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Scientific Learning Corporation’s Founders Discussion
This blog is an edited transcript of a panel discussion with the four neuroscientists who developed Fast ForWord and founded the Scientific Learning Corporation.
It took place at the Scientific Learning 20th Anniversary Visionary Conference in San Diego, March The scientists are:
- Dr Michael Merzenich
- Dr Paula Tallal
- Dr Bill Jenkins
- Dr Steve Miller
The discussion covered the history of the science that underlies the Fast ForWord programs, starting with Dr Paula Tallal's research in
It was a wide-ranging discussion that looked both back to the past and also the future of educational neuroscience.
Topics mentioned included:
- Language disorders
- Acoustically modified speech
- Language based learning problems
- Phonological awareness
- Translating scientific knowledge into action in classrooms and clinics
- Cochlear implant research
- Brain plasticity
- Scientific Learning Corporation
- Fast ForWord
- Dyslexia
- Autism
Dr Paula Tallal’s paper on the temporal processing of language was published in It revolutionised the way we think about language problems as having an auditory perceptual component to them. But what led from that research to actually thinking about developing an intervention?
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Michael Merzenich
American neuroscientist and professor
Michael Matthias Merzenich[2] (MURR-zə-nik;[3] born in Lebanon, Oregon) is an American neuroscientist and professoremeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors (Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip Bard) and refined them using dense micro-electrode mapping techniques. Using this, he definitively showed there to be multiple somatotopic maps of the body in the postcentral sulcus,[4][5] and multiple tonotopic maps of the acoustic inputs in the superior temporal plane.[6]
He led the cochlear implant team at UCSF,[1][7] which transferred its technology to Advanced Bionics,[8] and their version is the Clarion cochlear implant.[9] He collaborated with Bill Jenkins and Gregg Recanzone to demonstrate sensory maps are labile into adulthood in animals performing operant sensory tasks.[10][11][12] He collaborated with Paula Tallal, Bill Jenkins, and Steve Miller to form the company Scientific Learning.[1][13] This was based on Fast ForWord software they co-invented that pro