FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington is hosting a series titled “Mind, Brain and Education.”
The first presentation will be at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, at the North Dining Hall of UMF’s Olsen Student Center. The series continues to feature visiting professor Donna Coch, a faculty member in educational neuroscience at Dartmouth College. Her areas of expertise are developmental cognitive neuroscience; neuroscience, psychology and education; brain behavior in reading development; event-related potentials and the development of cognitive and linguistic process; and brain and behavior development.
Coch’s talks are free and open to the public, and are of special interest to educators.
The first presentation is titled “Brain Growth Time Lines and Plasticity.”
The second is “Exceptional Brains and How Learning Affects the Brain” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18.
The series is sponsored by the UMF College of Education, Health and Rehabilitation. More information may be obtained by calling series coordinator Ann Lynch at (207) 778-7425.
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