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SUMMARY:Visitors Talk: Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, University of Southern California
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Solange Denervaud ( https://cibm.ch/community/solange-denervaud/ ), CIBM Flagship Project Officer, we are pleased  to invite you to attend the CIBM Visitors Talk on April 24th at 13:00 CEST by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang from the University of Southern California who will be sharing on “Longitudinal neurodevelopmental correlates of mid-adolescents’ psychosocial processing: A path to young adult wellbeing?”.\nDate and time: Friday, April 24th, 2026 – 13:00 CEST\nLocation:  CIBM seminar room, EPFL, Lausanne & online\n																														\nMary Helen Immordino-Yang\nUniversity of Southern California\nAbout the speaker \nMary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., is the Fahmy and Donna Attallah Professor of Humanistic Psychology and a professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience at the University of Southern California. She is the founding director of the USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education, or CANDLE. Immordino-Yang has pioneered novel approaches to the study of social-emotional and brain development with implications for educational practice and policy.\nTALK: Longitudinal neurodevelopmental correlates of mid-adolescents’ psychosocial processing: A path to young adult wellbeing?\nAbstract\nCombining open-ended interviews (outside the scanner) with structural, trial-by-trial, and resting-state functional MRI neuroimaging, we examined real-time functional neural dynamics underlying diverse urban mid-adolescents’ cognitive and emotional engagement with compelling social stories at two time-points, two years apart. We found that the patterns of longitudinal change in neural network dynamics predicted psychosocial outcomes five years later in young adulthood.We found that “transcendent thinking” – seeing situations not just in terms of X happened to person A, which makes me feel thusly, but in terms of the larger societal and contextual forces that shaped how Person A was treated and how Person A reacted, the broader implications and lessons one can draw from that situation, and the larger issues it exemplifies or reveals—correlated with a particular set of neural activity dynamics and predicted future structural and functional neural development across the subsequent two years, controlling for the starting state of neural development, and independent of IQ and SES. Transcendent thinking also countered negative effects of exposure to community violence on structural brain development.The neural development predicted by transcendent thinking (the changes in the brain across the 2-year period) in turn predicted young adult identity strength, self-liking, relationship satisfaction, and achievement 5 years later.These findings reveal a novel predictor of neural development across mid-adolescence, and underscore the active role adolescents play in their own brain development through the meaning they make of the social world. Implications for secondary education and pedagogy will be discussed.\nSeminar Chair\n																														\nSolange Denervaud\nCIBM Flagship Project Officer\nClick here to know more about Solange ( https://cibm.ch/community/solange-denervaud/ )\nJOIN US ON SITE!\nYou are welcome to join us on site at the CIBM seminar room, EPFL, Lausanne. The event is for free and registration is not required.\nOR REMOTELY\nTo join us remotely please,  register at the following Zoom link:https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/J9fJmYSQStOHtZMlxhTgaw \nZoom Code: 653 9574 7315\nWe look forward to seeing you there!\n
URL:https://cibm.ch/event/visitors-talk-mary-helen-immordino-yang-university-of-southern-california/
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LOCATION:CIBM seminar room, EPFL, Lausanne & online
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