Spring Academy 2014
Date: April 28 – May 2, 2014
Locations: University of Virginia, Charlottesville
LIFE OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARD LECTURE
FACULTY LECTURES
- Understanding the Development of Youth Antisocial Behavior: Perspectives From Developmental Psychopathology and Neurogenetics
Luke Hyde, University of Michigan - Ergodicity in Parameters and Models
Timo von Oertzen, University of Virginia - Improving Impacts of Classrooms: Professional Development and Classroom Observation
Robert Pianta, University of Virginia - Transition into Retirement: Gain or Loss?
Clemens Tesch-Römer, German Center of Gerontology - Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from the District of Columbia’s IMPACT system
James Wyckoff, University of Virginia - Characterizing Individual Variability in Neural Circuitry Underlying Social Perception
James P. Morris, University of Virginia
FELLOW PRESENTATIONS
FELLOW POSTERS
- Investigating neuroplastic responses to stressful life events
Oisin Butler, MPI for Human Development - Neurocognitive correlates of the positivity effect
Miray Erbey, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Functional neural plasticity during speech processing as a function of age and its relation to cortical thickness and surface
Nathalie Giroud, University of Zurich - Age differences in decisions from memory: The role of associative and strategic components
Anika Josef, MPI for Human Development - Socioeconomic status as a moderator of improvements in executive function following cognitive training in adolescents
Benjamin Katz, University of Michigan - Academic self-concept of primary students with special educational needs in regular and special schools
Alexander Kocaj, Institut für Qualitätsentwicklung im Bildungssystem (IQB) - PTSD status, childhood trauma, and its association with telomere length in a sample of elderly Swiss indentured child labors: Preliminary results
Andreas Küffer, University of Zurich - Evidence from hormone-induced structural brain plasticity in three cases
Nina Lisofsky, MPI for Human Development - Is bad really stronger than good? Cross-cultural comparison of major life changes
Judith Mangelsdorf, Freie Universität Berlin - Effect of mood states on information processing and reaction time in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
Alexander Schiller, University of Virginia - The relationship between the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex during rest and amygdala habituation in adolescents with autism spectrum disorders
Francisco Velasquez, University of Michigan