SSP Forum: Bruce McCandliss on Emergence of Symbolic Systems

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460), Room 126

Photo of Bruce McCandliss

The
Symbolic Systems Forum
presents

The Emergence of Symbolic Systems: connecting education and cognitive neuroscience via brainwaves collected in elementary schools

Bruce McCandliss
Graduate School of Education

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
4:30-5:20 pm
Margaret Jacks Hall (Bldg. 460), Room 126

BIO:

Bruce McCandliss (https://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/brucemc) currently directs the Educational Neuroscience Initiative at Stanford University, which seeks to forge deeper connections between advances in neuroscience, insights into learner differences, and innovations in educational interventions. This work plays out locally through immersive school partnerships that bring neuroscience labs into schools to collaborate with teachers and learners, as well as within broader collaborative longitudinal brain–imaging studies of thousands of school children. One goal of this work is to bring neuroscience and educational research together to find better ways of understanding variation and innovative support of reading development, mathematics development, the central role of attentional mechanisms in learning, and the critical role education may play in experience dependent brain plasticity.

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