University of Pennsylvania The Changing Brain Lab

Cognitive Skill Instruction is a method of teaching aimed at improving the essential qualities your brain uses to think, listen, and learn. Here’s how we suggest you implement it for your child!

Persistence is a skill we can help cultivate in young children. Here’s how Dr. Julia Leonard, former Postdoc at The Changing Brain and current Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale suggests you do it! Stay tuned for more monthly infographics!

A big thank you to Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse for having the Changing Brain Lab at your Healthy Halloween 2019 event! 👻 Thank you to everyone who stopped by our table, Sophie and Jamie had a great time playing with you and talking to you about brains!🧠

We are now recruiting 3-year-olds! Click here to learn more: https://is.gd/thechangingbrainlab

If you are interested in participating in our research, please fill out the form found at this link!

Participate Research with ChildrenWe are currently recruiting 4-7 year olds to participate in a two part study. In the first part of the study, your child will play some games with us while you fill out some questionnaires. The second part of this study is an imaging portion where your child would come back to…

Babies learn to try hard by watching adults! Check out this really cool finding by Julia Leonard
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6357/1290

Infants make more attempts to achieve a goal when they see adults persist Does grit—the combination of perseverance and passion popularized in the media—differ from conscientiousness? Personality traits are embedded early in life and remain relatively stable, whereas grit (at least the passion component) may come and go and thus be malleable. Leonard et al. show that infa...

Check out our latest blog post about a childhood poverty and neuroscience workshop that took place at Penn

http://www.allysonmackey.com/blog/

Blog Global Childhood Poverty and Neuroscience Workshops September 22, 2017 by Jasmine Forde Anna MeaneyHow does socioeconomic status affect brain development, and can neuroscience aid in the effort to alleviate global child poverty? As Dr. Martha Farah, the director of the Penn Center for Neuroscience…

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