Speaker Biographies Thomas Carr, Ph.D. Michigan State University. Has conducted important research on the development of automaticity (in part together with Mike Posner), in particular for the case of reading. BJ Casey, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology. Successfully applies behavioral, genetic, and neuroimaging analyses to the development of attentional functions in children. Dr. Stanislas Dehaene. Institut National de la Santé, (INSERM), Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot, France. Has conducted important neuro-modeling and neuro-imaging work on mathematical skills, executive functions and consciousness. John Duncan, Ph.D. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge. Widely known for his work on attentional systems. More recently, he has turned towards neuroimaging analyses of the interrelationship between frontal functions and general intelligence. Martha J. Farah, Ph. D. Professor of Psychology and Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania. Renown for her neuro-cognitive analyses of various cognitive faculties (e.g., visual imagery, face processing, semantic memory, executive control). Her recent interest is in the way low social-economic status influences frontal-lobe development. Mark Johnson, Ph.D. School of Psychology, Birkbeck College. Has provided careful analyses of the way in which skills such as face processing are driven by experience versus innate factors. Ray Klein, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University. Has worked extensively on mechanisms of spatial attention using behavioral and neuroscience techniques. Helen Neville, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, University of Oregon. Has provided some of the most compelling pieces of evidence to date for massive experience-driven brain re-organization as well as their consequences on behavior. Marcus Raichle, M.D. Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine. Has been instrumental in developing brain-imaging techniques to analyze cognitive processes. More recently he has become involved in analyzing the neural basis of emotional processes. Mary Rothbart, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor, University of Oregon. Is internationally renown for her work on developmental and individual differences in temperament. Together with Mike Posner she is exploring how individual differences in temperament and self-regulation can be traced to developing attentional systems.   Primary Organizers Dr. Ulrich Mayr (Associate Professor, University of Oregon) does research in the areas of attention, learning, and executive control, both from a general and a life-span perspective. He was key organizer of the 1999 conference ''Aging and Executive Control'' in Potsdam, Germany. He also served as main editor for the resulting book, published by Psychology Press. Ulrich Mayr is on the editorial board of Psychology and Aging and has ample experience as reviewer of journal articles and grants. Edward Awh, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, University of Oregon) does research in the areas of attention and working memory and has ample experience as a journal reviewer. He is also the co-chair of the departmental colloquium committee at the University of Oregon. Steven Keele, Ph.D. (Professor Emeritus, University of Oregon) has been and still is associated with work on learning and control of action. Steve Keele has began his career as a post-doc with Mike Posner and is ever since a close personal friend of him. Steve Keele has served as co-editor of a book on motor control published by Academic Press. He has served on the editorial board of Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and Memory and Cognition,