主讲人：Werner Sommer教授（德国柏林洪堡大学）

讲座时间：2025年3月21日（周五）下午13:30—15:00

讲座地点：宁波大学西校区教育楼413会议厅

主讲人简介：

Prof. Dr. Werner Sommer served as Professor of Biological Psychology and Psychophysiology at Humboldt University Berlin until his retirement in 2018, after which he continued research with collaborators in Germany, China, Iran, Kenya, Malaysia, Poland, and Spain. His research areas are diverse, such as spoken and written language perception and reading, face recognition, emotion, the Psychology of meals and food preferences, and individual differences in social cognition and cognitive functions. Apart from behavioral measures he mainly employs EEG recordings but also other research methods. Werner Sommer has received numerous research grants; currently he holds adjunct professorship at National University of Malaysia and serves as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Hong Kong Baptist University.

讲座内容简介：

Well-developed executive functions contribute strongly to a good and successful life. Executive functions serve the regulation of behavior when routine actions are not sufficient. Although the classification and structure of executive functions is still debated, working memory, inhibition and cognitive flexibility are commonly accepted as main components. Of particular importance is the ability to inhibit predominant but unwanted or detrimental response tendencies and replace them with more appropriate actions. Recently, a novel focus has been on so-called hot executive functions that concern affective and social aspects of behavior control. The quality of executive functions of an individual depends on many factors and brain systems. Impaired executive functions have been shown to contribute to many behavioral and psychological problems, e.g., drug dependency, overweight, and delinquency. Therefore, researchers have sought ways to improve executive functions by training procedures. The success of these approaches is very diverse; most successful are combinations of movement exercises and mindfulness.