Program
Thursday 20th May 2010
Open Talk: Education Shapes the Infant Brain + info
Donostia - San Sebastian Aquarium.
19:30 - 20:30
This talk is open to general public with simultaneus spanish audio translation available upon request.
- Location:
- Aquarium
On-line registration for the Open Talk - Michael Posner: "Education Shapes the Infant Brain" has now closed as maximum capacity has been reached. Please contact info@bcbl.eu for more information.
Formal schooling is usually thought to start at 5-6 years of age, but of course learning begins much earlier. Shaping brain networks related to language, arithmetic and self regulation begins in infancy. Experimental studies reveal how brain networks change with early experience and how these changes influence learning during the school years. Bilingual training has important consequences not only for language but also for attention and self regulation. Parenting quality interacts with genetic differences to influence the attention and behavior of the child. These new findings support important roles for parents and society in the success of children.
Michael I. Posner
University of Oregon
Friday 21st May 2010
BCBL Scientific Opening Ceremony Congress
- Location:
- San Sebastián Technology Park
- 08.30-09.00
- Registration & Welcome by Pedro Luis Arias (President of the BCBL) and Manuel Carreiras (Scientific Director BCBL).
- 09.00-10.00
- Anne Cutler (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands).
- "Native listening: How the native language shapes listening to speech"
- 10.00-11.00
- Tim Shallice (University College of London and SISSA, UK).
- "The organization of supervisory processes".
- 11.00-11.30
- Coffee
- 11.30-12.30
- Ron Mangun (Center for Mind and Brain, University of California at Davis, USA).
- "The Mind´s Eye: How the brain creates human experience"
- 12.30-13.30
- William Marslen-Wilson (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK).
- "Language from the inside: Neurocognitive substrates for speech comprehension"
- 13.30-14.30
- Lunch (Pintxos - Tapas)
- 14.30-15.30
- Jay McClelland (Stanford University, USA).
- "Decision Neuroscience: Can the brain approximate rationally?"
- 15.30-16.30
- Michael Posner (University of Oregon, USA).
- "Evolving attentional networks and the development of self regulation"
- 16.30-17.00
- Discussion
- 17.30-18.30
- Guided visits to BCBL Facilities