BrainLENS -- Neuroimaging Lab @ UCSF

Welcome

brainLENS (Laboratory for Educational NeuroScience) at the University of California, San Francisco combines cutting-edge, cross-disciplinary research methods with a deep passion for maximizing children’s potential in life, particularly stemming from the academic domain.

With a firm belief in interdisciplinary research, we integrate the latest brain imaging techniques, genetic analysis, and computational approaches to examine processes of learning, including acquisition of skills, such as reading, socio-emotional processing, motivation and resilience.

In the spirit of our lab, we aim to share the love of neuroscience with children of all ages, rapidly translate research findings to practice, and collaborate with teachers, clinicians, and families.

Participate Support Our Mission

Registration open for The Dyslexia Foundation conference: “Dyslexia and Literacy: From Neurons to the Classroom”
February 16 2017, The Mission Bay Conference Center UCSF, San Francisco, CA
PI Hoeft to speak at workshop by The Hebrew University and Israel Science Foundation: “First vs. Second Language Learning: from Neurobiology to Cognition”
September 26-28 2016, Israel
Hoeft elected to Professional Advisory Board of National Center for Learning Disabilities
September 2016
Bilingual Project Team and Lab Member Stephanie Haft Present at International Mind Brain Education Society
September 16-17 2016, Toronto Canada
PI Fumiko Hoeft to Speak at TEDx Sausalito, Talk Topic: “Twice-Exceptionality, Coincidence, or Meant To Be?”
September 22 2016 1pm-7pm, Bay Area Discovery Museum (Sausalito, CA)
PI Hoeft gives distinguished lecture series at Georgia State: “Intergenerational Imaging of Reading Networks”
September 1 2016 2:00pm, Georgia State Univ
Professional training offered at AIM Academy by Dr. Hoeft: “Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Resilience in Children with Dyslexia”
August 31 2016 9:30-11:30am EDT, AIM Academy, Conshohocken, PA
Thomas Lachmann PhD visits brainLENS and gives talk: “Reading as a Functional Coordination: A Framework”
July 26 2016, UCSF LPPI
Hoeft, Hancock, Xia, Vandermosten and Linkersdoerfer to Speak at The Dyslexia Foundation Symposium, “Geschwind-Galaburda Hypothesis - 30 Yrs Later”
co-organized by Hoeft, Galaburda and Gaab; June 19-24 2016, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
Association for Psychological Science Convention, Educational Neuroscience Symposium- Hoeft to give talk, topic “TBA”
May 26-28 2016, Chicago, IL
Archives

	brainLENS Summary of Projects Uploaded October 19, 2015
	brainLENS Trifold Brochure Uploaded October 19, 2015
	Center for Childhood Creativity White Paper (in collaboration with LENS members) Uploaded February 10, 2016

We feel that it is imperative as an educational neuroscience laboratory to translate insights from the laboratory to educational practice and theory. Some examples of our research include:

Neuroscience of internal environment such as grit, motivation, mindset, and resilience.

How do we inherit brain networks, cognitive and character traits? Research on intergenerational transmission patterns using a natural cross-fostering design, genetics, & imaging.

Genes to cognition. Research to understand auditory processing, dyslexia & related disabilities using a comprehensive approach from genes, neurochemicals, oscillations, connectomes, to cognition.

Innovative growth charts for brain networks.Brain version of those for height & weight received from a pediatrician’s office. Collaboration with 20+ sites.

Early identification & personalized education. Development of a comprehensive school-readiness app from reading, math,executive function, character traits and creativity. Development of neuroimaging-based models to predict learning profiles and risk for developing disorders before they can be identified using conventional methods.

Identification of novel subtypes of and examination of relative strength of dyslexia using data-driven approaches.

For more information regarding the lab, contact Professor Fumiko Hoeft at info@brainlens.org.