Sessions
Understanding Individual Differences Through the Lens of Neuroscience: Learning, Reading and Dyslexia
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Sat
Dr. Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD, is Professor of Psychological Sciences, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, and Director of the Brain Imaging Research Center (BIRC) at the University of Connecticut (UConn). She also holds appointments at the UCSF Dyslexia Center, Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, and Haskins Laboratories.
She is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist interested in reading and dyslexia and factors associated with learning more broadly. She received research training at Harvard, UCLA, Caltech and Stanford, and held faculty positions at Stanford, UCSF and UConn.
Recent honors include awards from the IDA (2014), Learning & the Brain Foundation (2015), International Mind Brain & Education Society (IMBES; 2018), Society for Neuroscience (SfN; 2018) and Eye to Eye (2019), with many of these on science education and translation of neuroscience to benefit the public.
She has published over 140 articles, reviews, and book chapters, and has delivered over 210 keynotes, talks and workshops at venues such as local schools, International conferences, TEDx and the White House. Her work has been widely covered in the media such as The New York Times, NPR, CNN, the New Yorker, and Scientific American. She also serves on many boards at organizations such as the IDA, NCLD and Center for Childhood Creativity (CCC).