Academic and Research Communication with Prof. Adam Green

On March 8th to 11th, 2019, Prof.Adam Green from Georgetown University visited the faculty of psychology ofSouthwest University, and gave a lecture titled ‘Neurocognitive Effects ofReal-World Spatial STEM Education on Relational Reasoning’. A substantial gapremains between the way we study learning in the cognitive neuroscience lab andthe way we study learning where we care about it most: in the real-worldclassroom. Closing this gap requires treating an in-school curriculum as theintervention and measuring longitudinal neural and cognitive changes associatedwith what is being taught. To address this gap, Adam designed a longitudinalstudy of the effects of a spatially-focused STEM curriculum on the activity andconnectivity of “spatial” brain regions and on near, intermediate, and fartransfer tasks in a sample of 191 behavioral (61 MRI) public high schoolstudent participants.