The CEN is running a 1-day introductory course on Educational Neuroscience on Saturday 9th May 2015 at the UCL Institute of Education. It will be taught by Prof Michael Thomas (Birkbeck), Prof Denis Mareschal (Birkbeck), Dr Iroise Dumontheil (Birkbeck), Dr Chloë Marshall (UCL IOE) and Prof Andy Tolmie (UCL IOE).
Further information can be found here:
http://store.ioe.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&catid=2&prodid=425
Two members of the CEN, Dr. Emily Farran (UCL IOE) and Dr. Iroise Dumontheil (Birkbeck) have obtained funding for a PhD studentship investigating the role of local and global processing in the learning of maths and science at primary school level. Applications are now invited for this studentship.
The deadline for applications is March 23rd. Interviews will be held on the morning of March 26th. A decision will be taken the following week.
Please contact Dr. Iroise Dumontheil if you have questions (i.dumontheil@bbk.ac.uk) or Click here for more information.
We are pleased to announce that Prof. Franck Ramus (Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Institute of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris) will be presenting some of his recent research on the brain basis of dyslexia on Wednesday 7th January, 4-5:15pm, in Room 802 at the UCL-Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London. All are welcome to join us, and there is no need to book.
The title of Franck’s talk, and the abstract, are as follows:
Neuroanatomy of developmental dyslexia
This talk will review our recent research on the neuroanatomical differences between dyslexic and control children, covering voxel-based morphometry, analyses of cortical thickness and surface, white matter tractography, morphometry of the planum temporale, and analyses of gyrification patterns. I will further discuss consistencies and inconsistencies between our results and previously published research, and future perspectives.
Prof. Daniel Ansari, University of Western Ontario, Canada, will be giving a talk at the Centre for Educational Neuroscience entitled “Building blocks of mathematical competence: Evidence from brain and behaviour”, on Tuesday 7th October.
The talk will be at 4pm in the first floor seminar room of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, 27-28 Woburn Square.
No need to book – All welcome.