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Program

March, Monday 09th

18:30 – 19:00

Opening words

David Preiss
19:00 – 20:00

The Fifth LA School: Where Are We?

John T. Bruer

March, Tuesday 10th

08:30 – 09:30

When Biology trumps Psychology: Nutrition, exercise and sleep as educational bottlenecks

Sidarta Ribeiro
09:30 – 10:30

From basic research on scientific reasoning to educational engineering for middle school science

David Klahr
11:00 – 12:00

Learning Mathematical Formalisms

Mitchel Nathan
12:00 – 13:00

Understanding Change in Mathematical Thinking: An Embodied Perspective

Martha W. Alibali

18:00 – 19:00

Becoming a Native Listener: Biological Constraints on Experiential Influences

Janet Werker
19:00 – 20:00

Choosing a career path: why i chose to do research in a developing country

Ricardo Uauy

March, Wednesday 11th

08:30 – 09:30

Reasoning and the developing brain

Silvia Bunge
09:30 – 10:30

Probabilistic reasoning in infants and young children

Fei Xu
11:00 – 12:00

The influence of classroom and culture: Personalized learning in Latin America

Amy ogan
12:00 – 13:00

Early identification and prevention of difficulties associated with the acquisition of reading skills

Heikki Lyytinen

15:30 – 16:00

Demo: Games

Silvia Bunge
18:00 – 19:00

The contribution of sleep to memory formation

Jan Born
19:00 – 20:00

Investigating the infant mind, some pieces of our experience.

Marina Nespor & Jacques Mehler

March, Thursday 12th

08:30 – 09:30

How high quality language environments create high quality learning environments.

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
09:30 – 10:30

The square goes here: Links between spatial and mathematical skill in preschoolers.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
11:00 – 12:00

Learning and development in the whole child in context

Karen Adolph
12:00 – 13:00

The role of surprise on learning.

Lisa Feigenson
18:00 – 19:00

Do infants learn from machines?: An example from language.

Marcela Peña
19:00 – 20:00

[To be confirmed]

Takao Hensch

March, Friday 13st

8:30 – 9:30

Foundations for symbolic mathematics: development and evolution of the approximate number system

Elizabeth Brannon
9:30 – 10:30

The power of comparison in learning and instruction: Experimental evidence from mathematics classrooms.

Bethany Rittle-Johnson
11:00 – 12:00

Using dots for improve math: Lessons from 2 different studies at school

Alejandro Maiche
12:00 – 13:00

How to grow confidence for your Number Sense

Justin Halberda
15:30 – 16:00

Demo: Play & learning

Kathy Hirsk-Pasek & Roberta Golinkoff
19:00 – 20:00

JC: Women in sciences

Susan Fitzpatrick & Tom Wyman

March, Monday 16th

08:30 – 09:30

Dysfunctional communicative environment in infancy and it’s developmental consequences..

Orsolya Koos
09:30 – 10:30

When Research Informs Public Education Policy and Practice: the Role of Foundations in Early Education.

Ellen Frede
11:00 – 12:00

Cerebral constraints on learning

Ghislaine Dehaene
12:00 – 13:00

Is the ANS foundational for the human capacity for explicit number representations and for arithmetic?

Susan Carey
17:30 – 18:30

Emile, or On Education

Mariano Sigman
18:30 – 19:30

How low can you go? Infants (almost) teach

Sidney Strauss

March, Tuesday 17th

08:30 – 09:30

Every child counts: Can research on core knowledge provide ways to enhance children’s readiness for learning mathematics?.

Elizabeth Spelke
09:30 – 10:30

Using network science analyses to explore large-scale brain organization and function

Steve Petersen
11:00 – 12:00

The representation of syntax in language and mathematics

Stanislas Dehaene
12:00 – 13:00

Lessons from a decade of field experiments in education in poor countries.

Esther Duflo
17:30 – 18:30

Discussion group’s conclusion 2
18:30 – 19:30

How low can you go? Infants (almost) teach

Sidney Strauss

March, Wednesday 18th

08:30 – 09:30

Electrophysiological and computational studies of the mental lexicon

Juan Valle Lisboa
09:30 – 10:30

What are Cognitively Feasible Goals for Science Education and What are the Best Ways to Achieve Those Goals?”

Frank Keil
11:00 – 12:00

Reading the Minds of Communicative Agents: Ostensive Communication in infancy.

György Gergely
12:00 – 13:00

Long-term cognitive and socio-emotional impacts of early education: pathways and persistence.

Steve Barnett
17:30 – 18:30

Emile, or On Education

Mariano Sigman