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DESCRIPTION:Silvia A. Bunge presents: Reasoning Ability: Neural Mechanisms\
 , Development\, and Plasticity\n\nRegistration available here.\n\nSpeaker:
  Silvia A. Bunge\, PhD\n\nProfessor\, Department of Psychology & Helen Wil
 ls Neuroscience Institute\, University of California at Berkeley\, USA\n\n
 Abstract: Relational thinking\, or the process of identifying and integrat
 ing relations between mental representations\, is regularly invoked during
  reasoning. This mental capacity enables us to draw higher-order abstracti
 ons and generalize across situations and contexts\, and we have argued tha
 t it should be included in the pantheon of executive functions. In this ta
 lk\, I will briefly review our lab's work characterizing the roles of late
 ral prefrontal and parietal regions in relational thinking. I will then di
 scuss structural and functional predictors of individual differences and d
 evelopmental changes in reasoning.\n\nBio: Dr. Silvia Bunge is a Professor
  in the Department of Psychology and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institut
 e at the University of California\, Berkeley. She directs the Building Blo
 cks of Cognition Laboratory\, which draws from the fields of cognitive neu
 roscience\, developmental psychology\, and education research. Her lab stu
 dies the cognitive and neural processes that support reasoning\, memory\, 
 and goal-directed behavior in humans. The lab also studies how these proce
 sses mature over childhood and adolescence\, and how they are shaped by ed
 ucation and demographic factors – for better and for worse. Professor Bung
 e seeks to extend her research to understand individual differences and de
 velopmental change in reasoning about real-world phenomena in daily life\,
  as well as in the context of STEM education. To investigate these phenome
 na\, the lab leverages behavioral\, structural and functional brain imagin
 g\, and eyetracking methods\, and experimental\, cross-sectional\, and lon
 gitudinal designs.\n\n\nThe Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind (VBM) Seminar S
 eries will advance the vision of Dr. William Feindel (1918–2014)\, Former 
 Director of the Neuro (1972–1984)\, to constantly bridge the clinical and 
 research realms. The talks will highlight the latest advances and discover
 ies in neuropsychology\, cognitive neuroscience\, and neuroimaging.\n\nSpe
 akers will include scientists from across The Neuro\, as well as colleague
 s and collaborators locally and from around the world. The series is inten
 ded to provide a virtual forum for scientists and trainees to continue to 
 foster interdisciplinary exchanges on the mechanisms\, diagnosis and treat
 ment of brain and cognitive disorders.\n
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SUMMARY:Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind Lecture Series: Reasoning Ability: N
 eural Mechanisms\, Development\, and Plasticity
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