Today's Macnamara Lecture will be in **LEACOCK 132** NOT Rutherford Physics 112.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:42:26 +0000 From: "Anna Elizabeth Fago Weinberg, Dr" anna.weinberg@mcgill.ca To: "Melanie Dirks, Prof." melanie.dirks@mcgill.ca, "dept@psych.mcgill.ca" dept@psych.mcgill.ca Subject: Re: Macnamara Lecture THIS AFTERNOON, 3:30, Rutherford Physics 112
Hello All!
Due to an error made at the Class Scheduling Office, today's MacNamara lecture has been relocated to LEACOCK 132 (no longer at Rutherford Physics). The time has not changed.
We look forward to seeing you there!
All the best,
Anna
____________________________________________________________________________ From: Melanie Dirks, Prof. melanie.dirks@mcgill.ca Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 7:57:18 AM To: dept@psych.mcgill.ca Subject: Macnamara Lecture THIS AFTERNOON, 3:30, Rutherford Physics 112
Hi all,
A reminder that the Macnamara lecture will be taking place this afternoon at 3:30 in Rutherford Physics 112. Prof. MacNamara?s substantive research interests were in children?s language and cognitive development. This year, we are delighted to have Prof. Mark Sabbagh of Queen?s University join a long list of distinguished cognitive developmentalists as a MacNamara lecturer. The past editor of the journal Cognitive Development, Prof. Sabbagh will be discussing his ground breaking work on the development of preschoolers? understanding of the minds of others.
The lecture will take place in RPHYS 112. Free admission.
Wine and cheese reception will follow the lecture in 2001 McGill College, Room 461.
Title: Preschoolers' changing minds
Abstract: During the preschool years, children?s explicit understandings of the world go through dramatic changes. I will review the work that we have done investigating how neurobiological factors interact with particular kinds of experience to promote change in children?s naive psychological understandings, or their ?theory of mind.? These findings provide evidence that neurodevelopmental factors act as a rate-limiting factor on the extent to which preschoolers can use their experiences to drive conceptual change. However, I will also present some recent evidence from our lab suggesting that, at least with respect to theory of mind understandings, biology and experience might be even more tightly integrated. Specifically, some kinds of experience may induce biological changes that support theory of mind reasoning both transiently and in the long term. Together, these findings help us to understand how deep connections between biology and experience shape conceptual development during the preschool years.
About the speaker: https://www.queensu.ca/psychology/people/faculty/mark-sabbagh
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
Melanie
Melanie Dirks
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology and Centre for Research on Human Development
McGill University
2001 McGill College
Montréal, Quebec
H3A1G1
Telephone: 514-398-3856
E-mail: melanie.dirks@mcgill.ca
with a map! sorry for the last minute change.
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018, Kris Onishi wrote:
Today's Macnamara Lecture will be in **LEACOCK 132** NOT Rutherford Physics 112.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:42:26 +0000 From: "Anna Elizabeth Fago Weinberg, Dr" anna.weinberg@mcgill.ca To: "Melanie Dirks, Prof." melanie.dirks@mcgill.ca, "dept@psych.mcgill.ca" dept@psych.mcgill.ca Subject: Re: Macnamara Lecture THIS AFTERNOON, 3:30, Rutherford Physics 112
Hello All!
Due to an error made at the Class Scheduling Office, today's MacNamara lecture has been relocated to LEACOCK 132 (no longer at Rutherford Physics). The time has not changed.
We look forward to seeing you there!
All the best,
Anna
From: Melanie Dirks, Prof. melanie.dirks@mcgill.ca Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 7:57:18 AM To: dept@psych.mcgill.ca Subject: Macnamara Lecture THIS AFTERNOON, 3:30, Rutherford Physics 112
Hi all,
A reminder that the Macnamara lecture will be taking place this afternoon at 3:30 in Rutherford Physics 112. Prof. MacNamara?s substantive research interests were in children?s language and cognitive development. This year, we are delighted to have Prof. Mark Sabbagh of Queen?s University join a long list of distinguished cognitive developmentalists as a MacNamara lecturer. The past editor of the journal Cognitive Development, Prof. Sabbagh will be discussing his ground breaking work on the development of preschoolers? understanding of the minds of others.
The lecture will take place in RPHYS 112. Free admission.
Wine and cheese reception will follow the lecture in 2001 McGill College, Room 461.
Title: Preschoolers' changing minds
Abstract: During the preschool years, children?s explicit understandings of the world go through dramatic changes. I will review the work that we have done investigating how neurobiological factors interact with particular kinds of experience to promote change in children?s naive psychological understandings, or their ?theory of mind.? These findings provide evidence that neurodevelopmental factors act as a rate-limiting factor on the extent to which preschoolers can use their experiences to drive conceptual change. However, I will also present some recent evidence from our lab suggesting that, at least with respect to theory of mind understandings, biology and experience might be even more tightly integrated. Specifically, some kinds of experience may induce biological changes that support theory of mind reasoning both transiently and in the long term. Together, these findings help us to understand how deep connections between biology and experience shape conceptual development during the preschool years.
About the speaker: https://www.queensu.ca/psychology/people/faculty/mark-sabbagh
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
Melanie
Melanie Dirks
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology and Centre for Research on Human Development
McGill University
2001 McGill College
Montréal, Quebec
H3A1G1
Telephone: 514-398-3856
E-mail: melanie.dirks@mcgill.ca
with a map! sorry for the last minute change.
On Fri, 30 Nov 2018, Kris Onishi wrote:
Today's Macnamara Lecture will be in **LEACOCK 132** NOT Rutherford Physics 112.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:42:26 +0000 From: "Anna Elizabeth Fago Weinberg, Dr" anna.weinberg@mcgill.ca To: "Melanie Dirks, Prof." melanie.dirks@mcgill.ca, "dept@psych.mcgill.ca" dept@psych.mcgill.ca Subject: Re: Macnamara Lecture THIS AFTERNOON, 3:30, Rutherford Physics 112
Hello All!
Due to an error made at the Class Scheduling Office, today's MacNamara lecture has been relocated to LEACOCK 132 (no longer at Rutherford Physics). The time has not changed.
We look forward to seeing you there!
All the best,
Anna
From: Melanie Dirks, Prof. melanie.dirks@mcgill.ca Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 7:57:18 AM To: dept@psych.mcgill.ca Subject: Macnamara Lecture THIS AFTERNOON, 3:30, Rutherford Physics 112
Hi all,
A reminder that the Macnamara lecture will be taking place this afternoon at 3:30 in Rutherford Physics 112. Prof. MacNamara?s substantive research interests were in children?s language and cognitive development. This year, we are delighted to have Prof. Mark Sabbagh of Queen?s University join a long list of distinguished cognitive developmentalists as a MacNamara lecturer. The past editor of the journal Cognitive Development, Prof. Sabbagh will be discussing his ground breaking work on the development of preschoolers? understanding of the minds of others.
The lecture will take place in RPHYS 112. Free admission.
Wine and cheese reception will follow the lecture in 2001 McGill College, Room 461.
Title: Preschoolers' changing minds
Abstract: During the preschool years, children?s explicit understandings of the world go through dramatic changes. I will review the work that we have done investigating how neurobiological factors interact with particular kinds of experience to promote change in children?s naive psychological understandings, or their ?theory of mind.? These findings provide evidence that neurodevelopmental factors act as a rate-limiting factor on the extent to which preschoolers can use their experiences to drive conceptual change. However, I will also present some recent evidence from our lab suggesting that, at least with respect to theory of mind understandings, biology and experience might be even more tightly integrated. Specifically, some kinds of experience may induce biological changes that support theory of mind reasoning both transiently and in the long term. Together, these findings help us to understand how deep connections between biology and experience shape conceptual development during the preschool years.
About the speaker: https://www.queensu.ca/psychology/people/faculty/mark-sabbagh
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
Melanie
Melanie Dirks
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology and Centre for Research on Human Development
McGill University
2001 McGill College
Montréal, Quebec
H3A1G1
Telephone: 514-398-3856
E-mail: melanie.dirks@mcgill.ca
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Kris Onishi