Chair
Layne Kalbfleisch, M.Ed., Ph.D.
George Mason University
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Layne Kalbfleisch is an associate professor in the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study and the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. Her transdisciplinary laboratory, KIDLAB, combines methods from educational psychology and cognitive neuroscience to pioneer methods for better representing real world cognition in the artificial functional MRI (fMRI) environment, and to study the neural anatomies of talent characterized by twice exceptionality (high-ability individuals with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and high-functioning autism). She is a contributor to the OECD-CERI publication Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science (2007) and published in journals across the fields of gifted education, educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuroethics. She is guest editor of the journals Roeper Review, and Developmental Neuropsychology, and a founding associate editor of Frontiers in Educational Psychology. She lectures internationally about her work on constructivist learning, special populations, and improving scientific literacy in teaching professionals and the public at large.
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Secretary/Treasurer
Debby Zambo, Ph.D.
Arizona State University |
Debby Zambo is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the College of Teacher Education and Leadership. Debby’s Ph. D. is in educational psychology and her research interests focus on teachers’ interests, views, and uses of neuroscience, imagery and texts, and literacy and gender. |
Student Representative
Brian R. Barber, Ph.D.
University of Florida |
Brian R. Barber is a doctoral student of special education at the University of Florida. Previous experiences as an educator of youth with primary emotional disturbance have led to his research emphasis on the contextual and cognitive factors predicting such conditions. Current studies focus on the contribution of executive functioning to social and behavioral problems of youth, and the interaction of these neurocognitive processes with school-based treatment. |
Conference Chair
Sen Campbell, Ph.D.
Simon Fraser University |
Dr. Campbell’s scholarly focus is on the historical and psychological development of mathematical thinking from an embodied perspective informed by Kant, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty. His research incorporates methods of psychophysics and cognitive neuroscience as a means for operationalising affective and cognitive models of math anxiety and concept formation. |
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| SIG Advisory Board Members
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Stephanie Peabody, Ph.D. |
Soon to come... |
Sashank Varma, Ph.D. |
Sashank Varma is an assistant professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. He earned his B.S. at Carnegie Mellon, his Ph.D at Vanderbilt , and completed a post-doc at Stanford. He studies language comprehension, mathematical reasoning, and spatial problem solving using empirical and computational approaches. He has written extensively on the implications of neuroscience studies of these domains for education. |
George W. Hynd, Ph.D. |
George W. Hynd is Provost at Charleston College, SC. Prior to his current positon he was the Dean of the College of Education at Purdue, and Senior Vice Provost, Dean & Director of the Mary Lou Fulton Institute & Graduate School of Education at Arizona State University. Dr. Hynd has been the recipient of numerous awards in the fields of neuropsychology and school psychology. Dr. Hynd’s research has been devoted to gaining a better understanding of the neurobiological basis of childhood learning and behavior problems. Among his many contributions, Dr. Hynd’s pioneering brain imaging research was the first to show that subtle alterations exist deep in the motor control regions of the brain in children who have Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and that the magnitude of these deviations predict the degree of impulsivity and hyperactivity. |
Marc Schwartz, Ph.D. |
Marc Schwartz is Professor of Mind, Brain and Education at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). At UTA he is currently working on developing the new Southwest Center for Mind, Brain and Education to identify and support promising research agendas at the intersection of mind, brain and education. Professor Schwartz is a charter member of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES), and currently serves as its president elect. |
Kurt Fischer, Ph.D. |
Kurt Fischer leads an international movement to connect biology and cognitive science to education, and is founding editor of the journal Mind, Brain, and Education (Blackwell), which received the award for Best New Journal by the Association of American Publishers. As Director of the Mind, Brain, and Education Program and Charles Bigelow Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he does research on cognition, emotion, and learning and their relation to biological development and educational assessment. He has discovered a general scale that provides assessments of learning and development in any domain. His most recent books include The Educated Brain and Mind, Brain, and Education in Reading Disorders (Cambridge University Press, 2008 and 2007, respectively). |
Victoria J Molfese, Ph. D. |
Victoria J. Molfese is the Ashland/Nystrand Chair and Professor at the University of Louisville. Her Ph.D. is in Developmental Psychology from Pennsylvania State University. She publishes research on cognitive development in infants and children. Current research focuses on the relation between early reading and mathematics skills and is seeking to understand brain processing and child characteristics influence early learning strategies. |
Dennis L. Molfese, Ph.D. |
Dennis L. Molfese, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized expert on the use of brain recording techniques to study the emerging relationships between brain development, language and cognitive processes that extend from the prenatal period into adulthood. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the Pennsylvania State University in 1972. He is a Distinguished University Scholar, Professor and Director of the Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Louisville. A Fellow of both the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, he is the Editor-in-Chief for the scientific journal, Developmental Neuropsychology. |
David B. Daniel, Ph.D. |
David B. Daniel, Ph.D. is at James Madison University in the Psychology Department. He works in the area of Life-Span Developmental Psychology and is involved with forging reciprocal links between cognitive-developmental psychology and teaching practices/pedagogy. He is currently chair of the Society for Research in Child Development's Teaching Committee and coordinator of their Teaching Institute. In addition, David is also a founding board member of the International Mind, Brain and Education Society as well as the managing editor of the journal Mind, Brain, and Education. |
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Jeff Gilger, Ph.D.
SIG Chair 2010 & 2011
University of California, Merced
David Wodrich, Ph.D.
SIG President 2008 & 2009
University of Arizona
Michael Atherton, Ph.D.
SIG President 2005, 2006, & 2007
University of Minnesota
Martha Wilson Alcock, Ph.D.
SIG President 1993, 1994, & 1995
Capital University
Carol Fry Bohlin, Ph.D.
SIG President 1998 & 1999
California State University, Fresno
Read Diket, Ph.D.
SIG President 2003 & 2004
William Carey College
Bruce R. Dunn, Ph.D.
SIG President 1988, 1989, & 1990
University of West Florida
Denise A. Dunn, Ph.D.
SIG President 1996 & 1997
University of West Florida
George Hruby, Ph.D.
SIG President 2000, 2001, & 2002
Utah State University
Marlin L. Languis, Ph.D.
SIG President 1991 & 1992
Ohio State University, Emeritus
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