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Patricia K. Kuhl, PhD

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)

Events

The Science of Learning

Sheraton NY Times Square Hotel or Virtually via Zoom  April 25-27, 2025

Keynote Address II: Developing Teen Minds in a Digital Age: Research and Innovation Toward a Future Science of Learning

Teaching Social Brains

The Sheraton NY Times Square, New York, NY or Virtually via Zoom  April 21-23, 2023

Keynote Address II: The Social Brain, Language, and Learning

Social-Emotional Brains in Schools

Virtual Conference  November 7-8, 2020

Early Development, Social Brains, & Language

The Social Brain: Language, Culture, and Social Interaction in Learning