The workshop will be held October 11-13, 2012. It features invited oral presentations, a poster session as well as a discussion forum.
The workshop will be held October 11-13, 2012. It features invited oral presentations, a poster session as well as a discussion forum.
Schedule
Guido Band (Leiden University, Leiden)
Predictors of acquisition speed for surgical skills
Yvonne Brehmer (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)
Neural mechanisms of lifespan age differences in episodic memory formation and plasticity
Lorenza Colzato (Leiden University, Leiden)
Genetic modulation of training and transfer in young adults: COMT Val158Met polymorphism is associated with the flexible mind
Shawn Green (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis)
Action video games and learning to learn
Bernhard Hommel (Leiden University, Leiden)
Fine-tuning cognitive-control parameters through neurofeedback and meditation
Alexander Garthe & Gerd Kempermann (Center for Regenerative Therapies, Dresden)
Adult neurogenesis as a neuronal investment loan
Julia Karbach (Saarland University, Saarbruecken), Tilo Strobach, & Torsten Schubert (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Effects of working memory training on academic abilities in middle childhood
Matthias Kliegel (University of Geneva)
Prospective memory training in healthy aging: Possibilities and limits
Torkel Klingberg (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)
Training of working memory
Arthur Kramer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Take a Walk: Physical activity, cognition and the brain
Richard Ridderinkhof (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam)
Brain training in progress
Torsten Schubert (Humboldt University, Berlin)
The impact of action video gaming and working memory training on multi-tasking skills
Florian Schmiedek (Center for Research on Education and Development, Frankfurt)
Do concepts of latent factor transfer transfer to studies of transfer?
Cora Titz (Center for Research on Education and Development, Frankfurt)
Education affects older adults' focus switching performance, but not training gains
Claudia von Bastian & Klaus Oberauer (University of Zurich, Zurich)
Can working memory be improved? Evidence from training studies based on the facet model of working memory capacity
Elisabeth Wenger, Ulman Lindenberger, & Martin Lövdén (MPI, Berlin)
Age and individual differences in adult structural brain plasticity