Co-Director, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences; Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington; The Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning; Recipient of the “William James Lifetime Achievement Award”, the “George A. Miller Prize” in Cognitive Neuroscience, the American Psychological Association’s “Distinguished Scientific Contributions Award”, and the “Karl Spencer Lashley Award” from the American Philosophical Society; Co-Author, “Brain Myelination at 7 Months of Age Predicts Later Language Development” (2022, Neuroimage), Developing Minds in the Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education (2019), How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood (2001), and The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us About the Mind (2000)
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The Social Brain: Language, Culture, and Social Interaction in Learning