Dr. Rosemary Tannock is speaking on Wednesday, April 23, at 4pm in B03 Moore
Hall on the Dartmouth campus. The title of the talk is "Paying Attention to
Inattention: Will Understanding the Neuroscience of Attention Help Clinicians
and Educators Help Inattentive Youngsters?"
Professor Andrew Garrod is the 2008 Dartmouth recipient of the Campus Compact for New Hampshire Good Steward Award. This award is given to
a member of the college community "who has contributed his or her professional
expertise in service to the wider community, demonstrated commitment towards student and community voice, and served as a resource for service initiatives
An article recently published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Advance Access, authored by Chiyoko Kobayashi, Gary Glover and Elise Temple, is
featured on Nature's website. For a summary, please click here.
Donna Coch, Assistant Professor of Education, was awarded a Rockefeller Faculty Research Grant for the 2007-2008 academic year for "The Rhyming Brain in Beginning Readers."
Professor Elise Temple turns her attention to math learning disabilities.
The Inaugural Conference of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society was held on November 1 to 3 in Fort Worth, Texas. Professor Donna Coch presented an invited paper entitled "Through the looking glass: ERPs in an MBE world."
The books Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Typical Development and Human Behavior, Learning, and the Developing Brain: Atypical Development, co-edited by Donna Coch, Kurt Fischer, and Geraldine Dawson, were reviewed in the New England Journal of Medicine.
A research article by Professor Elise Temple and colleagues suggests that having been effected by a trauma earlier in life may effect a response to stress later, even years later.
A recent study coauthored by Professor Elise Temple shows that special training can help improve reading ability and normal brain responses in children with dyslexia. press release
Professor Donna Coch is
editor of Human behavior, learning, and the
developing brain: atypical
development and Human behavior, learning, and the
developing brain: typical
development, published in February and May 2007.
Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories
and Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories have just
been published by Cornell University Press both are narratives written by
Dartmouth undergraduates and co-edited by Professor Andrew Garrod..
Professor Donna Coch presentation "Brain and Behavioral Evidence Related to How Children Learn to Read" at conference on May 9 2007.