2011 IMBES Conference

Date: June 2-4, 2011

 

Location: Catamaran Resort, San Diego, CA

 

Sponsors: Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, UCSD, Kavli Institute for Mind and Brain, UCSD and the Division of Social Sciences, UCSD.

 

Program:

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 2

 

3:00–5:00 pm

 

Optional Short Course (separate registration required)

 

3:30–7:15 pm

 

Registration

 

6:00–6:30 pm

 

Conference Welcome: Marc Schwartz IMBES President

 

6:30-8:00 pm

 

General Session II: (Plenary Presentation & Translational Discussion): 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:

1. 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
2. Results from various cohort studies in the JST “Brain-Science & Education" Program- Hideaki Koizumi: Tokie Anme, Juko Ando, Hiroko Hagiwara
3. 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:

1. 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
2. Classroom Practice and Mind, Brain, and Education: Issues, Efforts, and Questions- David B. Daniel and Matthew Schneps
3. 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:

1. Translational Research at the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center: Time is of the Essence- Terry Jernigan, Paula Tallal, Alex Khalil, Javier Movellan
2. 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
3. Categorization and decision making under uncertainty: empirical studies with children- Laura Martignon: Jan Multmeier, Azzurra Ruggeri
4. 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