Bunge Lab http://bungelab.berkeley.edu Building Blocks of Cognition Thu, 17 May 2012 00:40:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Milestones http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/milestones/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/milestones/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 18:45:51 +0000 sbunge http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/?p=625 Continue reading →]]> Change is in the air.

Today our 5th-year Neuroscience student Allyson Mackey gives her public Ph.D. thesis talk, titled “Reasoning training alters brain structure and function”. This fall she will head to Prof. John Gabrieli’s lab at MIT for a postdoc.

Kirstie Whitaker, also a 5th-year Neuroscience student, will be giving her thesis talk on August 17th, and then headed back to the U.K. for a postdoc.

Maia Barrow is coming on board on June 1st as a new full-time research assistant in the lab, followed by Belén Guerra, an incoming graduate student in Psychology.

 

]]> http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/milestones/feed/ 0 Blast from the past! http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/blast-from-the-past/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/blast-from-the-past/#comments Sun, 06 May 2012 20:55:49 +0000 sbunge http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/?p=613 Continue reading →]]>

Celebrating the lab’s 1-year anniversary, back in 2004 at UC Davis! From the left, Carter Wendelken (now our senior research scientist), Jesse Edelstein (grad student at UC Merced), Eveline Crone (full professor in the Netherlands), Ryan Honomichl (professor at a liberal arts college in Ohio), Sarah Donohue (currently at Duke and gearing up for a postdoc in Germany), and Mike Souza (professor at the University of British Columbia). We will have to do something big next summer for our 10th anniversary. Even bigger than the surprise chocolate cake below…

]]> http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/blast-from-the-past/feed/ 0 NYT Magazine: Can You Make Yourself Smarter? http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/nyt-magazine-can-you-make-yourself-smarter/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/nyt-magazine-can-you-make-yourself-smarter/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2012 21:06:18 +0000 sbunge http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/?p=579 Can You Make Yourself Smarter_ – NYTimes

]]> http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/nyt-magazine-can-you-make-yourself-smarter/feed/ 0 Jazz http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/jazz/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/jazz/#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 04:38:55 +0000 sbunge http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/?p=572 Continue reading →]]> One of our undergrad research assistants, Forrest Riege, is a budding jazz musician. His group, named “Frank Martin’s Advanced Combo”, has played twice at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley over the last few months. Silvia is a big fan of their work… and hopes that Forrest will remember the lab when he becomes famous.

]]> http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/jazz/feed/ 0 Forbes Magazine opinion piece on neuroscience & education http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/article-in-forbes/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/article-in-forbes/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:30:02 +0000 sbunge http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/?p=527 Continue reading →]]> This article in Forbes was inspired in part by as-yet-unpublished data from our lab on the neural changes associated with 3 months of reasoning training, spearheaded by senior grad student Allyson Mackey. Allyson, Alison, and Kirstie are all hard at work writing up exciting findings from this project.

]]> http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/article-in-forbes/feed/ 0 Allyson and Silvia get into the heads of schoolchildren http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/allyson-and-silvias-research-in-the-news/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/allyson-and-silvias-research-in-the-news/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:39:40 +0000 lisa http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/?p=501 New brain imaging technology may pave the way for a new science to understand how children think and learn. It could eventually help educators and revolutionize classrooms.

Click here for the article.

]]> http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/allyson-and-silvias-research-in-the-news/feed/ 0 Heading to Patagonia! http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/silvia-is-heading-to-patagonia/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/silvia-is-heading-to-patagonia/#comments Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:59:09 +0000 sbunge http://devcogneuro.net/?p=449 Continue reading →]]> This week, Silvia will give a talk in Buenos Aires and then head to Patagonia to participate in the 2nd Latin American School for Education, Neural and Cognitive Sciences, funded by the James S. McDonnell Foundation. For announcements about future meetings, check the School’s website.

What makes this trip even more special is that Silvia’s family is from Argentina. This will be her first visit in 17 years. On top of that, the site of this year’s School is hard to beat…

 

]]> http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/silvia-is-heading-to-patagonia/feed/ 0 Chloe receives grad student fellowship http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/chloe-receives-grad-student-fellowship/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/chloe-receives-grad-student-fellowship/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:00:29 +0000 sbunge http://devcogneuro.net/?p=430 First-year grad student Chloe Green has been accepted as a fellow in the Research in Cognition and Mathematics Education program at UC Berkeley. This program will cover her tuition and stipend for the next 2-3 years. Congrats, Chloe!

]]> http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/chloe-receives-grad-student-fellowship/feed/ 0 Intro to E-book on the Developing Human Brain http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/e-book-on-the-developing-human-brain-forthcoming/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/e-book-on-the-developing-human-brain-forthcoming/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:22:29 +0000 sbunge http://devcogneuro.net/?p=355 Frontiers, an online publisher, will be publishing an E-book on the Developing Human Brain. Here is the introduction: PDF

]]> http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/e-book-on-the-developing-human-brain-forthcoming/feed/ 0 Special issue on Neuroscience & Education http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/special-issue-on-neuroscience-education/ http://bungelab.berkeley.edu/special-issue-on-neuroscience-education/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:14:37 +0000 sbunge http://devcogneuro.net/?p=352 Continue reading →]]> Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Silvia Bunge are thrilled to announce the publication of a special issue of the new journal Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, focused on the intersection between neuroscience and education. The papers will be open access for one year, thanks to a donation from the Dana Foundation.

PDF of the introduction to the special issue 

Click here and scroll down to to access the full Special Issue on Neuroscience and Education.

 

 

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