Adults often don’t know how to talk about race with children, and I-LABS’ Onnie Rogers is trying to help. Rogers, a research assistant professor at I-LABS and in the UW College of Education, uses in-depth interviews to reveal how race and gender stereotypes affect Black children and how they think about themselves. Kids will tell her that skin color “doesn’t … Read More

The I-LABS Outreach Training Modules have been included in a national list of early literacy resources compiled by the nonprofit think tank New America and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. Designed as an interactive map, “Integrating Technology in Early Literacy” is meant to show the scope of how technology is being used by early learning programs. It … Read More

Above: CNN’s Nick Glass interviews Andrea Stocco, an assistant professor at I-LABS and in the UW department of psychology. A UK-based reporting team from CNN International came to Seattle this fall to film the “brain-to-brain” experiment, a collaboration between I-LABS’ Andrea Stocco and Chantel Prat and UW Computer Science and Engineering’s Rajesh Rao. The nearly 5-minute segment reenacts the research team’s recently … Read More

How is it possible that in just a few short years a babbling baby becomes a talking toddler? In the November 2015 issue of “Scientific American,” I-LABS’ co-director Patricia Kuhl describes the brain mechanisms underlying the amazing yet fleeting gift that all infants have to quickly learn language. “I still marvel, after four decades of studying child development, how a child can … Read More