Invited Conference Presentations, Workshops, and Lectures
Invited speaker, Brain Health for Life, Sponsored by Institute Guttman, Biocat, La Caixa, and Institute for Neurosciences of the University of Barcelona, Meditecnologia, and Medicen Paris, December, 2020.
Keynote speaker, Neuroergonomics symposium (virtual), Sponsored by Frontiers in Neuroergonomics, October, 2020.
Invited Speaker, University of Vermont, Medical School and Wellness Environment, Burlington, Vermont, October, 2020.
Invited speaker, 29th annual Adler symposium, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, San Diego, CA February, 2020.
Invited speaker, USC Catalina Neuroscience retreat, Catalina, California, December, 2019.
Invited speaker, Boston Veterans Administrations Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology lecture series, November 2019.
Invited Speaker, University of Vermont, Medical School and Wellness Environment, Burlington, Vermont, October, 2019.
Keynote speaker, 1st International Sport Neuroscience Conference, Tsukuba, Japan, September, 2019.
Invited Speaker, University of Granada, Sport and Health University Research Institute, Granada, Spain, September, 2019.
Invited Speaker, Emanuel Donchin Memorial Symposium, Annual Society for Psychophysiological Research meeting, Washington, D.C., September, 2019.
Keynote speaker, Congress on Brain, Behavior and Emotion, Brasilia, Brazil, June, 2019.
Invited speaker, Department of Psychological Sciences, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, March, 2019.
Invited speaker, Bohan lecture, University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, Kansas, March, 2019.
Invited speaker, American Psychopathological Association meeting, New York, New York, March, 2019.
Invited speaker, John P. Boogher Memorial lecture, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland, February, 2019.
Invited keynote speaker, SHIFT: Public Lands, Public Health Jackson, WY, October, 2018.
Invited speaker, Talk of Ages speaker series, Lassel College, Newton, MA, October, 2018.
Visiting Professorship in the Wellness Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, September, 2018.
Invited keynote speaker, 3rd International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, NSF & ONR, Berlin, Germany, July, 2018.
Invited keynote speaker, Boston Roybal Center for Active Lifestyle Interventions (RALI), Boston, MA, June, 2018.
Invited plenary speaker, Brain Health and Performance Summit, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April, 2018.
Invited speaker and participant, Emotional Well-Being: Emerging Insights and Questions for Future Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, April, 2018.
Invited speaker, CEREBRAL Symposium, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, April, 2018.
Invited speaker, Neuroscience program, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, February, 2018.
Invited speaker, Healthy Aging symposium, Tufts University medical school, Boston, MA, November, 2017
Invited speaker, University of California in San Francisco Medical School, San Francisco, CA, October 2017.
Invited speaker, University of Vermont, Wellness Experience symposium, Burlington, VT, September, 2017.
Invited speaker and participant, Science of Behavior Change workshop, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, July, 2017.
Invited speaker, International Congress of Physical Education and Physical Activity, Rio Clario, Brazil, June, 2017.
Organizer and speaker, National Academy of Sciences workshop on Understanding Pathways to Successful Aging: How Social and Behavioral Factors Affect Health at Older Age, Washington, D.C., June 2017.
Invited speaker, Economic and Social Research Council seminar on Cognitive Aging: An AgeUK seminar hosted by the University of York. Manchester, U.K., June, 2017.
Invited speaker, International symposium on Smart Aging, Institute of Development, Aging, and Cancer (IDAC), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, May, 2017.
Invited speaker, Global Brain Health and Performance Summit, Ohio State University. Columbus, Ohio, April, 2017.
Invited speaker, Experimental Biology conference, Chicago, Illinois, April, 2017.
Invited speaker, Neurorehabilitation: How plastic is the human brain?, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway, March, 2017.
Invited speaker, International convention of Psychological Science, Austria Center Vienna, Vienna, Austria, March, 2017.
Keynote speaker, National Academy of Sciences, University of California at Irvine, Symposium on Exercise and Brain Health, Irvine, CA, March, 2017.
Invited speaker, Adler Foundation Symposium on Alzheimer’s Disease, Salk Institute, San Diego, CA, February, 2017.
Invited speaker, 50th Winter Brain Conference, Big Sky, Montana, January, 2017.
Invited speaker, University of Vermont, Wellness Environment program, December, 2016.
Invited speaker, Visiting Scientist series, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisana, November, 2016.
Invited speaker, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, November, 2016.
Invited speaker and institute external reviewer, Program of Brain Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea, October, 2016.
Invited speaker, Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, October 2016.
American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientist lecture. Assumption College, Worchester, MA, October 2016.
Invited speaker, Department of Psychology, Tufts University, Boston, October 2016.
Invited speaker, Program in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Neurosciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, September 2016.
Invited speaker, Walking towards a healthy brain: Physical activity and brain health, Rayburn building, Washington, D.C. Sponsored by AAAS, Dana Foundation, AARP and the Congressional Neuroscience Caucus, September 2016.
Invited speaker and recipient of the Arthur Cherkin Memorial award, 33rd Annual UCLA Intensive Course in Geriatric Medicine & Board Review, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCAL, Los Angeles, California, September 2016.
Invited speaker, Global Brain Health and Performance Summit, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May, 2016.
Invited speaker, Wellness in MS Symposium: Why Exercise Matters and the Science Behind It, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, May, 2016.
Invited Speaker, Advanced Judicial Academy, The Aging Population: A Proactive Approach. Lombard, Illinois, February, 2016
Invited Speaker, Tracing brain and behavioral changes across the lifespan: Influence of intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen, Denmark, January, 2016.
Keynote speaker, Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS), Auckland, New Zealand, November, 2015.
Invited speaker, Brain Health: From Genes to Behavior, Improving our Life. B-Debate, International Center for Scientific Debate, Barcelona, Spain, October, 2015.
Invited speaker, 2015 Annual Meeting of the North American Menopause Society, Presidential symposium on the Female Brain: Menopause & Aging, Las Vegas, Nevada, October, 2015.
Invited speaker, American Psychological Association annual meeting, Toronto, Canada, August, 2015.
Invited speaker, 14th European Congress of Psychology, Milan, Italy, July, 2015.
Invited speaker, Advanced Judicial Academy: Science in the Courtroom Urbana, Illinois, June, 2015.
Invited speaker, 2015 International congress of physical activity and human movement sciences (IX-CIEFMH-XV SPEF), Rio Claro, Brazil, June 2015.
Invited speaker, International symposium on aviation psychology, Dayton, Ohio, May 2015.
Invited speaker, 4th Israeli Conference on Exercise is Medicine for the Brain, Tel Aviv, Israel, May, 2015.
Invited speaker, Ageing and degeneration: A physiological perspective, The Physiological Society, Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, U.K., April, 2015.
Invited speaker, Charles River Association for Memory, 19th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March, 2015.
Invited speaker, Illinois Science Council, Chicago, Illinois, February, 2015.
Invited speaker, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, February, 2015
Invited speaker, Department of Psychology, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, February, 2015
Spivack Neuroscience Visiting Professor, Boston University Medical School, Boston, MA, January, 2015.
Invited speaker, Andrus Gerontology Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, November, 2014.
Keynote speaker, Forum on Wellness, International Council on Active Aging, Orlando, Florida, November, 2014.
Invited participant, Wellness strategy meeting, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Fort Worth Texas, November, 2014.
Keynote speaker, Exercise and Brain symposium, Department of Psychiatry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, October, 2014.
Invited speaker, 2014 Society for Psychophysiological Research Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, September, 2014.
Keynote speaker, International Academy on Nutrition and Aging, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July, 2014.
Invited speaker, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience of National Central University, Jhongli, Taiwan, June, 2014.
Keynote speaker, 17th Conference on Attention and Perception, National Chung Ching University, Chiayi, Taiwan, June, 2014
Invited speaker, Physiological effects of exercise, Department of Physiology and Neurobiology Seminar Series, Dartmouth University, Lebanon, NH, May, 2014.
Keynote speaker, Perform Center Research Conference: Physical Activity and Brain Functions, Concordia University, Montreal, May, 2014.
Invited participant, Cognition in the Wild, Moab, Utah, May, 2014.
Invited speaker, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, April, 2014.
Invited speaker, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, April, 2014.
Invited speaker, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, March, 2014.
Invited speaker, Institute for Successful Longevity, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, February, 2014.
Invited speaker, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, February, 2014.
Invited speaker, Center for Vital Longevity, UT Dallas, Dallas, Texas, January, 2014.
Invited speaker, Seattle Study Club, Phoenix, AZ, January, 2014.
Keynote speaker, John Sutton Memorial lecture, Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology Annual Meeting and Conference, Extreme Human Physiology: Pathology to Performance, Toronto, Canada, October, 2013.
Keynote speaker, 7th Annual Alzheimer’s Disease Symposium. Indiana Alzheimer’s Disease Center. Indiana University School of Medicine. Indianapolis, Indiana, September, 2103.
Keynote speaker, Institute for Engineering in Medicine Annual Conference and retreat. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., September 2013.
Invited speaker, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, September, 2013.
Invited speaker, European Congress of Psychology, Life style factors and brain function, Stockholm, Sweden, July, 2013.
Invited grand rounds speaker, Department of Neurology, Stanford Medical School, Stanford, California, July, 2013.
Invited speaker, Healthy Brain Aging: Alzheimer’s Disease Risk and Protective Factors, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, May, 2013.
Fitts lecture, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May, 2013.
Invited Speaker, 114th Abbott Nutrition Research Conference: Cognition and Nutrition, Columbus, Ohio, April, 2013.
Hogan Memorial lecture, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, April, 2013.
Invited speaker, NIH Workshop to Advance Basic Behavioral Science in Obesity Research, Bethesda, Maryland, April, 2013.
Invited Speaker, Annual Experimental Biology Conference, Nutrition and Physical Activity: Impacts on Cognitive Function Across the Lifespan, Boston, Massachusetts, April, 2013.
Invited speaker, Workshop on Positive Psychobiology. Sponsored by Princeton’s Center for Research on Experience & Wellbeing, Miami, Florida, March, 2013.
Invited speaker, American Psychosomatic Society Annual meeting, Miami, Florida, March, 2013.
Keynote address, Society of Behavioral Medicine Annual meeting, San Francisco, California, March, 2013.
Invited speaker, Symposium entitled Old Dogs, New Tricks: How Plastic is the Adult Human Brain? American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, February, 2013.
Gregory Kimble lecture, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, January, 2013.
Invited speaker and committee member, Gaps and opportunities in the field of cognitive aging. Sponsored by the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., November 2012.
Invited participant, The Informed Brain in a Digital World, The National Academies Keck Future Initiative, Irvine, California, November, 2012.
Invited keynote speaker, Trinity College Annual Neuroscience Symposium, Dublin, Ireland, November, 2012.
Invited speaker, Mary Morris Leighton Lecture, Beacon Health System, South Bend, Indiana, October, 2012.
Invited speaker and participant, New Directions in Brain Training: Effectiveness, Methodology, and Application of Cognitive Interventions, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, October, 2012.
Invited speaker and participant, National Academy of Sciences, Workshop on Research Gaps and Opportunities for Exploring the Relationship of the Arts to Health and Well-Being in Older Adults, Washington, D.C., September, 2012.
Invited speaker, Exercise is Medicine, 2012 Vice-Chancellor’s lecture series, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, August, 2012.
Invited speaker, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Workshop in Cognitive Aging, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, June, 2012.
Invited speaker, 12th International conference on the long-term complications of treatment of children and adolescents for cancer, Williamsburg, Virginia, June, 2012.
Invited speaker, Workshop on cognition and performance, Technion University, Haifa, Israel, May, 2012.
Invited speaker, American Psychological Society Annual Meeting, Symposium on Training improves performance and neuroplasticity: Mechanism and application May, 2012.
Invited speaker, National Advisory Council meeting for the National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland, May, 2012.
Invited Speaker, Honor’s speaker series, Union College, Schenectady, New York, May, 2012.
Invited speaker, Overview on Aging Interventions, 2012 Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, April, 2012.
Invited speaker, Symposium on Future Directions on Aging Research using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging, Canadian Institutes of Health, Vancouver, Canada, April, 2012.
Invited speaker, New York Neuropsychology Groups Annual Conference, New York, New York, April, 2012.
Invited speaker, Reprogramming the Human Brain, Center for Brain Health, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, April, 2012.
Keynote speaker, The Brainy Side of Exercise: benefits to Neurons, Mind, and Behavior, sponsored by the MacMillian Family Trust, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, March, 2012.
Invited speaker, LIFE Study symposium, Arlington, Virginia, March, 2012.
Invited speaker, Spring 2012 Lecture Series on Successful Longevity, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, March, 2012.
Invited speaker and symposium participant, Aging: Cells to Society, 2012 AAAS Annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada, February, 2012.
Invited speaker, 2012 Neuroscience Seminar Series, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, February, 2012.
Keynote speaker, American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) Conference on Physical activity, cognitive function, and academic achievement: Moving students to better performance. Washington, DC, November 2011.
Keynote speaker, From New Frontiers in Research to Better Patient Care, Annual Parkinson Disease Patient-Family symposium, Northwestern University Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Center, Chicago, Illinois, October, 2011.
Invited speaker, 11th International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON), Palma, Mallorca, Spain, September, 2011.
Invited speaker, 81st Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Kinesiology, Minneapolis, MN, September, 2011.
Invited speaker, Boosting the Brain: Neuroplasticity and Cognition across the Lifespan, Nobel Forum, Karolinski Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, September, 2011.
Invited speaker, Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (AAICAD), Paris, France, July, 2011.
Invited speaker, The 21St International Puijo Symposium: Physical Exercise, Ageing and Disability. Kuopio, Finland, July, 2011.
Invited speaker, 29th Conference on Learning and the Brain, The science of student success: Optimizing achievement and reducing failure. Chicago, Illinois, May 2011.
Invited speaker, Conference on neural correlates of extraordinary multi-tasking, Brain Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 2011.
Invited speaker, Louis E. Alley Lecture, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 2011.
Invited speaker, American Speech Language Hearing Association Health Care Business Institute, Brain Institute, Washington, D.C., April 2011.
Invited speaker, International Neuropsychological Society meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, February, 2011.
Invited speaker, Conference on the Psychology of Health, Immunity & Disease, National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine, South Carolina, December, 2010.
Invited speaker and participant, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Public Forum on Safety, Mobility, and Aging Drivers, Washington, DC, November 2010.
Invited speaker, 4th National Symposium on Complementary & Alternative Geriatric Health Care, St. Louis, Missouri, October 2010.
Keynote speaker, Healthy Aging Conference, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, October 2010.
Invited speaker, Koshland Science Museum, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., October 2010.
Invited speaker, Netherlands Consortium for Health Aging, Spark meeting on Vitality, Healthy Ageing, and Cognition, Leiden, Netherlands, September, 2010.
Invited speaker, Effects of exercise and nutrients on brain functions. Elass Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, August, 2010.
Invited speaker, RAND Summer Institute on Demography, Economics, and Epidemiology of Aging. Santa Monica, California, July, 2010.
Invited speaker, American Physical Therapy Association meeting on Exercise and Physical Activity in Aging Conference: Blending Research and Practice. Indianapolis, Indiana, July, 2010.
Invited speaker, 24th Annual International Conference on Practical Approaches to the Treatment of Obesity, Harvard medical School, Boston, June, 2010.
Keynote speaker, Clinical Aphasiology Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, May 2010.
Invited speaker, International symposium on exercise to promote cognitive health and functional independence. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, May 2010.
Invited speaker, Kendon Smith Lecture on Maintaining Mental Fitness: Influences & Interventions. Greensboro, North Carolina April, 2010
Invited speaker, NIH State of the Art Conference: Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline. Washington, D.C. April, 2010.
Invited speaker, Changing People, Changing Brains: Challenges for Interdisciplinary Research on Human Learning and Development across the Life-Span, Konstanz, Germany, April, 2010.
Invited speaker, 20th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference: The Frontal Lobes, Toronto, Canada, March, 2010.
Invited speaker, Innovative Sports Science Forum, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, March, 2010.
Invited speaker, 3rd International Conference on Gait and Mental Function, Washington, D.C., February, 2010.
Invited speaker, North Carolina Cognition Conference, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, February, 2010.
Keynote speaker, Movement Science Symposium, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, January 2010.
Invited speaker, American Association for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Annual Conference, Exercise is Medicine for the Brain, Austin, Texas, October, 2009.
Invited speaker, U.S. National Press Club, Enrichment effects on adult cognitive development, Washington, DC., June, 2009.
Invited symposium speaker and participant, 15th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. San Francisco, CA, June 2009.
Invited speaker, American Psychological Society, 21st Annual Convention, New interventions for productive aging. San Francisco, CA, May 2009.
Invited speaker, National Academy of Sciences, The Grand Challenges of our Aging Society: A Symposium, Washington, DC, May, 2009.
Invited speaker, American Academy of Neurology 61st Annual Meeting, Promoting successful cognitive aging: Factors, facts, and fairy tales. Seattle, April, 2009.
Invited participant, Workshop on Harnessing Neuroplasticity for Human Application, National Institutes of Health Blueprint for Neuroscience Research, Rockville, Maryland, April, 2009.
Invited speaker, Annual Conference of the American Society of Aging and the National Council on Aging, Las Vegas, Nevada, March, 2009.
Invited speaker, Alzheimer Disease: Environmental Risk, Prevention and Early Intervention. Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, May 2008.
Invited speaker, American Psychological Society workshop on Advances in Cognitive Aging Research, Chicago, Illinois, May 2008.
Invited speaker, 2008 Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society, NIA/NIH Symposium on Cognitive Aging, Washington, D.C., May, 2008.
Invited speaker, Neurobiology and Cognition Mini-Symposium on Aging: My Better Mind, Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, May 2008.
Invited participant, Workshop on empirical evidence of cognitive interventions. Sponsored by the Stanford Center on Longevity and Max Planck Institute for Human Development. Palo Alto, CA, April, 2008.
Invited speaker, 6th Annual MCI Symposium: The Basis for Disease Modifying Treatment of Prodromal Alzheimer’s Disease. Miami Beach, Florida, March 2008.
Conference Co-Organizer and speaker, Healthy Mind’s Conference, sponsored by the NIA Center on Healthy Mind’s, Sarasota, Florida, February, 2008.
Invited speaker, Mental Health and the Brain: Implications for Lifelong Learning, sponsored by the Foundation for Human Potential and the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Nov 15-16, 2007.
Invited speaker, 11th Biennial Graylyn Conference on Women's Cognitive Health, Graylyn Conference Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Oct 24-26, 2007.
Keynote speaker, 7th Annual Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit Conference: Enhancing Cognition in Older Adults: Connecting Research and Clinical Care, Baycrest Joseph E. and Minnie Wagman Centre, Toronto, Canada, Oct 19, 2007,
Invited speaker, Aging and Speech Communication: An International & Interdisciplinary Research Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, Oct 7-10, 2007.
Invited speaker and participant, Cognitive Aging Summit, Sponsored by the National Institutes on Aging & the McKnight Brain Research Foundation, Washington, D.C. October 10-11, 2007.
Invited dinner speaker, Physics education research conference: Cognitive science and physics education research. Greensboro, NC, Aug 1-2, 2007.
Keynote speaker, Advances in Basic and Clinical Neuropsychology, Annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Bilbao, Spain, July 4-7, 2007.
Keynote speaker, Psychology and the Brain, German Society for Psychophysiology, Dortmund, Germany, June 2007.
Invited witness and speaker, U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Subcommittee on Retirement and Aging. Hearing: Alzheimer’s Disease: Current and Future Breakthrough Research, Dirksen Senate Office Building, May 15, 2007.
Invited speaker and participant, Spark Workshop: The healthy Aging Phenotype. Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2007.
Keynote speaker, 7th Kognitionsforschung. March 2007. University of Saarland. Sarbrucken, Germany.
Invited speaker and participant, 5th Annual Dementia Congress. November 2006. Orlando, Florida.
Invited speaker and participant, APA Symposium on Optimal Aging and Cognition: Moderators of Cognitive Change and Decline. August 2006. New Orleans, LA.
Keynote speaker and participant, Workshop on Cognitive Systems: Bridging Cellular to Social. Sandia National Labs. June 2006. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Invited speaker and participant, Workshop on Body, Mind, Health & Brain. Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina. May 2006. Marbach Castle, Ohningen, Germany.
Invited speaker and participant, Cognitive activity from bedside to bench. American Geriatrics Society 2006 Annual Scientific Meeting. May 2006, Chicago, Illinois.
Invited speaker and participant, National public action plan to promote and protect brain health: Research meeting on Cognition and translation, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and the national Institute on Aging, May 2006, Atlanta, Georgia.
Invited speaker and participant, Milken Institute Global Conference on Healthy Aging. April 2006, Santa Monica, California.
Invited speaker and participant, Workshop on Cognitive Vitality in Later Life, sponsored by the American Geriatric Society and the National Institute on Aging, March 2006, Philadelphia, PA.
Invited speaker and participant, MaxNetAging Conference II, November, 2005, Malaga, Spain.
Invited symposium speaker and participant, Society for Neuroscience symposium on Diet and Lifestyle in Brain Plasticity and Disease, November 2005, Washington, D.C.
Invited speaker and participant, North Dakota State University Mini Conference on Visual Neuroscience, September 2005, Fargo, North Dakota.
Invited speaker, National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Centers Directors Meeting, September 2005, San Diego, California.
Invited speaker, American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Applying Psychology: Walking, Driving and Flying, August 2005, Washington, D.C.
Invited speaker, American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Enhancing Cognitive Plasticity: Fitness and Cognitive Training, August 2005, Washington, D.C.
Invited speaker and participant, Workshop on Cognitive Vitality and Aging, Institute for the Study of Aging, July, 2005, Bridgehampton, N.Y.
Invited speaker, Symposium on Integrating Mechanisms Linking Mind, Brain, and Periphery: Applications in Asthma and Atherosclerosis, National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, July 2005, Arlie House, Virginia.
Invited speaker, Exercise, Sport Performance and the Human Brain. 52nd Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, June 2005, Nashville, TN.
Invited speaker, Affordable Human Behavior Modeling Workshop. Office of Naval Research, June 2005, Arlington, VA.
Keynote speaker, The center of attention: Theoretical advances and implications for rehabilitation, The 15th Annual Rotman Research Institute Conference, March 2005, Toronto, Canada.
Invited speaker, Third Annual research Symposium on Communication and Social Interaction in Healthy Aging, sponsored by CIHR, February 2005, Ottawa, Canada.
Invited speaker and participant, Symposium on Lifelong Learning, sponsored by the Organization of Economic and Cooperative Development (OECD), January 2005, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited speaker, Enhancing mobility in older adults: Cognitive training and Health, sponsored by the Transportation Research Board, January 2005, Washington, D.C.
Invited speaker, Neurobiology of Exercise, sponsored by U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), December, 2004, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Invited speaker, Frontiers of Biomedical Imaging Symposium: The MRI Nobel Celebration and Future Directions, November, 2004, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.
Keynote speaker, From mental workload to stress: Insights from psychological and psychological research, sponsored by Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, November, 2004, Berlin, Germany.
Conference organizer and speaker, Aging, Exercise and Cognition: Enhancing Cognitive and Brain Plasticity of Older Adults, sponsored by UIUC Initiative on Aging and NIA Roybal Center on Healthy Aging, October 2004, Champaign, Illinois.
Invited speaker and participant, Learning and Multimodal Communication, sponsored by the American Psychological Association, October, 2004, Chicago, Illinois (and web broadcast).
Invited speaker and participant, Nathan W. Shock Symposium – Aging and Disease: How to Exercise your Options – sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, September 2004, Towson, Maryland.
Invited speaker and participant, Does obesity and diabetes affect mood and cognition? SPARK Workshop sponsored by the MacArthur Network and Unilever Corporate Research, July 2004, Bar Harbor, Maine.
Invited speaker and participant, Putting the Brain Back into Medicine, Symposium sponsored by the International Longevity Center, the Institute for the Study of Aging, and the Canyon Ranch Foundation, May 2004, Tucson, Arizona.
Invited speaker and participant, DARPA symposium on Quantifying Human Performance, April 2004, Arlington, Virginia.
Invited speaker and participant, National Institute on Aging Symposium on Cognitive Training for Older Adults, March 2004, Bethesda, Maryland.
Invited speaker and participant, Experimentell Psychologische Onderzoekschool Workshop on Exogenous and Endogenous Control of Eye Movements, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Het Trippenhuis, Amsterdam, October 2003.
Invited speaker and participant, Physical, Mental and Social Activities Affecting Cognitive Health, sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Aging and the International Longevity Center, N.Y., N.Y., October 2003.
Keynote speaker, Annual Alzheimer’s Disease Research and Education Conference. Behavior: Measurement, Intervention and Consequences. Newport Beach, CA, May 2003.
Invited speaker, Chicago land symposium on functional MRI of the brain in health and disease. Chicago, March, 2003.
Invited speaker, Second Symposium on Neuroscience, Aging & Cognition (SNAC II). N.Y., N.Y., March 2003.
Invited speaker and participant, National Institute on Aging Workshop on Environment and Genetics, Washington, D.C., February, 2003.
Invited speaker and participant, National Research Council Workshop on Technology for Adaptive Aging, Washington, D.C., January, 2003.
Keynote speaker, Third AIST Forum on Gerontechnology, sponsored by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan, December 2002.
Keynote speaker, Workshop on Space, Attention and Performance, co-sponsored by the Japanese Psychological Association (JPA) and the Institute for Human Science and Biomedical Engineering, Tsukuba, Japan, December, 2002.
Invited speaker and participant, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June-July, 2002.
Invited speaker and participant, Annual meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Seattle, Washington, July, 2002.
Invited speaker and participant, Influence of Distraction on Human Performance, Interactive Technology session, Society of Automotive Engineers: Digital Car Conference and Exhibition. Detroit, March, 2002.
Invited speaker and participant, The Future of Research on Aging, Centre De Recherche, Institut Universitaire De Geriatrie De Montreal. Montreal, April, 2002.
Invited speaker and participant, Council on Aging and Adult Development, Annual Symposium on Research on Aging (AAHPRED). San Diego, April, 2002. Co-recipient of the Herbert A. deVires Distinguished Research Award.
Invited speaker and participant, Healthy Minds: Mental Vitality Across the Lifespan, Invited symposium by the American Psychological Association’s Presidential Task Force on Science, APA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, August, 2001.
Invited speaker and participant. Third Annual Meeting of the Positive Psychology Network, Washington, D.C., October 2001.
Invited speaker and participant. 7th Annual Graylyn Conference on Women’s Health (Women’s Cognitive Health), Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, October, 2001.
Keynote speaker, International Conference on Affective Human Factors Design, Singapore, June, 2001.
Keynote speaker, Annual conference of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity (NASPSPA), St Louis, MO, June, 2001.
Invited speaker and participant, The Control of Cognitive Processing, Sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 2001.
Invited speaker and participant, Brain Mechanisms and Learning in Ageing, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Tokyo, Japan, April 2001.
Invited speaker and participant, Cognitive Aging: Neurobiological perspectives and interventions, Sponsored by the National Institute on Aging and the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Louisiana, November, 2000.
Foundation Day Gianturco Lecturer, Healthy body, healthy mind?: Aging, fitness and cognition, Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, Illinois, November, 2000.
Invited participant, White House Forum on Aging and Technology, Washington, D.C., October, 2000
Invited speaker and participant, Experimentell Psychologische Onderzoekschool Workshop on Exogenous and Endogenous Control of Visual Selection, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2000.
Invited speaker and participant, Attraction, Distraction and Action: An Interdisciplinary Conference and Workshop on Attentional Capture. Villanova University Conference Center, Pennsylvania. June 2000.
Invited speaker and participant, Interdisciplinary Workshop on Achieving Cognitive Vitality with Aging. Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Aging. Tucson, Arizona. May, 2000.
Invited speaker and participant, Human Factors Interventions for the Health Care of Older Adults, Destin, Florida, March, 2000.
Invited speaker, 15th National Motorcycle Safety Conference, Aging of America. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August, 1999.
Invited speaker, 5th World Congress on Physical Activity, Aging and Sports, Physical and mental training: Implications for cognitive functioning in old age. Orlando, Florida, August, 1999.
Invited speaker and participant, 7th meeting of the International Conference on Neuroscience (ICON), Symposium on Inhibition: Neural Mechanisms and psychophysiological manifestations. Budapest, Hungary, June 1999.
Invited speaker and participant, Seventy First Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Symposium on Spatial Attention and the Visual World. May. Chicago, Illinois, 1999.
Invited speaker, 9th World Congress of the International Organization of Psychophysiology, Symposium on Psychophysiology and Ergonomics. Taormina, Sicily, Italy, September, 1998.
Invited participant, Attention and Performance XVIII – Control of Cognitive Processes. Great Park, Windsor, England, July, 1998.
Invited speaker, International Symposium on Cognitive Changes Due to Aging and Fatigue as Revealed by Electrical Brain Activity. Institut fur Arbeitphysiologie. Dortmund, Germany, May, 1998.
Invited speaker, Symposium on Attentional Control and Aging, 1998 Cognitive Aging Conference. Atlanta, Georgia, April.
Invited speaker and participant, Workshop on Molecular, Cellular and Cognitive Effects of Exercise on the Brain, Thirty-First Annual Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowbird, Utah, January, 1998.
Invited speaker, Aging and executive control, Annual American Psychological Association Conference, Chicago, August, 1997.
Invited speaker and participant, Workshop on Applied Psychophysiology sponsored by McDonnell-Douglas, Helsinki, Finland, June, 1997.
Invited speaker and participant, Experimentell Psychologische Onderzoekschool Workshop on the Varieties of Inhibitory Control: Neural Mechanisms and Behavioral Manifestations, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May, 1997.
Invited speaker and participant, Workshop on the physiological assessment of mental workload, Bundesanstalt fur Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Berlin, December, 1996.
Invited speaker and participant, Attention and Performance XVII, Beit Oren, Israel, August, 1996.
Invited speaker, Max Planck Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Conference on Facilitatory and Inhibitory Components of Visual Selective Attention, Leipzig, Germany, November, 1995.
Invited speaker, Brooks Conference on Human Perceptual and Motor Abilities, "Attentional Control and Piloting Expertise", Brooks AFB, Texas, March, 1995.
Invited speaker, Southeastern Center for Applied Aging Research, Conference on Aging and Skill, "Aging and Multi-Task Performance", Destin, Florida, February, 1995.
Invited speaker, American Psychological Association Conference: Science Weekend, "Attentional Flexibility and Aging: Theory, Data & Applications", N.Y., N.Y., August 1995.
Invited Speaker, Experimentell Psychologische Onderzoekschool Workshop on the Psychophysiology of Mental Resources, "ERPs & Mental Workload Assessment: From Theory to Practice", Amsterdam, Netherlands, September, 1995.
Invited speaker, International Society for Brain Electromagnetic Topography, 5th International Conference, Munster, Germany, August, 1994.
Invited speaker, Annual American Psychological Society Meeting, Skill Acquisition and Automaticity: Beyond the Laboratory Door. Washington, D.C.: July, 1994.
Invited speaker, First Automation Technology and Human Performance Conference, Catholic University, Washington, D.C., April, 1994.
Invited speaker, Conference on EEG Measures in Basic and Applied Settings, Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio, November, 1993.
Invited address, National Academy of Science Workshop on Virtual Reality Research and Development, "Utility of psychophysiological measures of cognitive function in virtual reality systems", February, 1993, Washington, D.C.
Invited address, International Organization of Psychophysiology, Sixth International Congress, "Psychophysiological Measurement of Mental Workload", September, 1992. Berlin, Germany.
Invited address, European Space Agency (ESA) Conference on Astronaut Selection and Training, "Human performance in extreme environments", March, 1992. Nice, France.
Invited address, American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, "Cognition, Judgment and Performance above 20,000 feet". August, 1991. San Francisco, California.
Invited participant, Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Symposium on the psychophysiology of automatic and controlled processing. October, 1991.
Invited participant and tutorial speaker, University of Stockholm conference on Network Analysis. Stockholm, Sweden, August, 1990.
Invited participant and tutorial speaker, Commission of the European Communities Symposium on "Psychophysiological measures in transport operations". Cologne, West Germany. December, 1990.
Invited presentation as a member of a symposium entitled, "Automatic Information Processing: Theory and Applications", APA Annual Conference, Boston, 1990.
Invited presentation as a member of a symposium entitled, "Aging and Skill Acquisition", APA Annual Conference, New Orleans, 1989.
Invited speaker, APA Division of Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychologists, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., March, 1989.
Invited participant and tutorial speaker, Carmel Conference on Control
Processes and Metacognition. Carmel California, January, 1989.Colloquium speaker, Navy Personnel Research and Development Center, Neuroscience Group. San Diego, California. February, 1988.
Invited speaker, DOD Conference on Sustained Operations. Walter Reed Medical Center, Washington, D.C. September, 1987.
Invited speaker, DOD Conference on Adaptive Mediation in User-Computer Interaction. Oxnard, California. November, 1987.
Invited participant, NATO AGARD Conference on Electrical and Magnetic Activity of the Central Nervous System: Research and Clinical Applications in Aerospace Medicine. Trondheim, Norway, May, 1987.
Invited speaker, FAA/AFOSR Workshop on Operator Workload Certification in Transport Aircraft. Long Beach, California, February, 1987.
Invited participant and tutorial speaker, Carmel Conference on Individual Differences in Training and Workload. Carmel, California, January, 1987.
Invited presentation as a member of a symposium entitled, "The Interaction of Workload and Training". Human Factors Society, 30th Annual Meeting, Dayton, Ohio, September, 1986.
Invited participant, Carmel Conference on the Interaction of Training and Workload. Carmel, California, January, 1986.
Invited participant, Symposium on Operator Capacity Limits in Complex Systems: The Theory-Applications Interface, American Psychological Association, 93rd Annual Convention, Los Angeles, California, 1985.
Invited participant, Seventh Carmel Conference on Cognitive Psychophysiology: Magnetic and Electrical Event-Related Brain Activity as a Tool in the Study of Cognitive Function. Carmel, California, January 1985.
Workshop entitled "Event Related Brain Potentials and Human Engineering", Human Factors Society, 26th Annual Meeting, Norfolk, Virginia, 1983.
Invited participant, Workshop on Neurotoxicity Testing in Human Populations. Co-sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Rougemont, North Carolina, October, 1983.
Invited presentation as a member of a symposium entitled, "The Event-Related Brain Potential as a Metric for the Study of Human Information Processing". Eastern Psychological Association, 52nd Annual Meeting, New York, New York, April,1981.
Invited participant, Fourth Carmel Conference on Cognitive Psychophysiology. Carmel, California, January, 1981.
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