Melina Uncapher Biography

Melina Uncapher is a neuroscientist with 14 yrs of experience at the forefront of learning and memory research with a focus on understanding how attention affects learning. Recently she has turned her efforts to applying research to real-world problems by leading research and outreach programs in the fields of education technology and law. Education: Melina partners with educators throughout the country to design implement and assess education innovations that are grounded in the science of learning. She leads a multi-university Science of Learning network funded by NSF with investigators at Stanford UC Berkeley and UCSF to study how executive function contributes to academic achievement. On the outreach side she co-founded and is CEO of a science-for-good nonprofit that arms educators and students with practical tools based on the science of learning. Melina investigates whether technology and media use are associated with cognitive and neural changes. She organized and co-chaired a global conference for the National Academy of Sciences on children and technology in Oct 2015 and is a founding board member of the Institute of Digital Media and the Child Development. Law: Melina works to bridge the fields of neuroscience and law also via research and outreach. As a MacArthur Scholar she supports the foundation's efforts to use neuroscience to guide law policy and practice. Funded by the foundation she has led multi-year neuroimaging studies investigating memory issues that have relevance to legal policy and practice. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Science & Law lectures regularly at law schools and advises law enforcement officials.

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