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 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

Prof. Harvey Goldstein
Professor, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol

Prof. Stanislas Dehaene
Chair of Experimental Psychology at the Collège de France and Director of INSERM Unit Cognitive Neuroimaging

Prof. Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Pediatrician, Director of the Developmental Brain Imaging Lab INSERM, France

Prof. Arcangelo Merla
Director of the Infrared Imaging and Near Infrared Imaging Labs Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technology (ITAB), University of Chieti, Italy

Following the successes of the Science of Learning Winter Institute 2014, 2015 and Summerfest 2014, 2015, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Winter Institute 2016. This year’s Winter Institute will be held from 7 December 2015 to 20 January 2016, involving a series of public lectures, seminars as well as two symposiums and two methodology workshops to strengthen our research capacity and to incubate interdisciplinary research ideas. During this period, we are very privileged to have Professor Laura-Ann Petitto, HKU Sin Wai-Kin Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities and Professor in Psychology Department of Gallaudet University, and Professor Kevin Dunbar, Research Visiting Professor of the University of Hong Kong and Director of the Laboratory for Complex Thinking, Creativity and Educational Neuroscience of the University of Maryland resident on our campus during this whole period, in addition to other scholars contributing to the events of the Winter Institute.

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