Ed was interviewed for a story about synesthesia, The Science Behind Why Some People Can Taste Words, by Laura Donovan for ATTN magazine. The story focuses on lexical-gustatory synesthesia, and how synesthetes might use their experiences in learning and memory.
Ed to Speak at Harvard
Ed will be at Harvard Friday, October 23 as part of a one-day workshop titled “Synesthesia – A Window into Brain Development” hosted by Takao Hensch and Daphne Maurer. He will be speaking about “Developing & Decoding Synesthesia” including our recent work using multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to decode the neural mechanisms of synesthesia (see also our SFN presentation that Radhika will be giving this week).
SFN Here We Come!
The Ed. Neuro. Lab (minus Ed) will be in Chicago for the Society for Neuroscience Annual meeting! Liz and Radhika will be presenting posters:
On Monday, Oct. 19, Liz will be presenting on our fMRI-Adaptation work to explore the neural foundations of fractions processing Grounding symbolic fractions in the ratio processing system: A developmental fMRI-A study.
On Wednesday, Oct. 21, Radhika will be presenting our collaboration with Brad Postle’s group to use MVPA to help identify the neural mechanisms of grapheme-color synesthesia : Decoding grapheme-color synesthesia using multivariate pattern analysis.
Ed to Speak at Nebraska Educational Neuroscience Conference
Ed will be in Lincoln, Nebraska Thursday and Friday to speak at their 2015 Educational Neuroscience Conference. Topics will include music and the brain, fractions learning, learning styles, and the importance of sleep for learning. It promises to be a fun two days!
Radhika to Present at the American Synesthesia Association
Ed and Radhika will be in Florida this weekend (October 2-4) at the American Synesthesia Association meeting at the University of Miami, Florida. Radhika will be giving a talk titled “Decoding Grapheme-Color Synesthesia”, which presents our multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) decoding results with real colors and synesthetic colors. Ed is one of the ASA board members and organizers of the conference. Next year (2016), we will be hosting the ASA in Madison!
Ed quoted in WJS story about “Brain-Balancing” Program
Ed was quoted in a skeptical Wisconsin Journal Sentinel story out today about a “Brain Balancing” program to help remediate a number of learning difficulties Selling Hope: Company pushes brain-balancing program for learning disabilities; evidence lacking. This is one of the dangers of neuroscience and education; the enthusiasm and claims often far outpace the evidence.
Ed in Amsterdam to Speak at the Summer School on Multisensory Integration and Synesthesia
Ed is (back) in Amsterdam to speak at the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition (ABC) Summer School on Multisensory Integration and Synesthesia. The symposium on synesthesia caps two weeks of advanced courses in the neuroscience of multisensory integration, with a daylong discussion of synesthesia and how it relates to multisensory integration. In addition to Ed, speakers include David Brang and Romke Rouw.
Bio 152 Posters Today
Four of our undergraduates students will presenting three research projects today in the Biology 152 poster session:
Brody Fitzpatrick, Aaron Muesch, Radhika Gosavi, & Edward M. Hubbard “Encoding and Retrieval Mechanisms During Memory Recall in Grapheme-Color Synesthetes: An Investigation of the Testing Effect”
Bryce Sprecher, John Binzak, and Edward Hubbard “The Cost of the Bar: Accessing Holistic Magnitudes Through Fraction Notation”
Rylan Benson, Zachary P. Grulke, & Edward M. Hubbard “The effect of joint attention intervention on behavior and cognition in autism: An EEG study”
Come by to support our incredible students, and to eat some free food.
Congratulations to our summer fellowship winners
Congratulations to three of our undergraduates for their summer fellowship awards. Becky Liu is the winner of a Welton Sophomore Research Apprenticeship Grant, and Grace George and Jen Hathaway are winners of the Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship. Congratulations Jen, Grace and Becky!
Ed quoted in a new story about dyscalculia
Ed was quoted in a new story about dyscalculia, based on the experiences of our friend Renee Newman-Hamilton, who runs the website http://www.dyscalculia.org/. The story, written by Agata Blaszczak Boxe, is titled The Brain That Just Doesn’t Get Numbers.