Interested in participating in our studies?
The Finn Learning and Neural Development Lab is recruiting participants (ages 3-9) for a study designed to understand how children learn!
Learning and Neural Development (LAND) Lab
The long-term goal of our lab is to understand how cognitive and brain development support or constrain learning outcomes. The emerging field of developmental cognitive neuroscience is unveiling vast structural and functional changes in neural systems across the brain. Likewise, core memory systems undergo substantial change across development. What do these changes mean for learning and memory systems? For language acquisition and achievement? For learning in more versus less enriching environments?
Answering these questions is fundamental to understanding the nature of learning during childhood, to knowing why there are age-related limits on learning (critical or sensitive periods), and to understanding the role of the environment in shaping the relationship between brain development, cognitive development and learning.
OUR PHILOSOPHY
WHO WE ARE
We are a cognitive neuroscience and developmental laboratory in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto led by Dr. Amy Finn. Our research team is interested in understanding how the developing human brain supports learning and memory.
OUR RESEARCH
How do brain and cognitive development constrain and enable learning?
OUR PUBLICATIONS
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Do you have a passion for understanding how the mind and brain work?
GET INVOLVED
There’s no better way to learn about our research than to participate in it!
RECENT NEWS
Our amazing summer team have been going into Toronto and talking about our research to the public! Here are some photos of lab members enjoying ice cream afterwards:
CONTACT US
Finn Learning and Neural Development Lab
Department of Psychology
University of Toronto
100 St. George Street, Sidney Smith Hall
Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3
[email protected]
416-978-6387