Category: ◎Winter Institute
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Leading the marriage of education and neuroscience-challenges and opportunities for 21st Century Educators
Speaker: Dr. Akaysha Tang, Program Director at the Office of International Science & Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF) of the United States; Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of New Mexico, USA Date: 22 January 2016 (Friday) Time: 11:00 am -12:30 pm Venue: Room 101 Runme Shaw Building Chair: Professor Brendan Weekes [button size=”normal” type=”info” value=”Register…
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Thermal IR Imaging and fNIRS Integration (Winter Institute 2016)
Date: Thursday, 14January 2016 Time: 10:30-12:30 Venue: Room 101 & 104, Runme Shaw Building Speakers: Prof. Laura-Ann Petitto HKU Sin Wai-Kin Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities; Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. USA; Co-PI & Science Director, NSF Science of Learning Center, Visual Language and Visual Learning, VL2 Prof. Arcangelo Merla…
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Revolutionary Science, Robots, Avatars, and Changing the Nature of Learning for Meaningful Translation to Society (Winter Institute 2016)
Date: 15 January 2016 (Friday) Time: 18:00-19:30 Venue: Room 201, K. K. Leung Building Speaker: Prof. Laura-Ann Petitto HKU Sin Wai-Kin Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities; Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. USA; Co-PI & Science Director, NSF Science of Learning Center, Visual Language and Visual Learning, VL2 [button size=”normal” type=”info” value=”Register ” href=”https://sol.edu.hku.hk/register-revolutionary-science-robots-avatars-and-changing-the-nature-of-learning-for-meaningful-translation-to-society-winter-institute-2016/”]…
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Assessment of Human Emotion and Arousal in Social Interaction through Thermal Infrared Imaging: New Insights for the Neurosciences and Human-machine Interaction (Winter Institute 2016)
Date: 13 January 2016 (Wednesday) Time: 12:45-14:00 Venue: Room 101 & 104 Runme Shaw Building Speaker: Professor Arcangelo Merla, Director of the Infrared Imaging and Near Infrared Imaging Labs Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technology (ITAB), University of Chieti, Italy [button size=”normal” type=”info” value=”Register” href=”https://sol.edu.hku.hk/register-assessment-of-human-emotion-and-arousal-in-social-interaction-through-thermal-infrared-imaging-new-insights-for-the-neurosciences-and-human-machine-interaction-winter-institute-2016/”] Abstract The evaluation of the psychophysiological state of the interlocutor is an…
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Harnessing Discovery, Conceptual Change & Creativity in the 21st Century (Winter Institute 2016)
Date: 14 January 2016 (Thursday) Time: 18:00-19:30 Venue: Room 102 K. K. Leung Building Chair: Professor Carol K. K. Chan Speaker: Professor Kevin Niall Dunbar Visiting Research Professor of the University of Hong Kong; Director of the Laboratory for Complex Thinking, Creativity and Educational Neuroscience; Professor of the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, College of Education,…
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What the Brain Reveals about the Nature of Human Learning (Winter Institute 2016)
Date: 12 January 2016 (Tuesday) Time: 12:45 – 14:00 Venue: Room 101 & 104, Runme Shaw Building Speaker: Professor Kevin Niall Dunbar Visiting Research Professor of the University of Hong Kong; Director of the Laboratory for Complex Thinking, Creativity and Educational Neuroscience; Professor of the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, College of Education, University of Maryland College Park…
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An Introductory Workshop on Multilevel Modeling
Date: 19-20 January 2016 (Tuesday & Wednesday) Time: 9:30 -18:00 Venue: Room 101 & 104 Runme Shaw Building By Professor Harvey Goldstein, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol Registration to this workshop is closed. Abstract The workshop will be hands on and participants will be expected to provide their own laptop computers running windows 7…
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Winter Institute 2016
Date: 7 Dec 2015 – 20 Jan 2016 Venue: The University of Hong Kong Invited speakers: Prof. Laura-Ann Petitto HKU Sin Wai-Kin Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities; Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. USA; Co-PI & Science Director, NSF Science of Learning Center, Visual Language and Visual Learning, VL2 Prof. Kevin…
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Winter Institute 2015
Registration 9-28 January 2015 The University of Hong Kong Prof. Laura-Ann PETITTO Prof. Kevin N DUNBAR Prof. Glyn HUMPHREYS Dr. LIM, Soo-Siang Dr. Nancy SUNG Research on learning has advanced in leaps and bounds in the past decade, featuring major breakthroughs in our understanding of learning brought about by the pioneering work of interdisciplinary teams with…