Fourth International School On Mind, Brain And Education
Program 2009, August 1-5
Educational Neurosciences
and Ethics
Directors: Antonio M. Battro and Kurt W. Fischer
Program officer: María Lourdes Majdalani
PROGRAM 2009 - ALL SESSIONS WERE HELD AT SAN DOMENICO
FRIDAY 31 JULY
Registration and lodging
SATURDAY 1 AUGUST
9.00 - 10.00 Conference Antonio Battro: Neuroethics and Neuroeducation
10.00 - 12.00 Panel: Epistemology and Methodology
Moderator: Antonio Battro
Zak Stein: The limits of self-objectification and other ethical issues in Mind, Brain and Education
Tsukasa Funane: Wearable optical topography for measurement of mutually interactive anterior prefrontal activity
15.00 - 17.00 Panel: Modelling
Leslie Smith: What can computational neuroscience bring to the Mind/Brain science and ethics issue?
Kate Tairyan: New models of education in the era of Technology, Neuroscience and Ethics
SUNDAY 2 AUGUST
Free day: Optional visit to historical places: Segesta and Selinunte.
MONDAY 3 AUGUST
9.00 - 10.00 Conference Hideaki Koizumi: Mind-Brain Science & Ethics in education
10.00 - 12.00 Panel: Developmental issues
Moderator: Hideaki Koizumi
Kohji Ishihara: Social and ethical implications of autism research
Maki Koyama: Resting-state fMRI approaches toward understanding of brain networks in clinical population
15.00 - 17.00 Panel: Brain and Ethics
Aoki Ryuta: Studies on human prefrontal cortex and its ethical judgment
Mariko Hasegawa: Evolutionary biology, Neuroscience, and gender issue
TUESDAY 4
9.00 - 11.00:
Kurt Fischer and Christina Hinton: Ethics in Mind, Biology, and Education: The MBE journal and the Learn Internet hub
11.00 - 12.00 Panel: Neuroethics
Moderator: Kurt Fischer
Suparna Choudhury: Speaking to teens: Public perceptions of the ‘neurological adolescent’
15.00 - 17.00 Panel: Neuroculture
Boba Samuels: MBE and transdisciplinarity: one view from Canada
Giuseppe Longo
WEDNESDAY 5
9.00 - 10.00: Conference Bruno Della Chiesa: OECD: International perspectives
10.00 - 12.00 Panel: Neuroeducation
Moderator: Bruno Della Chiesa
Esther Cho and Kayla Lee: Linking Educational Neuroscience with (Global) Ethics, Morality, Philosophy and Religion?
15.00 - 17.00 Panel: Schooling
Lourdes Majdalani: Current research in moral education in schools: the Argentine case
Rita Varela: Literature and morals
THURSDAY 6
Departure