The National Academy of Sciences, along with the Institute of Digital Media and Child Development, are launching a global convening of researchers, pediatricians, child psychologists, and neuroscientists who are investigating the impact of technology and media use on childrens' brains and behavior. 

IAN's Dr Uncapher is a co-organizer and will chair the working group day of the conference. 
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White papers will be published in an upcoming issue of Pediatrics, and select primary papers and reviews will be published in upcoming issues of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.   

Dr Uncapher (Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF) joins Ben Riley (ED of Deans for Impact), Dr Dan Willingham (Professor of Psychology, U of Virginia) and dean Greg Anderson (Temple University) for the national launch of the Science of Learning report from Deans for Impact at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. 

The report summarizes insights from the Science of Learning into practical implications for teaching and learning in the classroom. 

Watch video here. More information on the Science of Learning report here.

IAN's Dr. Kevin Weiner will present one of two keynotes to the Perceptual Expertise Network, at the PEN XXIX conference, Dec 4th-6th. 

Dr. Anthony Wagner of Stanford University spoke in the National Bar Association's 89th annual convention about work from his lab that is positioned at the intersection of law and neuroscience. This work included findings from Dr. Melina Uncapher on how our brains respond differently to faces from our own race vs. other races, and how that may affect memory. The findings have implications for eyewitness memory that includes other-race faces.