Mind, Brain, and Education Speaker Series

The Southwest Center for Mind-Brain and Education at the University of Texas at Arlington invites you to listen and dialog with experts in the fields of cognitive and behavioral science as well as neuroscience as they explore new tools, models and ideas emerging at the intersection of education and the cognitive and neurosciences.  These speakers use the overarching principles of this new discipline, MBE, to explore how advances in their fields of neuroscience, genetics, or cognitive science can inform, and be informed by, educational practice and leadership.

Our Distinguished Speakers

Dr. Donna Coch – Dartmouth College Faculty Presentation
The complexity of reading: A mind, brain, and education perspective

What is involved in the amazing development of the ability to make meaning of marks on a page? Learning to read involves the development of multiple skills and neurocognitive systems as well as the coordination of these skills and systems. Three key components of reading are discussed- orthographic, phonological, and semantic knowledge - from the multiple perspectives of mind, brain, and education to illustrate the rich complexity of the process of building a brain that reads.

Dr. Mary Helen Immordino-Yang USC Faculty Presentation: The neuroscience of emotion

Dr. Jenny Thomson - Harvard University Faculty Presentation: Getting the beat: Links between rhythm sensitivity and dyslexia

Dr. Theo Dawson - Developmental Testing Services (DTS)
Educational assessment: A hierarchical view of success

E. Juliana Paré-Blagoev - The SERP Institute
Mind the Gap: A Model for Progress in Neuro-Education Research

Todd Rose - Harvard University
Illusions, Art, and Attention: Dynamic Perception and its Implications for Learning

Michael Connell - Harvard University
Building Bridges in Mind, Brain, and Education: Translating Learning Science into Useable Tools for Educators