ESRC Seminar on Cognitive Training in Children
MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit Cambridge, 11th – 12th January 2016
11th January
12.30 Arrive and lunch
13.20 Welcome: Fiona McNab (University of Birmingham) and Susan Gathercole (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit)
13.30 Edmund Sonuga-Barke (University of Southampton)
RCT of cognitive training for ADHD: Drawing inference about trial design, treatment scope and disorder pathophysiology
14.15 Michelle Elefson (University of Cambridge)
Chess as a cognitive intervention for older children attending schools in high poverty communities
15.30 Break
16.00 Emma Blakey (University of Sheffield)
Can cognitive training improve executive functions in pre-schoolers?
16.45 Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge)
Improving children’s reading and phonology with GraphoGame Rime
17.30 Close
19.00 Dinner: Peking Restaurant, 10 Homerton Street, Cambridge CB2 8NX
12th January
09.00 Sam Wass (University of East London)
Training attentional control in infancy
09.45 Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institute, Sweden)
Predicting Individual Response to Combined Mathematical and Cognitive Training in Children
10.30 Break
11.00 Duncan Astle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
Altering developing neurophysiology with cognitive training
11.45 Susan Gathercole (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit)
Working memory training is learning to do something different
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch and depart
To register to attend email deborah.mcskimming@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk