NEURO-CONNECT Tuesday Seminar, December 16th, 12:15 – 13:15 pm

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to the next NEURO-Connect seminar, which will take place on December 16th at 12:15 in room H8-01-D at Campus Biotech.

The next session will be hosted by UNIGE. The speaker will be Dr. Shawn (University of Wisconsin-Madison), with the talk “Individual Differences in Learning Generalization”. Please see abstract and other details below.

Private meetings with Dr. S. Green can be organized, and early career researchers (ECR, e.g., doctoral and postdoctoral) are encouraged to join the invited speaker for a networking lunch offered by the FCBG (10 spots, first-come, first-served). To indicate your wish to meet one-to-one with Dr. S. Green, please write to Daphne.Bavelier@unige.ch, and to register for the ECR lunch after the talk, please fill-in the following survey Lunch registration. The deadline in both cases is, Monday December 15th. This delay is needed to be able to properly organize the schedule and to order the correct number of meals in time. We thank you for your cooperation.

Doctoral students can receive credits for their attendance, please don’t forget to have your attendance sheet signed.

For any questions on this event, you can contact the session organizer at Daphne.Bavelier@unige.ch.

Looking forward to seeing you at NEURO-Connect.

The organizing team

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NEURO-CONNECT seminars
Tuesday, December 16th
12:15 – 13:15
Campus Biotech, H8-1-D

Dr. Shawn Green (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

“Individual Differences in Learning Generalization”

There is a substantial body of research focused on individual-level factors that predict differences in the ability to learn. Such factors include personality traits (e.g., openness to experience, motivation, growth mindset), base cognitive capacities (e.g., fluid intelligence, working memory), and life experiences (e.g., patterns of video game play or participation in certain sports).  There is considerably less research though on individual differences in the ability to generalize learning to new contexts – particularly when co-varying out the original base abilities to learn.  Here I’ll present research from a number of different learning domains – perceptual, categorization, motor – where we have observed different patterns of factors predicting base learning abilities (which largely mirror those seen in previous work) – versus the ability to then generalize that learning to new situations (e.g., task-switching ability having essentially zero relationship with base learning, but being one of the strongest predictors of the capacity to generalize learning to new situations).  I’ll discuss this in the context of possible interventions, as this work suggests either additional (or perhaps alternative) targets for interventions if the goal is to improve real-life learning outcomes.

Zoom:https://eu01web.zoom.us/j/68616269850?pwd=tT5Rm7YarJgaV4ZWQYNa86MEmga0MT.1

Meeting ID: 686 1626 9850
Passcode: 097437

Disclaimer: the Neuro-Connect seminars are recorded. By participating, you authorize the possible capture and use of your image or voice in audiovisual recordings made during the event.

The NEURO-Connect seminars aim at presenting different areas of the neuroscience community in Campus Biotech, ranging from cognition and emotion to neurobiology and neuroengineering, with the support of all institutions active on the site, including the UNIGE (NEUFO, CISA, FPSE), NCCR Evolving Language, EPFL (Neuro-X), HUG, CIBM and Wyss Center, and with the support of the Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva.

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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Daphne.Bavelier@unige.ch.