Fall Academy 2010

Date: October 14–18, 2010
Location: Schwanenwerder, Berlin

Lectures

Infant research: Perception of objects, faces, and actions
Evelyn Bertin, University of Zurich (UZh)
Modeling resilience with differential equations
Steve Boker, University of Virginia (UVa)
Improvements in control over memory during childhood
Silvia Bunge, University of California – Berkeley
The process of parenting
Pamela Davis-Kean, University of Michigan (UM)
Physiological and health implications of defensive personality traits
Robin Edelstein, UM
Enriched environments: A good model for what?
Gerd Kempermann, CRTD — Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden
Can medial temporal lobe integrity be improved in adulthood?
Martin Lövdén, MPI for Human Development (MPIB)
Representing process via dynamic factor modeling with the idiographic filter
John R. Nesselroade, UVa
Age differences in callosal contributions to cognitive and motor functions
Rachael Seidler, UM
Why do we become overweight and hypertensive with age?
Arno Villringer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU)
Modeling coupled changes using multilevel factor analysis
Daniel Zimprich, UZh

Fellow Presentations

Training-induced neural plasticity
Ladina Bezzola, UZh
Race/ethnic differences on links between puberty and girls’ depressive symptoms and delinquent behaviors: immediate and long-term effects
Rona Carter, UM
Does the apple fall far from the tree? Evidence for intergenerational links in self-regulation from a household study
Reinhard Drobetz, UZh
How do the deaf read? A dual-route cascaded model of reading without sounds
Eeva Elliott, FU
Adult age differences in monitoring highly familiar events
Yana Fandakova, MPIB
The impact of social resources and motivational abilities on cognitive decline and risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Sonja Fankhauser, UZh
Environmental factors regulate adult hippocampal neurogenesis in mice
Julia Freund, CRTD
Are wiser people happier people? An exploration of the relationship between well-being and wise reasoning
Igor Grossmann, UM
Personality and social relationships as antecedents and consequences of fertility attitudes, decisions, and outcomes: A longitudinal perspective
Roos Hutteman, HU
Divorce hurts: Long-term effects of divorce on interindividual differences in personality development
Regula Lehmann, UZh
Correlated change of subjective and objective memory performance
Anna Mascherek, UZh
How do differential components contribute to prospective memory performance across the lifespan?
Florentina Mattli, UZh
How fast? How far? How long? Infants’ sensitivity to time, speed, and distance interrelations
Wenke Möhring, UZh
Exploring genetic predispositions for dopaminergic modulation of episodic memory aging
Goran Papenberg, MPIB
How do college students evaluate claims?
Fernando Rodriguez, UM
Infants’ tracking of non-cohesive physical entities
Simone Schaub, UZh
Genetic influences on age-related brain functional reorganization of implicit and explicit learning
Nicolas Schuck, HU
Subgroups of cyberbullying involvement and psychosocial indicators of youth behavior
Anja Schultze-Krumbholz, FU
The impact of labor market marginalization on social and cultural participation in Germany
Bettina Sonnenberg, DIW
Mama, Nana, and friends: The buffering effect of social relations on the stress–depression relationship in children
Alvin Thomas, UM

Fellow Posters

Age differences in the neural representation of working memory revealed by multi-voxel pattern analysis
Joshua Carp, UM
Longitudinal transactions between maternal distress and children’s externalizing problems: The role of effortful control
Daniel Ewon Choe, UM
Modeling inter- and intraindividual variability in intensive longitudinal data on student achievement
Fidan Gasimova, HU
How grandparenthood affects the transition to retirement
Dalit Jaeckel, University of Basel & UZh
Up one minute — down the next: affective variability from late childhood to early adulthood
Kathrin Klipker, MPIB
How to beat procrastination — it’s in the focus: The influence of goal focus on procrastination
Kathrin Krause, UZh
Children’s developing understanding of omniscience
Jonathan D. Lane, UM
A new treatment approach for depression in old age: Life-review intervention with computer supplements
Barbara Preschl, UZh
Acculturation of immigrant youth as a function of discrimination, family characteristics, and ethnicity
Anne Reitz, HU
Cortical phase synchronization and interbrain connectivity in guitar duets
Johanna Sänger, MPIB