Answers to the Developmental Cog Neuro Quiz (and potential policy implications)

The "Guess the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Speaker" contest yielded two correct guesses (both Martha Farah for #4) and six incorrect guesses. Basically, the entire exercise was an excuse to feature the eminently quotable soundbytes of Dr. Martha Farah. A leader in the growing field of neuroethics, she directs the Center for Neuroscience & Society at the University of Pennsylvania.But all our speakers are winners really... The symposium was a smashing success.Invited Symposium Session 1The Broader Applicability of Insights from Developmental Cognitive NeuroscienceChair: Silvia Bunge, UC BerkeleySpeakers: John D. E. Gabrieli, Margaret Sheridan, Martha J. Farah, Helen J. NevilleFinally, here are the answers....... (1) Martha Farah - “I am not a neurochauvinist”(2) Sylvia Bunge - “U.S. Prison Experiment”(3) Helen Neville - “evidence-based politics”(4) Martha Farah - “IMHO still premature to dictate policy based on neuro” (5) Martha Farah - “Here's where going ‘neuro’ earns its keep”(6) Martha Farah - ‘descriptive’ often considered derogatory in science(7) John Gabrieli - SCHOOLS MATTER!Dr. Gabrieli's soundbyte was in the context of discussing charter schools, which have a positive impact on standardized test scores (crystallized intelligence) but no effect on fluid intelligence. Another large-scale study identified structural differences in the brains of pre-literate kindergartners that predicted later reading ability. The CNS 2014 Blog c...
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