3rd INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS of EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES and DEVELOPMENT   
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                                              PALACIO DE MIRAMAR                                                      SAN SEBASTIAN, 24-26 JUNIO, 2015
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 Sylvie Droit-Volet
Professor in Developmental Psychology, Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Université Blaise Pascal, FRANCIA
Sylvie Droit-Volet is a professor in developmental psychology. She is a key contributor in the study of timing in children, having already published 107 articles in numerous international or national journals. Most of these manuscripts were on development of temporal abilities in young children, including recent papers on motor rhythm and sensorimotor synchronization

INVITED SYMPOSIUM ABSTRACT
Timing and motor rhythm in children
During childhood, one of the most important abilities is to efficiently coordinate actions with external events. This coordination requires timing abilities in order to produce actions at the right time, neither too late nor too early. Four researchers, who share a common interest in studying the abilities in children of different ages to synchronize their behaviors to external tempi, will contribute to this symposium. The first communication - “Rhythmical synchronization in newborns” - (Joëlle Provasi) will present the results on the abilities of newborns to synchronize different rhythmical motor behaviours (sucking, stepping and crying) with external auditory tempi. The second - “Young children’s difficulties in switching from rhythm production to temporal interval production” - (Anne Bodin-Bègue) will report a study on the abilities of children aged 3 and 5 years to change their tapping rhythm, to progressive switch between rhythm production and time production with long inter-taps intervals (>1s). The third - “Sensorimotor synchronization and rhythm discrimination in children with cerebellar lesions” - (Pierre Zélanti) will present 2 studies on disturbances in sensorimotor synchronization and rhythm discrimination in children with cerebellar lesions due to a cerebellar medulloblastoma. The last communication - “Emotion and Sensorimotor synchronization in children” - (Sylvie Droit-Volet) will be on emotion and temporal synchronization in children aged from 3 to 8 years.