[lingtalks] CHD Seminar: FRIDAY - Joan Stiles

[Katie Wagner]

The Center for Human Development Presents

Joan Stiles
UCSD
Department of Cognitive Science

Friday, October 10th
12-1pm (discussion 1-1:50pm)
room 003 in the Cognitive Science Building


“Developing Deep Cortical Hierarchies"

Over the past three decades, developmental neurobiologists have made  
tremendous progress in defining basic principles of brain development.  
This work has changed the way we think about how brains develop.  
Thirty years ago, the dominant model was strongly deterministic. The  
relationship between brain and behavioral development was viewed as  
unidirectional; that is, brain maturation enables behavioral  
development. The advent of modern neurobiological methods has provided  
overwhelming evidence that it is the interaction of genetic factors  
and the experience of the individual that guides and directs brain  
development. Brains do not develop normally in the absence of critical  
genetic signaling, and they do not develop normally in the absence of  
essential environmental input. The fundamental facts about brain  
development should be of critical importance to neuropsychologists  
trying to understand the relationship between brain and behavioral  
development. However, the underlying assumptions of most contemporary  
psychological models reflect largely outdated ideas about how the  
biological system develops and what it means for something to be  
innate. Thus, contemporary models of brain development challenge the  
foundational constructs of the nature versusnurture formulation in  
psychology. The key to understanding the origins and emergence of both  
the brain and behavior lies in understanding how inherited and  
environmental factors are engaged in the dynamic and interactive  
processes that define and direct development of the neurobehavioral  
system.

Everyone is welcome.

Speaker list and papers are available at http://chd.ucsd.edu/Main_Schedule.htm

For any questions about the seminar contact Katie at kgwagner at psy.ucsd.edu




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