Summer School on Neuropsychology Has Started

14:25, August 9, 2018

The Summer School gathered young scientists from different countries

The Summer School on Neuropsychology dedicated to the memory of Alexander Luria started yesterday at Ural Federal University. It gathered 28 young scientists from China, Iran, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Greece, Portugal, Indonesia.

The lecturers will tell modern ideas about the brain and neurocognitive development of children and adolescents. The participants will visit lectures and workshops to study the child's readiness for school, help children with various disorders (for example, speech, autistic spectrum disorders, attention deficit disorder), neurotechnology for assimilating foreign languages ​​and the phenomenon of bilingualism, as well as neuropsychological aspects of child-parent relations.

‘A true specialist must be a broad specialist; therefore Luriev's neuropsychology is significant because it includes various methods and approaches taken not only from psychology but also from other sciences. It is possible and necessary to create new approaches, the real science has never been rigid and stable, and a new generation must develop it,’ says Janna Glozman, the professor of Moscow State University, the scientific director of the school, one of the leading speakers.

One of the key lecturers of the school will be Professor at the University of Barcelona Jordi Peña-Casanova and Professor of the Department of Special Education of David Yellin Academic College of Education (Israel) Bella Kotik-Friedgood.

Within a few days, the brain laboratory and neurocognitive development of Ural Federal University will demonstrate young scientists how they work with disorders of the artistic spectrum in Ekaterinburg, why parents of small children are invited in the laboratories, and disclose in detail what methods of neurodiagnostics and neurocorrection are used.