Over 30,000 neuroscientists are descending on New Orleans as we speak, for the annual Society for Neuroscience conference. Silvia wishes she could be among them, but is holding down the fort at UC Berkeley this year… We will have two talks at SfN this year:
Kirstie Whitaker will fly back from her new postdoc in the U.K. to speak on Sunday morning in this special session:
And Alison Miller Singley will speak on Monday afternoon about work that she carried out with Allyson Mackey:
Kirstie will show that development of a specific white matter tract in the brain – the left frontoparietal tract – is particularly important for reasoning development from age 6-19 (even after accounting for massive age-related changes in both white matter and reasoning ability over this age range). Alison will show that fMRI is more sensitive than *some* behavioral measures when it comes to measuring the benefits of cognitive training.
Finally, conference-goers will see the artwork of our dear friend Elizabeth Jameson on the cover of a complementary copy of the Journal of Neuroscience: http://www.jneurosci.org/