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SUMMARY:Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cor
 tex goes a long way - Sharon L. Thompson-Schill\, Ph.D\, Christopher H. Br
 owne Distinguished Professor of Psychology\, University of Pennsylvania
DTSTART:20191112T163000Z
DTEND:20191112T180000Z
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:Prefrontal cortex is a key component of a system that enables 
 us to regulate our thoughts\, behaviors and emotions\, and impairments in 
 all of these domains can readily be observed when this cognitive control s
 ystem is compromised. Here\, I explore a somewhat less intuitive hypothesi
 s\, namely that cognitive control has costs\, as well as benefits\, for co
 gnition. I will provide evidence from several experiments in which we mani
 pulated frontally-mediated cognitive control processes using noninvasive b
 rain stimulation of prefrontal cortex and observed the consequences for di
 fferent aspects of cognition. Using this experimental methodology\, we dem
 onstrate the costs and benefits of cognitive control for language producti
 on and comprehension\; learning and memory\; and creative problem solving.
  I will suggest that this framework for thinking about cognitive control h
 as important implications for our understanding of cognition in children p
 rior to maturation of prefrontal cortex. \n\n\nBio\n\nSharon L. Thompson-S
 chill is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology a
 t the University of Pennsylvania.  She received her B.A. in Psychology fro
 m Davidson College in 1991 and her PhD in Psychology from Stanford Univers
 ity in 1996. Thompson-Schill's lab studies the biological bases of human c
 ognitive systems. She uses a combination of psychological and neuroscienti
 fic methods\, in both healthy and brain-damaged individuals\, to study the
  psychological\, neurological\, and genetic bases of complex thought and b
 ehavior\, including topics in perception\, memory\, attention\, language\,
  personality and creativity. She is the Founding Director of Penn’s Mind
  Center for Outreach\, Research and Education (MindCORE)\, the university
 ’s hub for the integrative study of the mind\, connecting researchers ac
 ross the campus and with the community  Her research is funded by the Nati
 onal Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and has been
  recognized by numerous awards including the Searle Scholars Award\, the Y
 oung Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society\, and Psyc
 honomic Society Mid-Career Award. Thompson-Schill is also an enthusiastic 
 teacher of psychology and neuroscience\, and she has won numerous local an
 d national teaching awards\, including the Women in Cognitive Science Ment
 orship Award and Penn's Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. \n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology
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