Our photo gallery has been updated! We have new pictures of Dani and Abbie’s Hilldale award ceremony, pictures of the lab BBQ, and pictures of the Bio 152 poster session. See the new pictures under the our people tab.
Ed Neuro Lab undergrads to present in Bio 152
Three Ed. Neuro. Lab undergrads, Cooper Siepmann, Grace George and Jen Hathaway, will present in the Biology 152 Poster Session this Wednesday, May 7, from 4-7 pm in Union South. Jen and Grace will present their work on multisensory enhancement of congruent number, while Cooper will present his work on multisensory conflict in number. If you can attend, please come and support all of the amazing UW undergrads involved in research.
Congrats to our undergraduate scholarship winners!
Congratulations to the three Ed Neuro Lab undergraduates have won scholarships to continue their research this summer!
Dani Day and Abbie Zellner have won Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowships. Dani and Abbie were among 112 winners, out of 245 applications. The Hilldale Fellowships will provide them with summer support and some additional funds to pursue their projects examining the cognitive foundations of basic numerical processes. Dani will be exploring the degree to which we can map between number across the senses (multisensory integration of number), while Abbie will be exploring the processes that link between basic numerical representations and number symbols.
In addition, McKenna Splett has won a Welton Honors Summer Sophomore Research Apprenticeship to fund her research into the consequences of synesthesia on learning and memory.
Ed Neuro Lab Presentations Next Week
Next week, the Ed. Neuro. Lab will be making multiple presentations around the UW-Madison campus. First, our URS students, Grace George and Taylor Shiff will be presenting at the URS Undergraduate Symposium on Thursday, April 10. In addition, Ed will be giving two presentations, on Tuesday April 8 as part of the Waisman Early Childhood Seminar Series and on Friday, April 11 in the Neuroscience and Public Policy Seminar.
Liz Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Our PhD student, Liz Toomarian was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to fund the next three years of her graduate studies. Out of 14000 applicants, only 2000 Fellowships were awarded. Liz is one of only 30 grad students at UW-Madison who received an NSF Fellowship this year, and one of 35 people in the entire country to receive an award in the Psychology-Cognitive Neuroscience area. Congratulations, Liz!
Ed and Percival’s Talk at BHS now Available on Vimeo
On February 18, Ed and MELD Lab PI Percival Matthews had the honor of jointly speaking to the Bascom Hill Society, the oldest organization for supporters of the University of Wisconsin. Our talk, titled “Connecting Education and Neuroscience to get the Whole Picture” focuses on linking our understanding of cognitive development, neuroscience and education to better understand the difficulties that many children have with fractions, and to, in turn, better understand how improve fractions instruction.
Ed to be interviewed on WORT-FM
At 7:00 pm next Thursday, March 6, Ed will be interviewed for local radio station WORT-FM’s “Perpetual Notion Machine” program, focusing on the learning processes in the brain. Ed will talk about what is known about how brains shape, and are shaped by, various learning experiences, leading to specialized systems in the brain for reading, math and a number of other skills.
The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia Featured in Psychology Today Blog
The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia was featured in a new blog post by author and synesthete Maureen Seaberg over at Psychology Today. Maureen’s blog, titled Sensorium, discusses a number of issues related to synesthesia, including famous synesthetes, recent research and other happenings of interest to the synesthesia community. Today, she reviewed the Oxford Handbook and quoted me and my co-editor, Julia Simner, extensively about the process of writing a Handbook of this scope.
Video of “The Pre-School Genius” Panel now available on WPT’s University Place
“The Pre-School Genius: Teaching Math and Science to Early Learners” Panel that Ed was part of for the Wisconsin Science Fest is now available on Wisconsin Public Television’s University Place. The video is about 90 minutes long, and includes Ed, Anita Wagar from Curriculum and Instruction, Rosemarie Truglio, senior vice president of education and research at Sesame Workshop and Rachel Connolly, education director at NOVA. So, we go from baby brains to Sesame Street to NOVA in about 90 minutes! The School of Education has also posted a brief write up about the panel here.
Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia now available through Oxford Handbooks Online
The Oxford Handbook of Synesthesia is now also available (with subscription) through the Oxford Handbooks Online web catalog, with all of the same content that is available in the hardcover version, plus links to a variety of other related content. You can find the electronic version of the book here. Don’t forget that there is also a google books preview of the book available here.