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Belén Guerra-Carrillo to speak about Cognition, Learning and How to Conduct a 200,000-participant Study at the 2017 SharpBrains Virtual Summit

September 8, 2017 by Alvaro Fernandez

Proud to con­firm a new excel­lent Speak­er @ 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Decem­ber 5–7th).

Belén Guer­ra-Car­ril­lo is an NSF fel­low and a doc­tor­al stu­dent at UC Berke­ley in Prof. Sil­via Bunge’s Build­ing Blocks of Cog­ni­tion Lab. She is par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in the neur­al and cog­ni­tive mech­a­nisms that give rise to changes that occur as a result of learn­ing, and uses mul­ti­ple methodologies–eye-tracking, neu­roimag­ing, big data and more– to gain a rich­er pic­ture of how and when these changes take place, as well as the fac­tors that may influ­ence indi­vid­ual learn­ing tra­jec­to­ries, as evi­denced by the fas­ci­nat­ing recent study pub­lished just two weeks ago and out­lined below.

UC Berke­ley study links cog­ni­tive longevi­ty to high­er edu­ca­tion (The Dai­ly Californian):

“A study led by cam­pus researchers found that high­er lev­els of edu­ca­tion are linked to lat­er ages of peak cog­ni­tive performance…The team was able to use anony­mous data gath­ered from almost 200,000 sub­scribers to Lumos­i­ty, an online cog­ni­tive train­ing pro­gram, whose users con­sent­ed that their results could be used for sci­en­tif­ic research. Lumos­i­ty became involved in the study through its Human Cog­ni­tion Project, which aims to pro­vide researchers with cog­ni­tive data from Lumosity’s train­ing tools [Read more…] about Belén Guer­ra-Car­ril­lo to speak about Cog­ni­tion, Learn­ing and How to Con­duct a 200,000-participant Study at the 2017 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Summit

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: big data, cognition, cognitive, eye-tracking, Human Cognition Project, Learning, Lumosity, neural, neuroimaging, NSF, NSF Fellow, UC-Berkeley

The National Science Foundation (NSF) funds Neurotechnology Hubs and innovative tools to advance research on Brain & Behavior

August 2, 2017 by SharpBrains

 

– Cor­nell Uni­ver­si­ty neu­ro­sci­en­tist Chris Xu will study how brains pro­duce behav­ior in species across a range of sizes.

NSF issues awards to advance a nation­al research infra­struc­ture for neu­ro­science (press release by the Nation­al Sci­ence Foundation):

“The Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion (NSF) has made 17 Next Gen­er­a­tion Net­works for Neu­ro­science (Neu­roNex) awards to aid the research com­mu­ni­ty as it pur­sues one of its grand­est chal­lenges: under­stand­ing the brain.

These projects will sup­port the devel­op­ment of inno­v­a­tive, acces­si­ble and shared capa­bil­i­ties and resources, as well as the­o­ret­i­cal frame­works and com­pu­ta­tion­al mod­el­ing to advance neu­ro­science research [Read more…] about The Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion (NSF) funds Neu­rotech­nol­o­gy Hubs and inno­v­a­tive tools to advance research on Brain & Behavior

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Filed Under: Peak Performance, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: behavior, brain, innovative, National Science Foundation, neural circuits, neural-activity, NeuroNex, neuroscience, neurotechnologies, Neurotechnology, NSF

Harnessing big data and videogames to deliver personalized cognitive training

November 20, 2014 by SharpBrains

Har­ness­ing big data and videogames to deliv­er per­son­al­ized cog­ni­tive train­ing from Sharp­Brains: Track­ing Brain Health Inno­va­tion

Enjoy this great ses­sion held at the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit, fea­tur­ing:

  • Dr. Joe Hardy, ?VP of R&D at Lumos Labs
  • Mark Bax­ter, Head of Prod­uct (Fit­Brains) at Roset­ta Stone
  • Ita­mar Lesu­isse, CEO of Peak
  • Aki Niko­laidis, NSF Fel­low at the Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois Cham­paign Urbana
  • Chair: Zack Lynch, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of the Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Indus­try Organization

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Education & Lifelong Learning, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: big data, Cognitive-Training, Fit­Brains, lumos-labs, Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Indus­try Organization, NSF, Peak, Rosetta Stone, Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois Cham­paign Urbana, videogames

Shaping the Brain Fitness Movement: Preliminary Summit Agenda unveiled

July 25, 2014 by SharpBrains

2014_SharpBrains_Virtual_Summit_Shaping the Practice and the Future of Brain FitnessWe are pleased to announce the Pre­lim­i­nary Agen­da for the 2014 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (Octo­ber 28–30th, 2014), fea­tur­ing these world-class sci­en­tists, inno­va­tors and prac­ti­tion­ers (and more com­ing soon!). Please con­sid­er join­ing us:

  • Dr. Adam Gaz­za­ley, Direc­tor of the Neu­ro­science Imag­ing Cen­ter at the Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, San Francisco
  • Aki Niko­laidis, NSF Fel­low at the Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois Cham­paign Urbana
  • Alex Doman, Co-founder of Sleep Genius

[Read more…] about Shap­ing the Brain Fit­ness Move­ment: Pre­lim­i­nary Sum­mit Agen­da unveiled

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: AnthroTronix, Baycrest, brain fitness movement, Brain-Fitness, Brain-Resource, cognifit, Dig­i­tal Artefacts, Inter­na­tional Space Med­i­cine Consortium, lumos-labs, NSF, Peak, Philips Healthcare, Qual­comm Life Fund, Rosetta Stone, sleep genius, Stan­ford Grad­u­ate School of Business, UC Santa Bar­bara, UCSF, Uni­ver­sity of Geneva, Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois Cham­paign Urbana, Uni­ver­sity of Mass­a­chu­setts Med­ical School, Wal­ter Reed National Mil­i­tary Med­ical Center

BRAIN Initiative: New call to action amidst growing skepticism

February 25, 2014 by SharpBrains

humanconnectomeA White House Call To Action to Advance the BRAIN Ini­tia­tive (press release):

“Under this ini­tia­tive, Fed­er­al agen­cies such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Nation­al Insti­tutes of Health (NIH), the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion (NSF), and the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) are sup­port­ing the devel­op­ment and appli­ca­tion of inno­v­a­tive, new tech­nolo­gies that can cre­ate a dynam­ic under­stand­ing of brain func­tion and its rela­tion­ship to behav­ior [Read more…] about BRAIN Ini­tia­tive: New call to action amidst grow­ing skepticism

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Filed Under: Technology & Innovation Tagged With: behavior, BRAIN Initiative, brain-function, DARPA, FDA, Human Brain Project, NIH, NSF, White House

NSF Smart and Connected Health Program Director to speak at 2013 SharpBrains Summit

June 12, 2013 by SharpBrains

Misha_Pavel_BWMisha Pavel, PhD, is the Pro­gram Direc­tor in charge of the Nation­al Sci­ence Foun­da­tion’s Smart and Con­nected Health port­fo­lio, designed to accel­er­ate the devel­op­ment and use of inno­v­a­tive health­care approach­es that are pre­ven­tive, proac­tive, evi­dence-based, per­son-cen­tered and focused on well-being rather than dis­ease. Con­cur­rently, he has an appoint­ment as a Pro­fes­sor in the Depart­ment of Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing, and a joint appoint­ment in the Depart­ment of Med­ical Infor­mat­ics and Clin­i­cal Epi­demi­ol­ogy, at Ore­gon Health and Sci­ence Uni­ver­sity. Pri­or to his aca­d­e­mic career, he was a mem­ber of the tech­ni­cal staff at Bell Lab­o­ra­to­ries, where his research includ­ed net­work analy­sis and mod­el­ing. Misha Pavel is a Senior Mem­ber of IEEE.

–> To Learn More and Reg­is­ter, click on 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Sep­tem­ber 19–20th, 2013

Syn­op­sis of the Smart and Con­nect­ed Health Pro­gram: [Read more…] about NSF Smart and Con­nect­ed Health Pro­gram Direc­tor to speak at 2013 Sharp­Brains Summit

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Filed Under: Brain/ Mental Health, Technology & Innovation Tagged With: connected health, healthcare, Misha-Pavel, National Science Foundation, NSF, smart health

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