Assembly of the neocortex
The symposium will start with Prof Song-Hai Shi who will present “Assembly of the neocortex”. Then, Dr Lynette Lim will talk about “Shared and Unique Developmental Trajectories of Cortical Inhibitory Neurons”. Dr Alfredo Molina will deal with the “Tuneable progenitor cells to build the cerebral cortex”, and Prof Tomasz Nowakowski will present “Charting the molecular 'protomap' of the human cerebral cortex using single cell genomic”.
Using Developmental Trajectories to Understand Change in Children’s Analogical Reasoning
Analogical reasoning is a complex ‘high-level’ cognitive process characterised by making inferences based on analogical comparisons. As with other high-level processes, development takes place over a protracted time period and believed to result from changes in multiple ‘lower-level’ systems. In the case of analogical reasoning, changes in systems responsible for conceptual knowledge, task knowledge, inhibition, and working memory have all been causally implicated in development. Whilst there is evidence that each of these systems contributes to development, what the relative contribution of each across development is, and how they interact with each, remain largely unanswered questions. In this presentation, I will describe how cross-sectional trajectory analysis can be used as a complementary method to shed light on these questions.