Brain scientist and physicist Caterina Stamoulis is passionate to discover how an infant’s brain gets wired to understand the world around us. She discusses how her team has mapped “blueprints†of a child’s thoughts and how this promises to enable future understanding of cognitive abilities and disabilities. Her talk showcases how modern technology can map the development of specific brain circuits in babies as they respond to adult facial expressions. Caterina, a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, uses novel computational technologies to study the human brain's neural wiring. Having trained in engineering and applied physics (underwater acoustics) at MIT, she applies big data approaches inspired by the physical sciences to understand the infant brain. Caterina is supported by President Obama's BRAIN Initiative through the National Science Foundation. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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