Greetings from the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience!
Whether you have already taken part in our studies or have recently joined our growing participant database, I appreciate your interest in our research at Children's Hospital Boston.
This is a particularly exciting time for the laboratories; our talented researchers continue to explore a range of important "unsolved mysteries" about healthy infant and child development. For example, let's say you are a parent of a 3-year-old and a newborn. Given your 3-year-old's extensive experience looking at their new sibling (whether in jealousy or affection!), might she have developed a certain expertise for distinguishing infant faces that a 3-year-old who is an only child might not have? By working with infants, children, and adults, we aim to better understand how varying degrees of experience with "same-age" and "other-age" faces may impact brain development throughout one's lifetime.
Collaborating with child development experts from across Boston and around the world, our researchers are also engaged in studies focused on populations of children at risk for certain neurocognitive impairments. In Romania, we have helped to initiate the Bucharest Early Intervention Project; our ongoing work has demonstrated how the placement of children from orphanages into foster homes benefits their behavioral, social, and cognitive development. And here in Massachusetts, we are working with local families to identify potential early neurobehavioral markers of Autism Spectrum Disorders which might appear during infancy.
I am excited about our continued research in the realm of child development, and I invite you to explore our website or contact our research team directly to learn more about the nature of our studies. Thank you again for your interest in the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, and I look forward to meeting you at a study session in the near future.
Warm wishes,
Charles A. Nelson III, PhD.
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Richard David Scott Chair of Pediatric Developmental
Medicine Research, Children's Hospital Boston
Division of Developmental Medicine, Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience
Greetings from the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience! 
