Paul B. Baltes Lecture

The Paul B. Baltes lecture is held annually by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The lectures commenced in 2008 and are named after Paul Baltes, the German developmental psychologist.^[1]

Each year the Academy selects a leading international scientist to present the lecture which commemorates Paul Baltes` achievements in psychological research and his contributions to psychology.

The lecture series is hosted by the Free University of Berlin, the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Potsdam in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and is supported by the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation.

The Lectures

• 2008 Michael Posner: "Executive attention: Its origins, development, and functions".^[2]
• 2009 Lynn Hasher: "Age-Related Consequences of Attention Regulation and Dysregulation".
• 2010 John Nesselroade: "The Person-Oriented Perspective in Psychology".
• 2011 Andrew Meltzoff: "The Development of Social Cognition: Imitation, Cultural Stereotypes and Identity Formation in Children".^[3]
• 2012 Jutta Heckhausen: "A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development".
• 2013 Wendy Rogers: "Human-Robot Interaction:Understanding the Potential of Robots for Older Adults".
• 2014 Brent W. Roberts
• 2015 Ray Dolan: "Circuits for Social Cognition".^[4][5]
• 2016 Diane Poulin-Dubois: "The developmental origins of selective trust".^[6]
• 2017 Kevin Warwick: "Neural implants for therapy and enhancement".^[7][8]

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