The New York Academy of Sciences and the Aspen Brain Forum Foundation are sponsoring a conference on the “Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning: Implications for Education” in Aspen, Colorado, on September 22-24, 2011. 

Sessions will be devoted to:

• Early Learning and Development 

• Reading and Language 

• Mathematical Reasoning 

• Executive Functioning and Attention 

• Poverty, Brain Development, and Education 

• Translating Research into the Classroom

The Aspen Brain Forum Foundation will also award two prizes of $7500 each to researchers working in the interface of cognitive neuroscience and education (one for a junior researcher and one for a senior researcher).  The deadline for prize applications is July 29.

More information about the conference and the prize competition can be found at the conference website.