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)