Synesthesia: A Window into Brain Development

Date and Time

October 23, 2015
09:00AM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Daphne Maurer, PhD (McMaster University)
What synesthesia can teach us about development

David Lewkowicz, PhD (Northeastern University)
The development of multisensory perception in human infancy & underlying mechanisms of change

Edward Hubbard, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Developing and decoding synesthesia

Takao Hensch, PhD (Harvard University)
Pruning circuits through early experience

Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD (University of Cambridge)
Autism & Synesthesia: Do prenatal sex steroids alter neural connectivity in both?

David Eagleman, PhD (Baylor College of Medicine)
New insights from large-scale analysis of colored-sequence synesthetes

Discussion Panel, also featuring: Caroline Robertson, PhD (Harvard) Ella Striem-Amit, PhD (Harvard)

Please register in advance: www.conte.harvard.edu