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New brain imaging technology may pave the way for a new science to understand how children think and learn. It could eventually help educators and revolutionize classrooms.

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This week, Silvia will give a talk in Buenos Aires and then head to Patagonia to participate in the 2nd Latin American School for Education, Neural and Cognitive Sciences, funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation. For announcements about future meetings, check the School’s website.

What makes this trip even more special is that Silvia’s family is from Argentina. This will be her first visit in 17 years. On top of that, the site of this year’s School is hard to beat…

First-year grad student Chloe Green has been accepted as a fellow in the Research in Cognition and Mathematics Education program at UC Berkeley. This program will cover her tuition and stipend for the next 2-3 years. Congrats, Chloe!

Frontiers, an online publisher, will be publishing an E-book on the Developing Human Brain. Here is the introduction: PDF

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Silvia Bunge are thrilled to announce the publication of a special issue of the new journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, focused on the intersection between neuroscience and education. The papers will be open access for one year, thanks to a donation from the Dana Foundation.

PDF of the introduction to the special issue 

Click here and scroll down to to access the full Special Issue on Neuroscience and Education.

Assistant Professor Linda van Leijenhorst trained with Professor Eveline Crone, who trained with Silvia. Here we were at the Nobel Forum to give talks at a conference on brain plasticity.

http://developingchild.harvard.edu/activities/council/council_members/

http://www.governor.wa.gov/news/news-view.asp?pressRelease=1793&newsType=1