UCL INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
NEUROSCIENCE IN EDUCATION WORKSHOP
Saturday 5 July, 2008
VENUE: Basement Seminar Room (B10), Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 Queen Square, London
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@ucl.ac.uk)