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Vancouver professor receives $1.1 million in grants to study how the brain understands what it hears

October 17, 2013

By Brenda Alling, WSU Vancouver VANCOUVER, Wash. – Christine Portfors, associate professor of biology and neuroscience and head of the Hearing and Communication Laboratory at Washington State University Vancouver, has received two federal grants totaling more than $1.1 million over three years. The grants will be used to study how neurons in the brains of […]

Presenter tells how brain research changes teaching

June 23, 2003

Approximately 175 teachers are meeting this week at Washington State University’s College of Education to learn about the latest research in effective teaching, including the keynote presentation about the educational implications of recent research in brain structure and development. The presenter is Robert Sylwester, emeritus professor of education at the University of Oregon, who focuses […]