Speaker Profile

Fumiko Hoeft, MD, PhD

Professor of Psychological Sciences; Director, Brain Imaging Research Center, University of Connecticut; Director, Laboratory for Learning Engineering and Neural Systems (brainLENS.org) located at University of Connecticut and the University of California, San Francisco; Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Weill Institute for Neurosciences and Dyslexia Center, University of California, San Francisco; Senior Scientist & Senior Advisor, Haskins Laboratories; Co-Director of Haskins L2 (Language & Literacy) Global Innovation Hub, Yale University; Recipient of the 2015 Transforming Education through Neuroscience Award from Learning & the Brain Foundation; Co-Author, "Direct and Indirect Contributions of Executive Function to Word Decoding and Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten” (2019, Learning & Individual Differences), “Impact of Mentoring on Socio芒鈧怑motional and Mental Health Outcomes of Youth with Learning Disabilities and Attention芒鈧怐eficit Hyperactivity Disorder” (2019, Child and Adolescent Mental Health), and “Brain Basis of Cognitive Resilience: Prefrontal Cortex Predicts Better Reading Comprehension in Relation to Decoding” (2018, PloS One)

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Past Talks

Social-Emotional Brains in Schools
Raising Resilience, Restoring Relationships,
and Rebuilding Self-Regulation During COVID-19
Virtual Conference
November 07-08, 2020
The Science of Innovation
Teaching Students to Think, Create,
Innovate, Imagine, and Inspire
The Fairmont San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
February 15-17, 2018
The Science of How We Learn
Engaging Memory, Motivation, Mindsets, Making and Mastery
Held at the historic Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, CA
February 17-19, 2017

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