NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Ken Pugh, a scientist renowned for his research on language organization and the neurobiology of reading, reading disabilities and attention deficit disorder, will speak at a free public lecture Thursday, March 27, at Vanderbilt University’s John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.
Pugh’s lecture, “Understanding Reading Through Neuroimaging,” is scheduled at 4 p.m. in Room 241 of the Kennedy Center/MRL Building on Vanderbilt’s Peabody Campus. Pugh is the fourth and final speaker in a series of interdisciplinary public lectures on the science of reading organized by the John F. Kennedy Center.
Pugh is research scientist in pediatrics (neurology) at Yale University’s School of Medicine and a senior scientist at Haskins Laboratories. He is a member of the Rand Corporation Panel on New Directions for Children’s Research and Developmental Policy, which is co-sponsored by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
For information about Pugh’s lecture, call 322-8240. For information on Brainstorm, call 936-2637 or visit the Brainstorm Internet site at braininstitute.vanderbilt.edu.