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Course on the development of attention during early infancy

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 13.05.2004

Course on the development of attention during early infancy

The has organized a course on the development of attention in infants. The course will be given by John E. Richards, professor at the Dept. of Psychology at the University of South Carolina and will be held from 17 to 28 May from 9:30 to 12:30 h in the teaching faculty building at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital.

The course will address the latest advances in research on attention in children, particularly development and the changes in the brain that may form the basis of the same. Aimed at experts interested in this research field, the course will include the presentation of the most recent experimental work that addresses the relation between changes in the brain and attention in early infancy. In addition, Professor Richards will explain more questions related to theoretical models of cognitive neuroscience on attention and techniques to measure this capacity in newborns and infant, among other subjects.

John E. Richards graduated in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became interested in the psycho-physiology of attention. At present, he is the principal investigator of two research lines focussed on the development of continued attention in newborns from 2 to 6 months and in the set-up of a high density EEG/ERP laboratory for the study of developmental cognitive neuroscience.

The GRNC group belongs to the Dept of Basic Psychology at the Universitat de Barcelona and works in the field of neurocognition at the Parc Científic de Barcelona. Based in the teaching faculty building at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital, this group focuses its research on the processes involved in perception and the production of language, with special emphasis on the bilingual population.

For more information on the course: Tel 93.600.97.69 e-mail: