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您好！由SIEGLER创新学习研究中心邀请了University College  London的Dr. Yulia  Kovas到实验室讲座，欢迎对基因行为研究、基因与教育、认知发展等领域感兴趣的老师和同学参加。

报告时间：周五（9月6日）上午 10：00-11：00

报告地点：京师大厦9420会议室

报告题目：Genetics and Education:  The good, the bad, and the ugly.

报告人：Dr. Yulia  Kovas【http://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/staff/kovas/  】

报告人简介：

Dr. Kovas is a Reader  at Goldsmiths College and a visiting lecturer at Birkbeck, UCL, King's, and New  York Universities. Dr. Kovas teaches Genetics and Psychology and supervises many  BSc, MSc, PhD, and Post-graduate students' research in the UK and abroad. Dr.  Kovas' current research projects include: investigations of genetic and  environmental etiology of individual differences in mathematical ability and  disability; investigation of etiology of covariation and comorbidity between  different learning abilities and disabilities; cross-cultural studies of sources  of variation in cognitive abilities, with a particular focus on numerical  ability and achievement. Dr. Kovas is also leading the genetically-sensitive  mathematics research in theTwins Early Development Study (TEDS) at the SGDP  Centre, King's College, London. Dr. Kovas co-directs the Russian-British  Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics.

代表作：Butterworth, Brian and  Kovas, Yulia. 2013.Understanding Neurocognitive Developmental Disorders Can  Improve Education for All. Science , 19 April: 340 (6130), 300-305.Docherty, Sophia J.,  Kovas, Yulia and Plomin, Robert. 2011. Gene-Environment Interaction in the  Etiology of Mathematical Ability Using SNP Sets. Behavior Genetics, 41(1), pp.  141-154. ISSN 0001-8244Kovas, Yulia. 2007. The  origins of diverse domains of mathematics: Generalist genes but specialist  environments. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(5), pp. 198-203.Kovas, Yulia and  Plomin, R.. 2006. Generalist Genes: Implications for Cognitive Sciences.  Opinion. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(5), pp. 198-203. ISSN  13646613Kovas, Yulia and  Plomin, R.. 2005. Generalist genes and learning disabilities. Psychological  Bulletin, 131(4), pp. 592-617. ISSN 00332909

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