International GCOE Symposium on Neurocognitive Development "Shedding Light on Developing Brain"

Title: “Shedding Light on Developing Brain”

Date and Time: Saturday, 30th January, 2010; 10:00 – 16:40

Venue: G-SEC Lab, 6th Floor, East Building, Mita Campus, Keio University

Speakers and Themes:

Takeo Tsuji (Associate Professor, Dept. Human Relations, Keio University); “Pharmacological NIRS study of antihistamine effects in young children”

Mariko Ohta (Research Fellow, CARLS, Keio University); “Causal relationship between cerebral hemodynamics, electroencephalography, and cardiovascular activity”

Emmanuel Dupoux (Director of Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, ENS-EHESS-DEC-CNRS, France) ; “Early phonetic learning in infants: data and model”

Susan Hespos (Associate Professor, Psychology Dept., Northwestern University, USA); “Shedding new light on cognition: Optical imaging on human infants using motor, visual, and language tasks”

Nozomi Naoi (Research Fellow of JST, Kyoto University); “Assessing cortical response to speech in high-risk neonates: Evidence from near-infrared spectroscopy”

Fumitaka Homae (Assistant Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University); “Development of functional architecture in the infant brain”

Chair: Yasuyo Minagawa-Kawai (Associate Professor, Dept. Human Relations, Keio University)

Organized by: Global COE “Centre for Advanced Research on Logic and Sensibility”

Reference: ” Shedding Light on Developing Brain”

Registration Procedure:

Please provide all information requested below by sending an e-mail to: keiocarls@info.keio.ac.jp
Requested information: Name / Affiliation / E-mail address
Registration deadline: Friday 15 January, 2010