WIES Lecture: Attention and Learning in Young Children

October 18, 2017, 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Wisconsin Idea Room (159) Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall

Anna Fisher

Associate Professor of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

Anna Fisher’s talk will focus on the development of attention regulation during the preschool period, and its importance for learning when children begin formal schooling. She will discuss how learning environments can promote or hinder attention and learning in young children.