The Mind of a Child

Saturday, April 18, 2015
2:30-4:30 pm
Past Event

How does a one-year-old understand the world? A three-year-old? A five-year-old? How does the mental functioning of very young children differ from that of older children and of adults? Recognizing the ways in which children conceptualize the world, remember their experiences, and modulate emotions is crucial in providing both normally developing children and children with... read more! »
How does a one-year-old understand the world? A three-year-old? A five-year-old? How does the mental functioning of very young children differ from that of older children and of adults? Recognizing the ways in which children conceptualize the world, remember their experiences, and modulate emotions is crucial in providing both normally developing children and children with developmental disorders, like autism, with optimum care throughout their formative years. What can adults learn about what it’s like to be a child?

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This is a past event that happened on Saturday, April 18, 2015 2:30-4:30 pm.

Participants

Patricia Bauer

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology, Emory University

Patricia J. Bauer is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Psychology at Emory University. She is a developmental scientists whose primary interests are in autobiographical or personal memory and its development. She earned her PhD from Miami University after which she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. She served on the... read more! »

Paul Harris

Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard

Paul Harris is a developmental psychologist with interests in the development of cognition, emotion and imagination. After studying psychology at Sussex and Oxford, he taught at the University of Lancaster, the Free University of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics. In 1980, he moved to Oxford where he became Professor of Developmental Psychology and... read more! »

Regina Pally

Co-Founder and Assistant Director, Center for Reflective Parenting

Regina Pally is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, in private practice for over  35 years, with a special interest in parents and couples. For 25 years she has studied and written about neuroscience for mental health professionals and the lay public. Most recently she dedicated herself to working in the community to improve the lives of children... read more! »

Colin Phillips

Professor of Linguistics & Distinguished Scholar-Teacher, University of Maryland; Director, Maryland Language Science Center; Associate Director, Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program

Colin Phillips combines linguistics, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience to understand how language is mentally and neurally encoded, and how children learn language so effortlessly. In the same way that vision scientists study optical illusions in order to reveal the inner workings of the visual system, Phillips and his team study linguistic illusions to reveal how... read more! »

Steven Wein

Supervising Child and Adolescent Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Steven Wein has served at NYPSI as a Supervising Child and Adolescent Analyst since 1993, Training and Supervising Analyst since 1996, and Associate Dean for Child Analysis from 2010 to 2016. He is a member of the Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies. He is a Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and of the... read more! »

Paul Zelinsky

Children’s book illustrator and author

Paul O. Zelinsky is a children’s book illustrator and writer whose books have won wide acclaim and many awards, including the Caldecott Medal for his retelling of Rapunzel, and three Caldecott Honors, for Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Swamp Angel. He is known for the variety of style and genre in his books, rendering him... read more! »