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:
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:
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:
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:
4:15 – 5:30 pm
Reception sponsored by Wiley/Blackwell and Closing Remarks