Patricia K. Kuhl - The Baby Brain

BrainMind Summit hosted at Stanford

Patricia K. Kuhl, PhD
Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington
http://ilabs.uw.edu/institute-faculty/bio/i-labs-patricia-k-kuhl-phd

Interested in human learning, Dr. Khul highlighted potential ways to leverage insights from neuroscience to revolutionize the way children are taught. She discussed the neuroplasticity of children, especially in infancy, and how their brains are easily impacted by social interactions. Dr. Kuhl presented an experiment that uses MEG scans to monitor sensory and motor-sensory brain activation in infants, noting their quick adaptability in Mandarin only when in live interaction versus television or audio-listening. Dr. Kuhl also highlighted her lab’s engagement with discovering effective ways to foster bilingualism in babies.
Patricia Kuhl Bio:

Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl holds the Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning, Co-Director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Director of the NSF Science of Learning Center, and Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington. She is internationally recognized for her research on early language and bilingual brain development, for pioneering brain measures on young children, and studies that show how young children learn. Dr. Kuhl’s work has played a major role in demonstrating how early exposure to language alters the brain and she has presented her work at two White House conferences (Clinton White House in 1997 and Bush White House in 2001).

Dr. Kuhl is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Rodin Academy, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Acoustical Society of America, the American Psychological Society, and the Cognitive Science Society.In 2008, Dr. Kuhl was awarded the Gold Medal of the Acoustical Society of America for her work on early learning and brain development. In November 2011, Dr. Kuhl was awarded the IPSEN Foundation’s Jean-Louis Signoret Neuropsychology Prize, and in 2013 she received the William James Lifetime Achievement award. In 2015, she was awarded the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience. Dr. Kuhl earned her Bachelor's in Speech Science and Psychology at St. Cloud State University, a Master's in Speech Science and a PhD in Speech Science and Psychology at the University of Minnesota.

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