<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 16px; "><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div align="CENTER"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><font size="5"><span style="font-size: 16pt; "><hr align="CENTER" size="3" width="95%">The Center for Human Development Presents<br></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; "><br></span></font></font><font size="6"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 24pt; "><b>Joan Stiles<br></b></span></font></font><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman"><b><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><i>UCSD</i></span></font></b></font></div><div align="CENTER"><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman"><b><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 14pt; "><i>Department of Cognitive Science<br></i></span></font></b></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br><b>Friday, October 10th <br></b></span><b><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; ">12-1pm (discussion 1-1:50pm)<br>room 003 in the Cognitive Science Building</span></font></b></font></div><div align="CENTER"><br></div><div align="CENTER"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div align="CENTER"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><b><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; font-weight: normal; ">“Developing Deep Cortical Hierarchies"</span><br><br></span></font></b></font></div><div align="CENTER" style="font-size: 10px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px; font-size: 12px; ">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 <i>interaction</i> 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, <i>and</i> 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 <i>versus</i>nurture 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.</span></b></font></div><div align="CENTER"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><b><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><br></span></font><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><u>Everyone is welcome. <br></u></span></b><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><br><b>Speaker list</b> and <b>papers</b> are available at <a href="http://chd.ucsd.edu/Main_Schedule.htm">http://chd.ucsd.edu/Main_Schedule.htm</a> <br><br>For any<b> questions </b>about the seminar<b> contact Katie </b>at kgwagner<a href="x-msg://479/jlparris@psy.ucsd.edu">@psy.ucsd.edu</a></span></font></font></div><div><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><font size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><br> <br><hr align="CENTER" size="3" width="95%"><br></span></font></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt; "></span></font></div><div align="CENTER"><font size="1"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 9pt; "><br>If you are interested in receiving the weekly announcements for the <br>Center for Human Development talks you should add your email address <br>(or if you are not interested you can remove it) to the CHD Seminars list. <br><br>To add or remove, visit<br><font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="http://mailman.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/chdseminar-l">http://mailman.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/chdseminar-l</a><br></u></font></span></font></font><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 11pt; "><br><br></span></font></div></div></span></div><br></span></body></html>