Welcome to the Educational Neuroscience Lab.

Our goals are to study the development and plasticity of the brain and link that knowledge to educational practice and theory.

Our lab's focus encompasses both of the newly developing fields of developmental cognitive neuroscience and educational neuroscience. We explore both the development of neural mechanisms underlying cognitive and emotional processes and how these mechanisms undergo plasticity based on experience, education, disordered development or disease, and/or remediation. 

This plasticity can be advantageous – as in the case of successful educational remediation.  This plasticity can be detrimental – as in the case of exposure to traumatic events.  Finally, plasticity can also be neutral – as explored in the effects of culture on brain function.  In each of these cases, the overarching theme is how the children’s brain function and structure can be changed due to specific experiences.

The specific goal of this approach is to help make links between educational pratice and theory with neuroscience research.

We are located in the Education Department at Dartmouth College in Raven House.