Professor, Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington; Co-Director, UW Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences; Director, NSF Science of Learning Center (LIFE); Endowed Chair, Bezos Family Foundation Endowed Chair for Early Childhood Learning; Member, National Academy of Sciences, the Rodin Academy, and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Cognitive Science Society and the American Psychological Society; Co-Author, "Brain Myelination at 7 Months of Age Predicts Later Language Development" (2022, Neuroimage), Developing Minds in the Digital Age: Towards a Science of Learning for 21st Century Education (2019), "Early Language Learning and the Social Brain" (2015, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, "Is Speech Learning 'Gated' by the Social Brain?" (2007, Developmental Science), How Babies Think: The Science of Childhood (2001), and The Scientist in the Crib: Minds, Brains, and How Children Learn (2000)