Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

Prof. Dr. Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann

Infants are remarkable learners. Within just a few years of life, they exceed other species and existing machine intelligence in central domains of cognition, from language and reasoning to understanding other individuals. Other people play a crucial role in guiding infants’ learning.

The Cognitive Neuroscience Lab investigates the emergence of these remarkable human capacities and their implementation in the human brain. How do infants and young children learn about the world around them? How do other people shape their learning and memory? And how do they come to understand themselves and others as thinking agents in the world? We investigate these questions with a combination of behavioral and neuroscientific methods (including eyetracking, EEG, and MRI).

Understanding how these processes emerge in childhood, and in the human brain, has the potential to reveal the building blocks of uniquely human cognition, and may provide new perspectives for artificial intelligence from infant learning.

Prof. Dr. Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience