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SUMMARY:[NEW DATE:11th of December]  Old wine in new skins: a fresh look a
 t cognitive control development - Dr Nikolaus Steinbeis\, Department of Cl
 inical\, Educational and Health Psychology\, University College London 
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Cognitive control refers to flexible and goal-direct
 ed action and it is a hallmark of human cognition. Its development has bee
 n predominantly described in terms of quantitative changes. An emerging pe
 rspective argues however that children deploy control in qualitatively dif
 ferent ways compared to adults. In this talk I will explore these qualitat
 ive differences by focussing on variability\, metacognition and plasticity
 . I will leverage different methodologies (i.e. neuroimaging and computati
 onal modelling) to understand mechanisms of change and discuss how we can 
 capitalise this to devise interventions at critical points of impact.\nBio
 : Niko obtained his PhD in 2008 on the neuroscience of music\, fittingly f
 rom the University of Leipzig. He then switched research fields to do a po
 stdoc in developmental social neuroscience at the University of Zuerich. A
 fter becoming senior researcher and then group leader at the Max-Planck In
 stitute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences\, Leipzig\, Niko embarked o
 n research fellowships at Weill Cornell Medical School and the Douglas Men
 tal Health University Institute. In 2015 he joined the Department of Devel
 opmental Psychology of Leiden University as an Assistant Professor and in 
 2017 became an Associate Professor at UCL’s Division of Psychology and L
 anguage Sciences. Niko holds several grants\, including a Jacobs Fellowshi
 p\, a Starting Grant from the European Research Council and most recently 
 an ESRC-ORA grant. He has a broad interest in cognitive\, social and affec
 tive development and he adopts a multimethod approach to address the opera
 tion of sensitive periods in childhood.\n\n
LOCATION:Zoom meeting
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