Webinar Alert: November 30, 12:00-1:00 pm (ET), Using Arts Data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study
On November 30 at 12 pm (ET), join the National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to learn about the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study and how it is used to understand the arts' potential impacts on child health and brain development! This webinar is free and open to the public.
During this webinar, Dr. Gay Dowling will introduce the ABCD Study, the largest prospective longitudinal study of brain development and child health in the U.S. Having enrolled nearly 12,000 diverse youth from across the country starting at ages 9-10 and assessing them repeatedly for a decade, the ABCD Study is poised to answer myriad questions about adolescent development. Dr. Dowling will describe the origins of the study, its methods, and its open science framework, which allows researchers from around the world to analyze ABCD data, thereby enriching the value of the study.
Dr. Iversen will give an overview of the arts-specific measures within ABCD. He will discuss how these measures are used in concert with the comprehensive characterization of brain and cognitive measures to understand the impact of the arts on development. Dr. Iversen will give examples of connections between arts experiences and measures of development, showing a high prevalence of the arts, with music being the most impactful activity among a wide range of artistic and athletic activities.
Meet the Presenters:
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Gayathri J. Dowling, Ph.D. is the Director of the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Project at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Previously, Dr. Dowling served as the Deputy Director of the Office of Science Policy, Engagement, Education, and Communications at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Chief of Science Policy at NIDA. In these positions, Dr. Dowling provided scientifically-based information to patients and their family members, health professionals, researchers, policy makers, and other stakeholders to inform policy and promote the prevention and treatment of a wide variety of diseases. Dr. Dowling earned a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of California at Davis, where she studied the developing nervous system, and subsequently conducted research at the Parkinson’s Institute prior to joining NIH where she initially worked at the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. |
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John R. Iversen, Ph.D. is a cognitive neuroscientist at McMaster University who studies music and the brain. He has championed the idea of leveraging existing large-scale developmental studies such as the NIH Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study by nesting studies of music and arts within them and holds an NIH Sound Health grant for this work. Dr. Iversen directed the SIMPHONY project and co-directs the EARLI project, part of a National Endowment for the Arts Research Laboratory. Both are longitudinal studies of the impact of music training on children's brain and cognitive development. Dr. Iversen is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior and a member of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind and the LIVELab, the world’s first concert hall built from the ground up for neuroscience research. After undergraduate studies in Physics at Harvard, John received an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge and received a PhD in Speech and Hearing Science from MIT. |
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About NADAC: National Archive of Data on Arts and Culture (NADAC) is a repository that facilitates research on arts and culture by acquiring data, particularly those funded by federal agencies and other organizations, and sharing those data with researchers, policymakers, people in the arts and culture field, and the general public. It is one of several topical archives hosted by ICPSR, the largest social science data archive in the world and part of the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. NADAC is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Thanks to the support from the NEA, users can obtain data from NADAC completely free of charge.
Nov 2, 2023