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35th Minnesota Symposium on Child Psychology
Meeting the Challenge of Translational Research
in Developmental Psychology
October 11-13, 2007
McNamara Alumni Center, A. I. Johnson Room
University of Minnesota
For the 2007 Symposium, we plan to focus on the push towards
multidisciplinary, multi-level, integrative, and translational research
and the challenges that the push for this mode of research creates
for us as researchers, teachers, and students of our science. Part
of our working thesis is that cutting-edge research in child development
and developmental psychopathology needs to be grounded in a profound
understanding of ‘what’ develops. Both basic and multidisciplinary
research contributes to our understanding of development and one
the field will suffer if one is given priority over the other. Accordingly,
in this symposium we will reflect on how the growing emphasis on
multidisciplinary, integrative and translational research is changing
the field, where it is leading us, what we are gaining and what
might be being “lost in translation.”
Our speakers and topics will include:
- Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin.
“Learning is Not a Four Letter Word: Changing
conceptualizations of infant language acquisition”
- Andrew N. Meltzoff, University of Washington.
“Roots of Social Cognition: The “Like Me” Hypothesis”
- Peter Mundy, M.I.N.D. Institute, UC Davis.
“Attention, Joint Attention and Social Cognition: Lessons
learned from research on autism”
- Michael Posner, University of
Oregon.
“The Origins of Self Regulation”
- Seth Pollak, University of Wisconsin.
“The Emergence of Emotion Regulation: Experience,
Development, and Biology”
- Daniel Shaw, University of Pittsburgh.
“Translational Research in the Development and Prevention of
Early Conduct Problems: Model Building and Challenges”
- Elena Grigorenko, Yale University.
“Genetic Sciences for Developmentalists: Unified Studies of
Individual Differences”
Symposium dates and times
- October 11: 8:30 - 4:30
- October 12: 8:30 - 4:30
- October 13: 8:30 - 12:00
35th Minnesota Symposium Program
Information
Directions and parking information can be obtained on the
McNamara
Alumni Center Web site.
Check back for more details as they develop.
All lectures are free and open to the public!
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!
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