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Meeting 4
Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences Meeting
February 25, 1999 - February 26, 1999
Sheraton City Centre Hotel
Mt. Vernon Room
1143 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
National Academy of Sciences Building
Room 180
2100 C St. NW
Washington D.C.
Agenda:
FEBRUARY 25, 1999 SHERATON CITY CENTRE HOTEL MT. VERNON ROOM
9:00 AM - Noon Closed Session
Noon - 5:30 PM Open Session
Lunch: Noon -2:15 PM
Speaker: Dr. John Bransford
How People Learn
2:30-5:30PM
Sponsor Activities:
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Dr. G. Reid Lyon, Branch Chief
National Institute on Drug Abuse Conference on Addiction
Dr. Jaylan Turkkan
Building Bridges Training Project - update
Dr. Terry Pellmar, Institute of Medicine
NRC/NAS Reports of activities in Behavioral Sciences
Race conference - Faith Mitchell, Division Director
Barbara Boyle Torrey, Executive Director, CBASSE
Workplace Injury
Ann Mavor, Study Director
5:30 PM Adjourn
FEBRUARY 26, 1999 NAS MAIN BUILDING, ROOM 180
9:00 – Noon
Discussion of two Social Security Administration Projects
SSA/Mental Retardation Disability Determination
SSA/Visual disability determination
Discussion of Possible NSF Project - Biocomplexity
Cognition and Nutrition
Anne Petersen, Chair
Barbara Torrey, CBASSE Executive Director
Barney Cohen, Committee on Populations
Discussion of emotion area
NIMH conference and new Program Announcement
Closed Session Noon to 4:00 PM
4:00 Adjourn
Closed Session Summary Posted After the Meeting
The following committee members were present at the closed sessions of the meeting:
Anne Peterson
Stephen Ceci
Eugene Emory
Rochel Gelman
Julian Hochberg
Anthony Jackson
Peter Lennie
Marcia Linn
Michael Rutter
Edward Smith
James
Stigler
John Swets
William Yost
The following topics were discussed in the closed sessions:
The Board discussed new projects for the National Institute on Aging and the
Office of Behavioral & Social Science Research of the National Institutes of
Health.
Progress reports were received for areas of development and potential
projects were discussed.
The following materials (written documents) were made available to the committee in the closed sessions:
Brown, J.L., and E. Pollitt
1996 Malnutrition, poverty and intellectual development. Scientific American
Feb: 38-43.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
1999 71st meeting agenda. National Institute on Drug Abuse Web Site.
WWW document: http://www.nida.nih.gov/NACDA/NACDA299.html, [accessed February 4.]
National Institute of Mental Health and the Library of Congress
1998 Discovering Our Selves: The Science of Emotion: A Public
Conference. Washington, DC: National Institutes of Health. Pamphlet prepared
for a conference.
National Research Council
1999 How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. J.D. Bransford,
A.L. Brown, and R.R. Cocking, eds. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
Social Security Administration
1998 Disability Evaluation Under social Security. Washington,
DC: Social Security Administration, Office of Disability. SSA Publication No.
64-039.
Singer, B.H., and K.G. Manton
1998 The effects of health changes on projections of health service needs for
the elderly population of the United States. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 95:15618-15622.
Date of posting of Closed Session Summary (on CPS): March 11, 1999
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