO

Laboratory of Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Torino, ITALY
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YEE-JIN SHIN

Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, KOREA
Correcting learning strategies of children with serious problems of socio-emotional development in early childhood
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SANNA STROTH

Transfer Center for Neuroscience and Learning, University of Ulm, GERMANY
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ZSANETT TÁRNOK

Vadaskert Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Clinic, HUNGARY
Frontostriatal pathology in neurodevelopmental disorders
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JENNY THOMSON

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM
Developmental trajectories of auditory perception in dyslexia: an ERP study
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XINLIN ZHOU

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, CHINA
Event-related potentials of single-digit comparison, addition, subtraction and multiplication
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