Twelfth International Summer School on Mind, Brain and Education
2017 September 1–7
Neuroscience of poverty
Director of the School: Antonio M. Battro
Director of the Course: Sebastián J. Lipina
Codirectors of the Course: Eric Pakulak, María Soledad Segretin
Management Assistance of the Course: Matías Lopez-Rosenfeld
Program Officer of the School: Lula Majdalani
PROGRAM 2017
Saturday, September 2
PRESENTATION OF THE SCHOOL AND THE COURSE
9.00: Antonio Battro (Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Vatican) Welcome
9.15: Sebastián J. Lipina (Unidad de Neurobiología Aplicada, CEMIC-CONICET, Argentina) Presentation of the Course.
9.40: Soo Siang Lim [National Science Foundation (NSF), USA] NSF Science of Learning, and NSF funding opportunities for research and collaboration
10.05 - 10.15: Break
IMPACTS
Morning session.
10.15: María del Rosario Rueda (Universidad de Granada, Spain) Impact of poverty in the early development of executive attention.
10.45: Joan L. Luby (Washington University, USA) Early childhood adversity, brain development and risk for poor emotional and physical health outcomes.
11.15: Ö Ece, Demir-Lira (University of Chicago, USA) Academic resilience: Relations between early parental input and the behavioral and neurocognitive basis of children´s academic performance.
11.45 - 11.55: Break
11.55 - 12.55: Roundtable 1 (Impacts): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
12.55 - 15.30: Lunch & Nap
Afternoon session.
15.30: Claire Hughes (University of Cambridge, UK) The multi-faceted nature of parental influences on pre-schoolers executive functions and school readiness
16.00: Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Economic disadvantage and child development in communities spanning the urban to rural continuum.
16.30 - 16.40: Break
16.40 - 17.40: Roundtable 2 (Impacts): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
17.40: Adjourn
20.00: WELCOME DINNER
Sunday, September 3
INTERVENTIONS
Morning session.
9.30: Alejandra Carboni (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) Neurodevelopment and poverty in early childhood:
Intervention strategies to promote equality in cognitive and emotional development.
10.00: Sidney Strauss (University of Tel Aviv, Israel) Peer teaching as an intervention for effects of poverty .
10.30: Sidarta Ribeiro (Brain Institute, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil) Steps towards an ecological cultivation of the mind.
11.30 - 12.30: Roundtable 3 (Interventions): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
12.30 - 15.00: Lunch & Nap
Afternoon session.
15.00: Joanna Christodoulou (MIT, USA) Reading disability and socioeconomic status:
Brain-behavior correlates and response to intervention.
15.30: Courtney Stevens (Willamette University, USA) Vulnerability and training of neural systems for selective attention in children from backgrounds of poverty
16.00: Eric Pakulak (University of Oregon, USA) From neuroscience to education: Development, implementation, and assessment of a successful two-generation intervention.
16.30 - 16.40: Break
16.40 - 17.40: Roundtable 4 (Interventions): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
17.40: Adjourn
Monday, September 4
Tour to Segesta and Selinunte
Tuesday, September 5
MECHANISMS
Morning session.
9.00: Rosemarie Perry (New York University, USA) Poverty and the developing brain: Insights from human and animal research
9.30: Rhionnen Meredith (University of Amsterdam) Critical and sensitive periods in the brain: neurotypical development and neurodevelopmental brain disorders.
10.00: Jelena Obradović (Stanford University, USA) (Skype talk) Identifying key mediators of early parenting intervention effects on the cognitive development of poor children
10.30 - 10.40: Break
10.40 - 11.40: Roundtable 5 (Mechanisms): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
11.40 - 15.00: Lunch & Nap
Afternoon session.
15.30: Michael Thomas (University of London, UK) Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying socio-economic status effects on cognitive development.
16.00: Michael I. Posner (University of Oregon, USA) (Skype talk) Mechanisms of brain network and brain state training
16.30 - 16.40: Break
16.40 - 17.40: Roundtable 6 (Mechanisms): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
17.40: Adjourn
Wednesday, September 6
INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUES
9.00: Hideaki Koizumi (Hitachi, Ltd and Engineering Academy of Japan, Japan) Brain-science of poverty
9.30: Derek Lomas (University of California San Diego, USA) Large-scale learning data and the neuroscience of poverty.
10.00: Matías Lopez- Rosenfeld, María S. Segretin, Sebastián Lipina (Unidad de Neurobiología Aplicada, CEMIC-CONICET, Argentina) Computer and developmental science dialogs on scaling experimental interventions.
10.30 - 10.40: Break
10.40 - 11.40: Roundtable 7 (Interdisciplinary issues): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
11.40 - 15.00: Lunch & Nap
POLICY ISSUES
15.00: Martha J. Farah (University of Pennsylvania, USA) (Skype talk) Neuroscience and poverty policy: Is there there there?
15.30: Rafael Pérez-Escamilla (Yale School of Public Health, USA) Advancing early childhood development, from science to scale: Lancet Series findings.
16.00: Helen Penn (Institute of Education, University College, London, UK) Anything to divert attention from poverty.
16.30 - 16.40: Break
16.40 - 17.40: Roundtable 8 (Policy issues): Discussion based on presentations and connections with related broader goals and issues
17.40 - 18.30: Concluding remarks
18.30: Adjourn
20.00: FAREWELL DINNER