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The Social Synapse: Using play and relationships to build executive function.
Speaker: Dr. Robbin Gibb (BSc '77, MSc '01, PhD '04), Department of Neuroscience
Abstract: During our lifespan, one of the most important ways to promote healthy brain function is through supportive and positive relationships. This talk will highlight our successes in the community using play-based programs that exercise working memory, cognitive flexibility and behavioural inhibition. These programs offered through the Building Brains Together organization and funded by the City of Lethbridge are currently running in preschools, middle schools, and in senior centres. We are also pleased to support cognitive testing for participants in the Chess for Life program designed by Dr. Lance Grigg for justice-involved youth. This work is funded by an anonymous donor and our goal is to demonstrate that youth who learn to play chess with a one-on-one mentor during their 25- hour sentence, show improvements in their executive function skills.
Date: March 13, 2024
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Location: BMO Auditorium, University of Lethbridge Science Commons
This is a free event
Contact:
Cameron Beazer | cameron.beazer@uleth.ca | ulethbridge.ca/artsci/neuroscience/brain-awareness-week
