各位老师：

您好！由丁国盛老师邀请了Harvard-Smithsonian Center for  Astrophysics的Prof. Matthew H. Schneps到实验室讲座，欢迎感兴趣的老师和同学去听。

时间：周一（7月22日）上午 10：00

地点：脑成像中心三楼小会议室（309）

报告题目： Paying Attention to  Dyslexia

报告人：Prof. Matthew H. Schneps

报告摘要：

Attention networks in the brain act  to enhance irrelevant inputs, to make the most of limited neuronal circuitry.  Capacities for attention naturally varies among individuals and furthermore  attention can be enhanced through training. In recent years it has been shown  that some learning disabilities, such as dyslexia are associated with deficits  for attention. Here we will show how such deficits can exacerbate impairments in  reading, but also lead to advantages important in certain careers such as  science or medicine.

报告人简介：

Dr. Matthew H. Schneps is a founding  member of the Science  Education Department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for  Astrophysics (CfA). The Science Education Department is one of the first, and  among one of the largest research groups dedicated to science education in the  US, that has carried out close to $100M in funded education programs since its  inception. Schneps received his PhD in Physics from MIT in 1979, and joined CfA  first as an astrophysicist, but evolved his interests to questions of science  learning, his major preoccupation since 1983. In these past three decades he has  focused on questions of how different people approach learning scientific ideas,  regardless of ages or level of expertise. Recently, he has focused on how  differences in individual neurology affects science learning, examining  questions related to learning disabilities, among other areas.

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