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NEUROSCIENCE IN EDUCATION WORKSHOP

Hosted by:
UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
Speaker:
None listed
Starts:
July 05, 2008 at 10:30 am
Ends:
July 05, 2008 at 06:00 pm
Location:
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Alexandra House, Basement Seminar Room (B10), 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR United Kingdom
Maps:

Description

PROGRAMME

9:30 Coffee and Registration

10:30 Introduction by Workshop Host – Professor Brian Butterworth, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

10.40 Professor Terezinha Nunes – Educational Studies, University of Oxford
Meaning in mathematics: understanding quantities and numbers

11.10 Professor Margarete Delazer, Clinical Dept of Neurology, Innsbruck Medical University, Austria
Learning simple arithmetic – evidence from rehabilitation and neuroimaging

11:40 Dr Dénes Szücs, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge
Educational neuroscience: studying mental representations in educational context

12:10 Lunch

13:30 Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
Developmental Dyscalculia: is their ATOM split?

14:00 Professor Marco Zorzi, Dept of General Psychology, University of Padua
Neuroscience in Education: Insights from computational modelling

14:30 Professor Diana Laurillard, Institute of Education, University of London
Pedagogies in neuroscience and education

15:00 Tea

15:30 Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
Development of the brain during adolescence and implications for education

16:00 Professor Brian Butterworth, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
Genes, brains and mathematics (education)

16:30 Professor Guinevere Eden (Discussant), Center for the Study of Learning, Georgetown University, USA
General Discussion and Conclusions

17:00 Close

REGISTRATION: To attend the workshop you MUST register — please contact: Rosalyn Lawrence (rosalyn.lawrence [ at ] ucl.ac.uk)

Registration required:
Yes
Free:
Yes

Additional information

REGISTRATION is ESSENTIAL for the WORKSHOP. In order to register, please e-mail Rosalyn Lawrence. The Workshop is FREE OF CHARGE.

For more information

Contact person:
Rosalyn Lawrence, ICN Secretary
Email:

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