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Infant Minds to Childhood Networks: Charting Developmental Path in Flux 2024
We can’t wait for #Flux2024! To help us gear up for the conference, we're lucky to have received details from many of our incredible speakers about their upcoming presentations. Below is a preview of one symposium focused on the developmental trajectory of...
#Flux2024 Symposium Highlights the Exciting Potential of Precision Imaging
We can’t wait for #Flux2024 in Baltimore! To help share our excitement, we have been fortunate to interview some of the chairs of the upcoming symposia. Below, Dr. Arielle Keller gives us some early insight into what to expect from her chaired symposium on precision...
The Science of Learning Symposium: Nature and Nurture Contributions to Variation in Learning: Insights from Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Funded by the Jacobs Foundation. Chair: Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus, PhD
What is your symposium about? The Science of Learning symposium supported by the Jacobs Foundation is always an exciting event at the Flux meeting. For many years, the Foundation has supported these symposia in an attempt to better understand the neurobiological...
A FABBS-ulous congratulations to Dr. Dylan Gee!
The Flux Society extends a heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Dylan Gee, who was recently awarded an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS)! As a member of the scientific society of FABBS, Flux nominated...
An interview by Dr Rachel Romeo, Flux’s 2024 New Investigator Awardee/ Dr Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus on behalf of the Flux’s Communication Committee
Rachel Romeo, PhD, CCC-SLP is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist and licensed speech-language pathologist broadly interested in how children’s early experiences, both favourable and adverse, influence their neural, cognitive, and academic development, with a...
Felicia Hardi Wins Dissertation Award: Clinical Insights Balance Cutting-Edge Research
Flux Congress offers its warmest congratulations to Dissertation Award Winner, Felicia Hardi! Dr. Hardi’s dissertation focuses on the longitudinal association between adverse experiences, structural and functional networks, and mental health. In her dissertation, Dr....
2024 Flux Trainee Committee Initiatives
Trainee lunch Do you want to get to know fellow students and early career researchers? Join our trainee lunch gathering on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at 12:00 pm! The lunch will take place at the Lebanese Taverna, just a short 2-minute walk from the conference...
Mind Over Matter: Laura Pritschet Unveils Brainy Insights into Women’s Health
Laura Pritschet, a current post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania, is a strong advocate for the importance of women’s health and exploring it via brain research. Her interest in women-centered neuroscience began through a combination of lived experiences, research...
Autonomy, Agency & the People Around Us: An Interview with Eric Feczko, Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota
Eric Feczko’s fascination with science began from a very young age. “I kind of knew that I was different from other people,” he admitted. He had had conversations with his father about his autism when he was around 12 or 13 years of age, after his diagnosis came in....
Edgy Cognitive Neuroscience, Casual Mentorship, and Dismantling Unjust Systems: A Conversation with Linda Spear Award Winner Lucina Uddin
Congratulations to Dr. Lucina Uddin, this year’s winner of the Flux Society’s Linda Spear Mid-Career Award! This award recognizes Dr. Uddin’s outstanding scientific contributions and social impact on our community. In addition to her tremendous scientific...
Reproducibility, Open Science, and Big Data
This blog post contains an overview of useful developmental cognitive neuroscience resources on the topic of replication, reproducibility, data sharing, and big data.
Executive functions in the brain, development and social context: Early contributions by neuroscientist, Adele Diamond
A seminal moment in my academic career was in the late 1980s while attending one of my first scientific meetings as a graduate student and hearing a fascinating talk by a female neuroscientist, Adele Diamond. She was describing prefrontal cognitive abilities in human...
“Searching For Fun” with Huttenlocher Award Winner Dr. Bea Luna
The Flux Society extends an enthusiastic congratulations to Dr. Bea Luna, this year’s winner of the Huttenlocher Award, which celebrates an outstanding researcher in developmental cognitive neuroscience who inspires future generations of researchers. As anyone who has...
One-on-One Interview with Dr. Virginia Salo
Dr. Salo is a Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)/American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Federal Executive Branch Policy Fellow in the Child Development and Behavior Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child...
One-on-One Interview with Divyangana Rakesh (July 2022)
Congratulations to Divyangana Rakesh, winner of the 2022 Flux Dissertation Award! Dr. Rakesh recently completed her PhD in Neuroscience at the Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centreat the University of Melbourne, where she conducted developmental cognitive neuroscience...
One-on-One Interview with Jennifer Silvers (July 2022)
Dr. Jennifer Silvers – the 2022 Flux winner of the Young Investigator Award! Please join us in congratulating our winner of the 2022 Young Investigator Award, Dr. Jennifer Silvers! This award, supported by the Kennedy Krieger Institute, recognizes Dr. Silvers’...
One-on-One Interview with Nim Tottenham (July 2022)
Dr. Nim Tottenham – the 2022 Flux winner of the inaugural Linda Spear Mid-Career Award. Congratulations to Dr. Nim Tottenham, this year’s winner of the Linda Spear Mid-Career Award recognizing her outstanding contributions in developmental neuroscience! Dr. Tottenham...
One-on-One Interview with Adele Diamond (June 2022)
Dr. Adele Diamond- the 2022 Flux winner of the Huttenlocher Award! This award celebrates an outstanding researcher in developmental cognitive neuroscience who inspires future generations of researchers. Dr. Diamond was pivotal in the creation of the field of...