Story time is brain-building time, even for babies who aren’t speaking yet. When it comes to the importance of reading to kids, Dr. Seuss explains it well: “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go,” the beloved author wrote in The Cat in the Hat. And literacy … Read More

Staff from the State of Washington and the City of Seattle learned about the innovative work at I-LABS during a visit held July 19. Patricia Kuhl and Andrew Meltzoff, co-directors of the Institute, described brain development and I-LABS discoveries on how young children learn. Visitors also toured the MEG brain imaging facility and heard from the I-LABS Outreach team about how the Institute translates … Read More

Four undergraduate students started their summer internship this week at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences. Photo: Miriam Donner, Will Hodge, Riley MacAulay, Maria Venneri. With interests in psychology, neuroscience and education, the interns will spend the month of July working with I-LABS researchers and honing professional development skills. The I-LABS Outreach team organizes the internship each year with the goal … Read More

The White House Regional Summit on Dual Language Learners, held June 2 in Miami, represents increasing national interest in expanding high-quality early learning opportunities for dual language learners—children who are learning more than one language at the same time. A growing number of young children in the U.S. have a home language other than English, but early childhood programs often … Read More

Learn the science behind the linguistic genius of babies, and get tips on how to nurture multilingual development in young children. Very early childhood is the best time to learn multiple languages. Children who experience two languages from birth typically become native speakers of both—something that rarely happens in adulthood. How do babies do it? At I-LABS, I study brain … Read More

Six reasons why working in I-LABS research is like working in theater, provided by a special guest contributor. At first blush, you might think that all that young children and theatrical actors have in common is a tendency to be, shall we say, a touch dramatique? So when I-LABS recently had the pleasure of hosting a student with acting experience, we … Read More

Screens are everywhere. And young children are spending more and more time using screen media. But how do children learn from them? I-LABS recently shared the science behind how children learn–and don’t learn!–from screen media at the “ed tech mecca” conference South By Southwest EDU, #SXSWedu.