The Paul B. Baltes lecture is held annually by the

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. The lectures commenced in 2008 and are named after

Paul Baltes Paul B. Baltes (18 June 1939 – 7 November 2006) was a German psychologist whose broad scientific agenda was devoted to establishing and promoting the life-span orientation of human development. He was also a theorist in the field of the psycholo ...

, the

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developmental psychologist. Each year the Academy selects a leading international scientist to present the lecture which commemorates Paul Baltes` achievements in psychological research and his contributions to psychology. The Paul B. Baltes lecture is a joint initiative of the psychology institutes in Berlin and Potsdam ( Freie Universität,

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, Technische Universität,

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) and is supported by the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation.

The Lectures

* 2008 Michael Posner: "Executive attention: Its origins, development, and functions". * 2009

Lynn Hasher Lynn Hasher is a cognitive scientist known for research on attention, working memory, and inhibitory control. Hasher is Professor Emerita in the Psychology Department at the University of Toronto and Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Insti ...

: "Age-Related Consequences of Attention Regulation and Dysregulation". * 2010 John Nesselroade: "The Person-Oriented Perspective in Psychology". * 2011 Andrew Meltzoff: "The Development of Social Cognition: Imitation, Cultural Stereotypes and Identity Formation in Children". * 2012 Jutta Heckhausen: "A Motivational Theory of Life-Span Development". * 2013 Wendy Rogers: "Human-Robot Interaction:Understanding the Potential of Robots for Older Adults". * 2014 Brent W. Roberts * 2015 Ray Dolan: "Circuits for Social Cognition". * 2016 Diane Poulin-Dubois: "The developmental origins of selective trust". * 2017

Kevin Warwick Kevin Warwick (born 9 February 1954) is an English engineer and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Coventry University. He is known for his studies on direct interfaces between computer systems and the human nervous system, and has also done ...

: "Neural implants for therapy and enhancement". * 2018

Denny Borsboom Denny Borsboom (born November 9, 1973) is a Dutch psychologist and psychometrician. He has been a professor of psychology at the University of Amsterdam since 2013. His work has included applying network theory to the study of mental disorders and ...

: "Network approaches to psychopathology". * 2019 David Poeppel: "The Auditory System and the Motor System, in Time". * 2020 Nora Newcombe: "Affordances and Representations: Understanding Mental Rotation, Perspective Taking and Spatial Reorientation". * 2021 Peter Hancock: “Time to Think of Time”. * 2022 Stephan Lewandowsky: “Demagoguery, Technology, and Cognition: Addressing the Threats to Democracy”.

References

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