Uncovering the mechanisms through which early experiences affect future learning.
How what children do with their hands impacts how they learn to see.
Learning starts early.
Investigating how early experiences provide the foundation for later educational success. Our research focuses on the ways in which sensorimotor development shapes the building blocks of literacy, which in turn influences future achievement.
Learning takes time.
Learning occurs over multiple timescales: sometimes learning takes many times over a lifetime and sometimes it just takes one time. We use dense longitudinal studies to capture the process of learning at different timescales.
Learning in early childhood is different from learning in adulthood.
The mechanisms underlying learning change throughout the lifespan. At the LAND LAB, we investigate learning in childhood and later in the lifespan to map learning processes to a window of time in the lifespan.
Learning involves the brain.
LANDLAB relies heavily on functional and anatomical MRI methodologies to assess brain changes associated with development and learning. We seek to understand how the brain supports learning throughout the lifespan