SPACEDUCATION

NEWS

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• UNED Talks on Spatial Cognition.

• XVIII Science Week of the Community of Madrid. For second consecutive year, we have performed the workshop entitled " Maps in the faculty of treasure: spatial reasoning and orientation in real environments"

• María José Contreras's research stay at the Astrobiology Center CSIC-INTA associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute

• Radio Program “Searching the north by land and sea: spatial thought education”, with M.J. Contreras, A. Rodán, and R. Martínez (01 March 2018, Canal UNED –in Spanish language-)

• Brenda Milner, Pioneering Brain Scientist: "I started at Cambridge University in mathematics and decided that I wasn't going to be a great mathematician because I don't have enough spatial ability"

• XVII Science Week of the Community of Madrid. A new funny workshop was performed entitled " Maps in the faculty of treasure: spatial reasoning and orientation in real environments"

• Why do not girls want to be engineers?

• Radio Program “Research into sex equality and spatial skills: What can you do?”, with M.J. Contreras, M.R. Elosúa, A. Rodán and L.M. Fernández-Méndez (16 March 2017, Canal UNED –in Spanish language-).

• Participation in the Science Classroom Project

• International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

• Why do not girls want to study science?

• Press release in DivulgaUNED about the project.

• XVI Science Week of the Community of Madrid. A lot of children enjoyed and learned with our spatial workshops.

• Recently, María José Contreras has published a blog post about training spatial skills in the Website of Roberto Colom. We encourage you to read and enjoy it.

• We will be in the next XVI Science Week of the Community of Madrid and we carry out different activities related with spatial skills.

• How to raise a genius: lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children. A long-running investigation of exceptional children reveals what it takes to produce the scientists who will lead the twenty-first century.

• Radio Program "Is it possible to train spatial skills? What, how and when" with M.R. Elosúa, M.J. Contreras, A. Rodán, and L.M. Fernández (06 April 2016, Canal UNED -In Spanish language-).

• XV Science Week of the Community of Madrid. We performed various activities directed to different age group in spatial cognition.

• Congratulations to members of the Uttal Lab and several SILC members for recieving the George A. Miller Award for their article "The Malleability of Spatial Skills: A Meta-Analysis of Training Studies.

• Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for finding brain’s ‘you are here’ cells.

• Antonio Rodan wins Best Poster Award at the Third Forum of junior researchers from the Faculty of Psychology (9 April 2015, UNED).

• Radio Program “Visuospatial reasoning and mathematical skills in the current educational system”, with M.J. Contreras, M.R. Elosúa, P. Gimeno, and A. Rodán ( 23 April 2015, Canal UNED –in Spanish language-).