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SUMMARY:The challenges and rewards of pursuing real-word Developmental Sci
 ence - Professor Denis Mareschal\, Birkbeck
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CONTACT:Louise Gray
DESCRIPTION:Historically\, the understanding of the brain-based mechanisms
  of learning in young children has relied on well-controlled lab-based exp
 eriments. This was for good scientific reasons. First\, there was a drive 
 to isolate individual causes of behaviours and therefore to carefully cont
 rol the environments in which children behaved during a study. \n\nMoreove
 r\, the equipment required to assess the neural correlates of behaviours w
 ere cumbersome and difficult to move so children's mobility had to be rest
 ricted. Recent developments in wearable and wifi-enhanced technologies hav
 e now allowed us to literally "untether" children and explore their brain 
 and behaviour as they move around and interact naturally. This has opened 
 new avenues for research\, but has equally revealed important new challeng
 es to the way that we approach developmental sciences. \n\nIn this seminar
 \, I will draw on my lab's recent work on children's sensory cue integrati
 on\, neural synchrony during children's collaborative problem solving and 
  the trials and tribulations of translating basic cognitive neuroscience r
 esearch into real-world effective classroom interventions to highlight som
 e of the challenges that contemporary developmental sciences faces.\n\n*Sp
 eaker bio:* \n\nProfessor Denis Mareschal is Director of the Centre for Br
 ain and  Cognitive Development\, at Birkbeck University of London\, and a 
 founding member of the Centre for Educational  Neuroscience. After complet
 ing a BA in Natural Science at Cambridge\, he moved on to studying learnin
 g -- initially in the form of an MA in Psychology and Artificial Intellige
 nce at McGill in Montreal\, Canada and then through completing a DPhil in 
 Psychology at Oxford.\n\nProfessor Mareschal's research has focussed on id
 entifying the mechanisms of learning and development in infancy and childh
 ood through the combined use of behavioural studies\, computational modell
 ing and neuroimaging. He has received a number of awards for his work\, in
 cluding the Marr Prize from the Cognitive Science Society\, the Young Inve
 stigator Award from the International Congress on Infant Studies and the M
 argaret Donaldson Prize from the BPS Developmental Section.\n\nOver the la
 st 10 years he has led the UnLocke project (Unlocke.org) developing a neur
 oscience-based primary school maths and science education intervention. He
  is committed to taking neuroscience out of the lab and into the real-worl
 d\, in terms of primary research and in terms of translational impact.\n\n
LOCATION:Hybrid: in-person in Cambridge &amp\; online via Teams
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