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 Paul B. Baltes lecture is a joint initiative of the psychology institutes in Berlin and Potsdam (Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität, Technische Universität, Universität Potsdam, 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]
• 2018 Denny Borsboom: "Network approaches to psychopathology".^[9]
• 2019 David Poeppel: "The Auditory System and the Motor System, in Time".^[10]
• 2020 Nora Newcombe: "Affordances and Representations: Understanding Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking and Spatial Reorientation".^[11]
• 2021 Peter Hancock: “Time to Think of Time”.^[12]
• 2022 Stephan Lewandowsky: “Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy”.^[13]

References

1. "Margret M. And Paul B. Baltes Foundation".
2. Frensch, Peter A.; Schwarzer, Ralf (2010-06-17). Cognition and Neuropsychology: International Perspectives on Psychological Science. ISBN 978-1-136-92998-4.
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6. "The Developmental Origins of Selective Trust — Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften".^{[permanent dead link]}
7. "Neural Implants for Therapy and Enhancement — Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften".^{[permanent dead link]}
8. "Berlin School of Mind and Brain: Mind-Brain Lecture: Olaf Hauk (Cambridge)".
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10. https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/media/pdf/835/poster_baltes_lecture_2019.pdf ^{[dead link]}
11. "Paul B. Baltes Lecture 2020".
12. "Time to Think of Time". www.bbaw.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-25.
13. "Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy". www.bbaw.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-08-25.