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.