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Baby Brains: A New Laboratory for Studying Child Development

Maggie2019-07-12T09:00:51-04:00July 12, 2019|Categories: Exhibits, Mission, Programs, Support, Wonderlab Education Blog|Tags: 2019 Norman Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award, Aditya Belamkar, babies, Bloomington, childhood, Cognitive development, developmental research, early childhood education, experimental psychology, head camera, Indiana, indiana university, lab-based research, learning, learning models, linda smith, Psychological and Brain Science, psychology, Science, Science Museum, science sprouts, science sprouts place, Southern Indiana, WonderLab, wonderlabsciencemuseum|

A conversation with Dr. Linda Smith – Bringing Head Cameras Home Dr. Linda Smith. Photo courtesy of Linda Smith [...]

Teach the Teachers, Teach the World

Maggie2019-07-06T14:15:28-04:00July 6, 2019|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: atmospheric science, Bloomington, bloomington high school south, Bloomington Indiana, climate change, earth science, emmy brockman, environmental science, indiana university, IU Grand Challenge, IU Griffy Nature Preserve, kirstin milks, michael hamburger, phillipa tanford, Science, science poster sessions, STEAM, Summer Science Institute, teacher training, teaching teachers, wonderlab museum, wonderlabsciencemuseum|

Educating for Environmental Change: Summer Science Institutes Prepare Teachers with Real World Training 2018 SSI Institute Poster Session [...]

The Science Behind the Sprouts

Maggie2019-06-07T09:30:02-04:00June 7, 2019|Categories: Exhibits, Mission, Support, Wonderlab Education Blog|Tags: Bloomington, cognitive neuroscience, DCN Lab, Dr. Bennett Bertenthal, eye-tracking, indiana university, infants, minds, science sprouts, science sprouts place, toddlers, WonderLab, wonderlab museum|

Cognitive Neuroscience Inspires Exhibits WonderLab has worked for more than twenty years to ensure that science education is both accessible [...]

Sleepy Brain Equal Bad

Maggie2022-09-21T19:10:43-04:00March 17, 2018|Categories: Thoughts Behind the Wonder|Tags: brain, break, effects, indiana university, rest, rested, sleep, sleepy, study, Studying, wonderlabsciencemuseum|

I do know that I’ve personally experienced all of the other side effects. I’ve hallucinated horrifying faces staring at me during fits of insomnia, lost my temper over tiny and otherwise unimportant events, remembered events that never took place, said things that I knew I shouldn’t have, and experienced my thought processes slowing down the more tired I become.