How can early-childhood educators best help children from low-income families succeed when it comes to learning math? Researchers from Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...

Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most sophisticated learning system—the mind of a baby. Gurgling infants might seem like no match for ...

Findings released this week from three years of studies by neuroscientists and psychologists at seven universities help amplify scientists’ understanding of how training in the arts might contribute ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Babies as young as five months old make distinctions about categories of events that their parents do not, revealing new information about how language develops in humans. The ...

Harvard Professor Elizabeth Spelke spoke to a mostly-female Braker 001 audience as Tufts celebrated International Women's Day yesterday. The lecture, entitled "Is Science a Man's World? Gender, Math ...

WASHINGTON – James L. McClelland and Elizabeth Shilin Spelke are the inaugural recipients of the National Academy of Sciences Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences. Each will receive the ...

Host Scott Simon talks with two Harvard professors about a controversial petition that has been circulating among faculty members. It calls on the university to divest from companies doing business in ...