New Summit Speakers from Lumosity, ideas42, UCSD

The Agenda of the 2013 Sharp­Brains Vir­tual Sum­mit is looking more fascinating by the day.  We’re glad to announce three more excel­lent speak­ers: Dr. Daniel Stern­berg leads the analy­sis of Lumosity’s data­base of human cog­ni­tive per­for­mance, which recently resulted in the pub­li­ca­tion of the study “The largest human cog­ni­tive per­for­mance dataset reveals insights into the effects of lifestyle fac­tors and aging” in Fron­tiers in Human Neu­ro­science. Daniel received his Ph.D. in Cog­ni­tive Psy­chol­ogy from Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity, where he stud­ied the mech­a­nisms under­ly­ing how we learn new skills and rea­son about the world around us using by com­bin­ing behav­ioral exper­i­ments with com­pu­ta­tional learn­ing mod­els. As the Data Sci­en­tist on Lumosity’s R&D team, he is explor­ing the largest data­base of human cog­ni­tive per­for­mance in order to fig­ure out the most effec­tive ways to enhance our cog­ni­tive abilities. Josh Wright is a Man­ag­ing Direc­tor and Act­ing Exec­u­tive Direc­tor at ideas42, using behav­ioral eco­nom­ics to do good with a focus on finan­cial ser­vices, eco­nomic mobil­ity, health­care, and strat­egy. Josh has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in the for-profit, non-profit, and pub­lic sec­tors. Imme­di­ately prior to join­ing ideas42, Josh headed up the Office of Finan­cial Edu­ca­tion and Finan­cial Access at the United States De...
Source: SharpBrains - Category: Neurologists Authors: Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology behav­ioral eco­nom­ics bio­engi­neer­ing cog­ni­tive per­for­mance Daniel Stern­berg data­base ideas42 Josh Wright Lumosity Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity Todd P. Cole­ma Source Type: blogs