The baby brain: Learning in leaps and bounds

Learn how the baby brain changes from pregnancy to toddlerhood, and what parents, teachers and policymakers can do to ensure kids are set up for success.

Speakers:

• Miriam Calderón, Chief Policy Officer, Zero to Three
• Damien Fair, Cognitive Neuroscientist, University of Minnesota

Moderated by Emily Underwood, Science Content Producer, Knowable Magazine

More from Knowable Magazine

• Making and breaking connections in the brain
• How maternal mood shapes the developing brain
• How learning happens in the brains of sleeping babes

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• Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Era of Networks and Big Data: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats 
• Cost-Effective Early Childhood Development Programs from Preschool to Third Grade
• Prenatal Developmental Origins of Future Psychopathology: Mechanisms and Pathways

About: This event is part of an ongoing series of live events and science journalism from Knowable Magazine and Annual Reviews, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to synthesizing and integrating knowledge for the progress of science and the benefit of society. “The baby brain: Learning in leaps in bounds” is supported by a grant from the Dana Foundation. a private philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing neuroscience and society.