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SUMMARY:Learning to learn: lessons from action video games - Professor Dap
 hne Bavelier\, University of Geneva
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:BIO -\n\nDaphne Bavelier is an international expert on how hum
 ans learn. In particular\, she studies how the brain adapts to changes in 
 experience\, either by nature - for example\, deafness - or by training - 
 for example\, playing video games. She now directs a Cognitive Neuroscienc
 e research team at the University of Geneva\, Switzerland. Initially train
 ed in Biology at the 'Ecole Normale Superieure de Paris'\, she then receiv
 ed a PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from MIT and trained in human bra
 in plasticity at the Salk Institute.  Her work shows that playing fast-pac
 ed\, action-packed entertainment video games typically thought to be mind-
 numbing actually benefits several aspects of behavior.  Exploiting this co
 unter-intuitive finding\, her lab now investigates how new media\, such as
  video games\, can be leveraged to foster learning and brain plasticity. 
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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