Prof. Nienke van Atteveldt from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is visiting Jyväskylä and will give a lecture titled “Proving or improving yourself? Neurocognitive interplay between motivation, learning behavior and achievement” on May 22. You are encouraged to attend the live presentation, but the lecture will be broadcast on Zoom as well – see the link below.
Prof. van Atteveldt is one of the foremost experts in the field of educational neuroscience and currently leads two ERC-funded research projects.
Her research addresses questions such as student resilience and why certain adolescents avoid or embrace challenges. In her research program, learning is approached as a multi-level phenomenon, taking into account the neurobiology of learning, which is affected by a child’s individual learning history, beliefs and goals, as well as their social environment.
