Brain, Neurosciences, and Education SIG Sessions
AERA Annual Meeting, San Francisco 2006
Special Presidential Session
Education and Neuroscience: Will Collaborations Enhance the Public Good?
Time: Sat, Apr 8 - 4:05pm - 6:05pm
Place: Moscone Center South, Esplanade Ballroom, Section 301
Virginia Berninger, University of Washington
Brian Butterworth, University College London
Carol Dweck, Columbia University
John Geake, Oxford Brookes University
Jennifer Mangels, Columbia University
Roy Pea, Stanford University, Discussant
Invited Paper Sessions
Developmental Neuroscience: Are there Implications for Educational Neuroscience?
Time: Fri, Apr 7 - 4:05pm - 6:05pm
Place: Moscone Center North, Exhibit Level, Rm 110
Michael Atherton, University of Minnesota, Chair
The Development and Neural Bases of Cognitive Flexibility and Executive Function
Adele Diamond, University of British Columbia
The Neural Bases of Quantitative Reasoning: Insights from Typical and Atypical Development
Susan Rivera, UC Davis
Developing Memory: Relations Between Brain and Behavior in Infancy and Early Childhood
Patricia Bauer, Duke University
John Geake, Oxford Brookes University, Discussant
The Neuroscience of Reading: What Brain Processes are Involved in Reading?
Time: Sun, Apr 9 - 10:35am - 12:05pm
Place: Moscone Center West, 2nd Floor, Rm 2002
Read Diket, William Carey College, Chair
The Development of Phonological Awareness: Evidence from fMRI
Russell Poldrack, UCLA
Brain Activation during Sentence Comprehension among Good and Poor Readers: Evidence of Developmental Trends
Ann Meyler, Carnegie Mellon University
Brain Mechanisms of Reading Development
Bruce McCandliss, Sackler Institute/Cornell University
The Neuroscience of Reason and Emotion
Time: Sat, Apr 8 - 8:15am - 10:15am
Place: Moscone Center North, Exhibit Level, Rm 110
Carol Fry Bohlin, California State University – Fresno, Chair
Mixed Signals: How the Same Face Means Different Things Across Development
Nim Tottenham, Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology
The Teen Species: Learning to Integrate Cognition and Emotion
Abigail Baird, Dartmouth College
Research Findings in the Neuroscience of Decision Making
Stephanie Preston, University of Michigan