Arthur L. Costa, Ed.D. is an Emeritus Professor of Education at California State University, Sacramento and Co-founder of the Institute for Intelligent Behavior. He has served as a classroom teacher, a curriculum consultant, an assistant superintendent for instruction, the Director of Educational Programs for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and was the National President of A.S.C.D. from 1988 to 1989
Author of numerous journal articles, Dr. Costa has also edited and authored or coauthored 10 books. These include Developing Minds: A Resource Book for Teaching Thinking, The Habits of Mind Series and the trilogy, Process as Content.
Louis John "Lou" Cozolino, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University, California. Dr. Cozolino holds degrees in philosophy and theology, in addition to his doctorate in clinical psychology. He has conducted empirical research in schizophrenia, child abuse, and the long-term impact of stress.
Recently, Dr.Cozolino’s interests have turned to a synthesis of the biobehavioral sciences and psychotherapy. He is the author of The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters on various topics. His most rencent book is The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain. He maintains a clinical and consulting practice in Los Angeles.
David E. Drew, Ph.D. is Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University and holds the Joseph B. Platt Chair, with concurrent appointments in Executive Management, Psychology, and Mathematical Sciences. He is a sociologist who studies the development of individual potential and the growth of organizations, especially educational organizations.
Dr. Drew has written 8 books, including Aptitude Revisited: Rethinking Math and Science Education for America’s Next Century. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1996). He has also published and numerous technical reports and monographs, articles and reviews.
Joaquin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D. is Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Brain Research Institute in the School of Medicine at UCLA. His research focuses on studies of the cortical mechanisms of cognitive functions. The objective of these studies is to gain better understanding of the dysfunction of the cerebral cortex in neurological and mental illness impairing cognition.
Dr. Fuster has made major contributions to cognitive neuroscience for over 40 years and is the recipient of many honors and awards in the United States and Europe. His list of publications is extensive. He is also the author of several books, most recently Cortex and Mind: Unifying Cognition, Oxford University Press, 2003.
Elkhonon Goldberg, Ph.D. is Director, Institute of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Performance, New York, with prior appointments over a period of more than twenty five years in psychiatry and neurology in the United States, Israel and Australia. One of his primary research interests is the executive functions of the human brain.
In addition to his numerous peer reviewed reports, articles and chapters, Dr. Goldberg has written three books. The Executive Brain: Frontal Lobes and the Civilized Mind. Oxford University Press, 2002 has been translated into 11 languages and The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older. Gotham Books, 2005, has been translated into 9 languages.
Lynn Nadel, Ph.D. is Regents’ Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona. He is a pioneer in linking neuroanatomy and physiology of the human brain to behavior. His research is concerned with the role of the hippocampal formation in learning and memory, and focuses on its particular role in spatial cognition.
Dr. Nadel has published more than 130 scientific articles and books. Most recently he was editor-in-chief of a four volume Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (Nature Publishing Group). Over the past 30 years, Nadel has held appointments at universities, medical schools and research institutes in 5 countries.
William Spady, Ph.D. is Director of Breakthrough Learning Systems in Colorado. He is a leading authority on Outcomes Based Education and a key developer of the "heartLight" model of learning.
Dr.Spady has been the Director of the National Center for the Improvement of Education for the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), a Vice President of the American Education Research Association (AERA) and has served on the Graduate Faculties at Harvard University and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Euducation.
Robert Sylwester, Ph.D. is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Oregon who focuses on the educational implications of new developments in science and technology.
He has written 20 books and curricular programs and 150+ journal articles. His most recent books are A Biological Brain in A Cultural Classroom (2003, Corwin Press) and How to Explain a Brain: An Educator’s Handbook of Brain Terms and Cognitive Processes (2005, Corwin Press) . The Education Press Association of America has given him two Distinguished Achievement Awards for his syntheses of cognitive science research, published in Educational Leadership.
