Dr. Naja Ferjan Ramirez spoke at TEDxLlubljana in her native country of Slovenia. Ferjan Ramirez is an expert in the study of bilingualism and its development. Watch the talk here, beginning at 1:02:32.
New Research Explores Children’s Race and Gender Identities
A study by I-LABS Onnie Rogers provides a glimpse into how children perceive their social categories.“ Kids are thinking about race and gender, and not just in terms of being able to identify with these social categories, but also what they mean and why they matter.” Read more here
Patricia Kuhl Recognized In Seattle Magazine’s Hall of Fame
Patricia Kuhl has been recognized by Seattle Magazine as one of the “trailblazers who have transformed Seattle in extraordinary ways.” Through her groundbreaking research in language and brain development, Kuhl showed how early language exposure alters the brain and determined that “parentese” (a natural way parents speak to babies) lays the foundation for infants to distinguish sounds and understand language. Read … Read More
Andrea Stocco’s Brain-to-Brain Research is Basis for Short Play
See “Rift” by Kristina Sutherland Rowell, October 14-16 Andrea Stocco participated in the Infinity Box Theater Project’s “Thought Experiments on the Question of Being Human.” The project consists of scientists conversing with playwrights to come up with an original play examining the question of what it means to be human in light of current developments in science and technology. Andrea’s play, titled … Read More
Engaging children in STEM
New research finds that STEM should be social! I-LABS researchers Andrew Meltzoff, Allison Master, and Sapna Cheryan discovered that children who completed STEM activities as groups reported that the activities were more fun and achieved more success than children who participated in the STEM activities individually. To learn more about making STEM social, read the Conversation here.
Adrian KC Lee awarded an NSF Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience grant
I-LABS faculty member Adrian KC Lee and his colleague Emily Fox (Statistics, Computer Science & Engineering) have been awarded an NSF Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) grant, inspired by work supported by a joint postdoctoral fellowship. The grant, “Modeling of Interacting Time Series to Discover Cortical Networks Associated with Auditory Processing Dysfunction”, grew out of the research of UWIN … Read More
UW Perspectives features 3 I-LABS brain scientists
The August issue of UW Perspectives was focused on brain research. Not surprisingly, three I-LABS faculty members’ research was featured in the issue: Jason Yeatman’s work on the roots of dyslexia, and Andrea Stocco and Chantel Prat’s pioneering brain-to-brain communication research. Read the issue of Perspectives here.
Feeling included in a group increases preschoolers’ engagement in STEM
Early education in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics, as they’re known, is critical for boosting later success in school and attracting students to occupations in those fields. But little has been done to optimize STEM curriculum for preschoolers or help children seek out and enjoy STEM tasks. New research from I-LABS explores the social cues important for increasing … Read More
Predicting rate of second language learning
New research shows that brain ‘resting state’ is predictive of how easily adults can pick up a second language. Is there a way to predict the aptitude for second language learning by adults? Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) graduate student Brianna Yamasaki explains a new study designed to answer this question. Yamasaki and colleagues measured brain activity from … Read More
Ask I-LABS Outreach: Finding Surprising Moments to Read to Kids
How can busy parents fit enriching, brain-building moments that come from reading to children into an already packed schedule? One parent talks about how she made reading to her daughter part of her routine. My enthusiasm for reading goes back a long way. My father likes to tell the story of how I used to toddle up to him as a young … Read More