Translating Scientific and Technological Advances From the Laboratory to the Classroom: It’s About Time

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Without us really thinking about it, our brain is organizing all of our sensory experiences as well as motor output in real time. Functions as diverse as learning language, learning to play a musical instrument, and how to produce and perceive emotional feelings from the muscle movements of the face all depend on learning precise, dynamic perceptual and motor timing. This symposium will present highlights from the collaborative research being conducted jointly by scientists and educators in the NSF-funded Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center that is being translated from the laboratory to the classroom. The scientific presentations and demonstrations are relevant to educators and scientists interested in individual differences in typical development, as well as atypical development, including language and literacy impairments, attention deficits or autism.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Brain, Neurosciences and Education

Chair

• Paula Tallal, Rutgers University

Papers

• Enhancing Language and Literacy Is a Matter of Time - Paula Tallal, Rutgers University

• Neuroplasticity-Based “Video Game” Training Improves Students’ Writing Skills - Beth A. Rogowsky, Rutgers University

• Modeling Natural Facial Behavior With Computer Vision: Explorations in Learning Contexts - Gwen Littlewort, University of California - San Diego; Gwen Littlewort, University of California - San Diego

• Demonstration of a Novel Face-Processing and Production Intervention Program for Autism - Jim Tanaka, University of Victoria

• The Gamelan Project: A Study of Synchrony and Attention - Alex Khalil, University of California - San Diego

• Gamelan Project Demonstration: Online Analysis of Synchrony - Victor Minces, University of California - San Diego