From: Andrea Goldin <apgoldin(a)gmail.com>
Date: 18 August 2011 8:37:42 pm CEST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Student Applications deadline extended - LASchool for Education, Cognitive and
Neural Sciences
Dear collegues,
Sorry for cross-posting. Please forward this invitation to apply to the LAschool in
Patagonia to graduate students and postdocs.
Best wishes,
Andrea Goldin, PhD Student
Laboratorio de Neurociencia Integrativa, FCEyN,
Universidad de Buenos Aires
The 2nd Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences
Funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation
Calafate, Patagonia Argentina
5-16 March, 2012
http://www.laschool4education.com/
Faculty:
Andrea Moro, Bruce McCandliss, Constance Scharff, David Klahr, David Yaron, Diego
Golombek, Elizabeth Brannon, Elizabeth Spelke, Gergely Csibra, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz,
Hal Pashler, Helen Neville, Henry "Roddy" Roediger III, Jacques Mehler, Jan
Born, John Bruer, Jorge Moll, Joshua Tenenbaum, Kathleen McDermott, Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek,
Laura Shulz, Manuel Carreiras, Marcela Peña, Mariano Sigman, Marina Nespor, Miguel
Brechner Frey, Mike Shadlen, Mitchell Nathan, Nora Newcombe, Pierre Pica, Rebecca Saxe,
Sidarta Ribeiro, Silvia Bunge, Stanislas Dehaene, Stella Vosniadou, Susan Fitzpatrick,
Usha Goswami
Candidates should register at
http://www.laschool4education.com. Applications will remain
open until September 15, 2011.
The school will be held in Calafate, one of the most beautiful places in Patagonia,
Argentina,
http://www.hotelaltocalafate.com.ar. The goal of our School is to critically
examine research findings that are potentially relevant to the development and
implementation of effective educational practices. We hope that the School will foster a
new generation of rigorous researchers with broad knowledge in neuroscience, able to
operate at the interface between education and science. The school will cover all travel,
board and lodging expenses for the selected candidates.
Follow us on twitter: @LASchool4Edu