Fall Academy 2014
Date: October 9–13, 2014
Location: MPI for Human Development, Berlin
For invited participants only
LECTURES
- Monitoring out of the corner of the eye: Expert teachers' eye movements and its relation to instructional quality
Kai S. Cortina, University of Michigan (UM)
- The interrelation between action perception and action production across the life span
Moritz Daum, University of Zurich (UZh)
- Increasing the power of developmental science to answer important questions
Pamela E. Davis-Kean, UM
- Misinterpreting eyewitness expressions of confidence
Chad Dodson, University of Virginia (UVa)
- Rethinking Autism
Vikram K. Jaswal, UVa
- Implicit theories of willpower: Effects on self-regulation and well-being
Veronika Job, University of Zurich (UZh)
- Cognitive development in adulthood: Growth under constraint
Ulman Lindenberger, MPI for Human Development
- Cognitive processes in decision making under risk
Thorsten Pachur, Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB)
- How mirrors make minds
Wolfgang Prinz, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
FELLOW PRESENTATIONS
- Investigating neuroplastic responses to stressful life events.
Oisin Butler, MPIB (Advisor: Simone Kühn)
- Changes in attachment orientation over a 59-year period: Determinants of change and the enduring effects of early experiences
William J. Chopik, UM (Advisor: Robin Edelstein)
- Dynamic modelling with the R package ctsem
Charles Driver, MPIB (Advisor: Ulman Lindenberger)
- Positivity bias and its affective, cognitive, and neural correlates
Miray Erbey, HU (Advisor: Arno Villringer)
- Memory-based decision making across the lifespan
Anika Josef, MPIB (Advisor: Ralph Hertwig)
- Goal focus as a predictor of activity choice and short-term mood when procrastinating
Oliver J. Kaftan, UZh (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
- The effects of educational placement on motivational outcomes of students with special educational needs
Aleksander Kocaj, IQB (Advisors: Petra Stanat & Hans Anand Pant)
- Does pregnancy change the brain and cognition? First results from the MotherBrain Study
Nina Lisofsky, MPIB (Advisor: Simone Kühn)
- Seeing in black and white: U.S. children's and adults' categorizations of multiracial targets
Steven O. Roberts, UM (Advisor: Susan Gelman)
- Age-related differences in boredom while waiting
Josua Schmeitzky, UZh (Advisor: Alexandra M. Freund)
FELLOW POSTERS
- Uncovering hidden equivalence between the intra- and the inter-individual level of analysis
Janne Adolf, MPIB (Advisor: Ulman Lindenberger)
- War traumatization and the family: A long-term perspective
Rahel Bachem, UZh (Advisor: Andreas Maercker)
- Planning and preparatory actions facilitate physical activity
Milena Barz, FU (Advisor: Ralf Schwarzer, Nina Knoll)
- Influence of dialect use on speech perception in children and adults: Evidence from a mismatch negativity (MMN) study
Jessica Bühler, UZh (Advisor: Urs Maurer)
- Games in context
Philipp Gerlach, MPIB (Advisor: Ralph Hertwig)
- Dynamic functional lateralization during processing of short and long scale intervals in speech signals: Developing a paradigm for investigating speech processing in older adults
Nathalie Giroud, UZh (Advisor: Martin Meyer)
- Pessimism, inflammation, oxidative stress and telomere length:When the glass begins to crack because it is half empty
Andreas Küffer, UZh (Advisor: Andreas Maercker)
- Paying (for) attention: Effects of distraction, time-on-task, and monetary incentive in younger and older adults
Ziyong Lin, UM (Advisor: Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz)
- Effect of mood states on information processing and reaction time in adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Alexander Schiller, UVa (Advisor: Gerald Clore)
- Early childhood education and care quality in Germany: Definition, variation, and regional predictors
Juliane Stahl, DIW (Advisors: C. Katharina Spieß, HU & Gert G. Wagner, DIW)
- Epigenetics of experience-dependent brain individualization
Sara Zocher, CRTD (Advisor: Gerd Kempermann)