Dr. Howard R. Moskowitz founded Mind Genomics Associates in 2014, to promote the development and use of the new science of Mind Genomics. The science creates an archival and action-oriented database for knowledge about how people think about the aspects of their daily life. The science is used in business to drive 1:1 sales and marketing, and in social research to understand what is important, and what should be communicated to citizens of a country for socially relevant issues.

Dr. Moskowitz is also chairman of Mind Genomics Advisors, a consulting firm which provides innovative, customized predictive analytics for a variety of organizations, using the Mind Genomics platform.

Dr. Moskowitz is a well-known experimental psychologist in the field of psychophysics and creator of world-class market research technology. In 1969, Dr. Moskowitz earned a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Harvard University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Queens College (CUNY) with degrees in mathematics and psychology.

Dr. Howard Moskowitz received awards for his innovative contributions to the field of marketing research. He received the “2012 Edison Award for Innovation” (Bronze Award - Applied Technology/Research Tools category) for the creation of Mind Genomics®, the aforementioned internationally-recognized science using experimental design and predictive analytics to uncover individual human preferences for products, services, ideas and social issues. Dr. Moskowitz has also received: the “2010 Walston Chubb Award for Innovation” across all sciences from Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society; the Advertising Research Foundation’s first “Research Innovation Award” in 2006; the 2004 “David R. Peryam Award" from ASTM for outstanding contributions in basic and applied sensory science, and ESOMAR (European Society of Market Research) Awards in 2001, 2003, 2004 & 2006 for research innovation.

“Seventy years in science and education lets me recognize merit in new methods. To rephrase Cuba Gooding in Jerry Maguire: “show me the data.” PlayWisely’s planned research program can make this technology a serious contender for reforming American early education.”

Former Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Children’s Progress; Emeritus Professor and Director, Psychophysics Laboratory, Columbia University Dr. Galanter is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Quondam Director of the Psychophysics Laboratory at Columbia University.

A pioneer scientist in the field of technology in education, he holds MA and PhD degrees in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and an honors BA from Swarthmore College.

The late Dr. Galanter’s distinguished academic career includes positions held at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, the University of Washington, and Columbia University. He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and served as Chairman of the Committee on Learning at the Salk Institute with eminent scientists James Watson, Jacob Bronowski, and Jonas Salk.

“Patty Hannan has built the innovative PlayWisely® curriculum based on principles of developmental and cognitive science. PlayWisely® engages children in systematic play activities that exercise core cognitive processes. Cognitive stimulation is a significant predictor of academic achievement and a host of positive outcomes later in life. Indeed, good parenting involves providing an environment where parents play with their children in ways that promote cognitive and emotional growth, that is, where parents play wisely with their children.”

Center for BrainHealth, University of Texas at Dallas School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Dr. Michael Motes is currently working as a faculty scientist at the Center for BrainHealth and the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and as adjunct faculty in the Clinical Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. His research examines the brain bases of differences in basic cognitive abilities, particularly the relationships between basic and higher-level abilities, and he has explored the brain bases of changes in cognitive abilities associated with development and normal Aging, Dementia, Depression, Gulf War Syndrome, Autism, and Cognitive Training. He has published in top journals in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience and has presented his work at major national and international conferences. He is currently funded by the Middle School Brain Years Initiative at the Center for BrainHealth, where he and Center researchers are investigating developmental changes in the brain bases of reasoning abilities and the effects of a Strategic Memory and Reasoning Training program on these changes.- Dr. Motes received his Ph.D. from the Doctoral Program in Experimental Psychology at Texas Christian University. While a graduate student, he studied factors affecting changes in attention and spatial memory over time, and following graduate school, he held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey where he studied the role of basic cognitive abilities, particularly visual-spatial and visual-imagery abilities, in the performance of higher level cognitive tasks, like learning science concepts and navigating real and virtual environments.