Wednesday, April 04, 2012

The 2012 International Workshop on Brain, Cognition and Learning (IWBCL2012)

 
    
Please see below the announcement of the pre-OHBM workshop on Brain,
Cognition and Learning, to be held on June 8-9, Beijing, China

The 2012 International Workshop on Brain, Cognition and Learning (IWBCL2012)

June 8-9, 2012, Beijing, China

http://iwbcl.bnu.edu.cn

 We are pleased to announce that the 2012 International Workshop on
Brain, Cognition and Learning (IWBCL) will be held on June 8-9, 2012
at the China National Conventional Center (CNCC) in Beijing, as a
satellite conference of 2012 Organization of Human Brain Mapping
(OHBM) Annual Conference. This workshop is co-organized by the
National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning,
Beijing Normal University and the Society of Brain Sciences and
Education Research, a division of the Chinese Society of Education
(CSE).

 This year the IWBCL will focus on language learning. The theme for
this workshop is set as “Towards an integrated perspective of language
learning”, to reflect the trend that the cognitive neuroscience of
language has increasingly become an interdisciplinary endeavor.

 Confirmed Speakers.

§   Yanchao Bi, Beijing Normal University

§   James Booth, Northwestern University

§   Urs Maurer, University of Zurich

§   Marcus Meinzer,  Charite Universitasmedizin

§   Russell A. Poldrack, University of Texas at Austin

§   Bradley L. Schlaggar, Washington University School of Medicine

§   Mark Seidenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison

§   Hua Shu, Beijing Normal University

§   Michael Ullman, Georgetown University

§   Richard J. Wise, Imperial College London

§   Gui Xue, Beijing Normal University

§   Jason D. Zevin, Weill Medical College of Cornell University



Participants are encouraged to fill the online registration form by
May 1, 2012 to secure a seat. For more information, please visit our
website http://iwcbl.bnu.edu.cn . We look forward to seeing you in
Beijing this June!