Welcome to the Building a Mind Lab
Investigating how newborn minds learn to perceive and reason about the world
Broader Impact
We study newborn animals to discover general principles of how brains work. This understanding will illuminate how babies learn about the world and provide benchmarks for building artificial brains that learn like newborn brains.
Our Mission:
Understand the Origins of Intelligence
Develop high-precision methods for studying newborn animals
Use those methods to obtain precise benchmarks of the origins of core cognitive abilities
Use those benchmarks to build autonomous artificial agents (end-to-end computational models) formalizing the learning mechanisms in newborn brains
