How do environments build brains?: Strategies in developmental science
Speaker: Professor Karen Thorpe and Associate Professor Sally Staton
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland
Title: How do environments build brains?: Strategies in developmental science
Abstract: The first 5 years coincide with the most critical time in human synapse formation. This process is entrained by early experiences, that potentiate a child’s ongoing trajectories of health, learning and behaviour. To identify which experiences promote or limit optimal development (and inform associated policy and practice) the Thorpe Lab utilises the “natural laboratory” of childcare settings and the “natural experiments” of transitions to understand how early social and physical environments impact developmental trajectories into adulthood. In this presentation we talk about the measurement technologies, project designs and data techniques we apply in the complexity of developmental science.
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