Child Brain Development and Learning Lab
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A Series of Lectures Organized
by the Taipei City Infant Daycare Association
Professor Wang visited “Children Kingdom preschool” to participate in a series of lectures organized by the Taipei City Infant Daycare Association, sharing insights with childcare professionals and parents on infant and toddler development and childcare from a neuroscience perspective.Professor Wang began by discussing infant and toddler brain development and neuroplasticity, explaining how early experiences shape neural connections and emphasizing the importance of appropriate cognitive stimulation.
Hu-Lien Culture & Arts Foundationnvites Experts to Share
: The Many Benefits of Reading with Children
The Hu Lien Cultural and Arts Foundation invited Professor Shin-Min Wang , to speak on the topic “Shared Reading Is More Than Storytelling: Understanding Children’s Learning Beginnings Through Neuroscience.” From the perspectives of infant and toddler brain development and neuroscience, Professor Wang guided parents to reconsider the meaning of parent-child shared reading and understand how a book and a conversation can become essential nourishment for children’s learning and growth.
Laboratory Overseas Study Tour Special ft. Seoul
Our lab's overseas journey began with institutional visits to Seoul National University (SNU) and Ewha Womans University, where we explored their affiliated kindergartens, child development centers, and exchanged ideas with faculty and research teams. We then headed to Incheon for the 28th ISSBD Biennial Meeting, where our lab presented three studies in the symposium "Neuroscience and AI Tools in Dialogic Reading Research," chaired by Professor Shin-Min Wang.
Invited to speak: "The Neural Mechanisms of Shared Reading" at NUTN.
June 5, 2026.Our lab PI, Shinmin Wang, was invited to give a keynote speech at the 2026 Academic Conference on Early Childhood Curriculum and Teaching, hosted by the Department of Early Childhood Education at NUTU.
Yesterday's presentation focused on the following theme:
Shared parent–child reading is more than a language activity. Through conversational interaction, it can also support sensory prediction and executive functioning, helping to foster children's brain development. Even if parents spend only five minutes a day reading with their children, those five minutes can become a valuable source of linguistic, cognitive, and emotional growth.
Relational Neuroscience & fNIRS Hyperscanning Workshop
Do you want to know how people’s brains “synchronize” during social interaction?
If you’re interested in social neuroscience and fNIRS hyperscanning, don’t miss this exciting workshop!
This time we are honored to invite 👨🏫 Dr. Pascal Vrticka (University of Essex) 👨🏫 to guide participants through the full process—from theory to data analysis.
✨ Workshop highlights include:
• Overview of social neuroscience
• Technical planning and data collection
• Preprocessing and WTC analysis
• Advanced statistical analysis procedures
📅 Date | April 11, 2026 (Sat)
🕐 Time | 13:00–17:00
📍 Venue | Room Zheng 102, Heping Campus, National Taiwan Normal University
Invited to speak: "Neuroscience and Early Childhood Education" at UTAR.
Our lab PI, Prof. Shinmin Wang, was recently invited to the Department of Early Childhood Education at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia to deliver a talk on “Neuroscience and Early Childhood Education” and to serve as an external reviewer for the program evaluation.🧠
Did you know? Shared book reading isn’t just about parent–child bonding — it can actually "change the brain"!
🧠 Why do some babies start speaking earlier than others?
🧠 Why do children who read together seem to “understand language” better?
🧠 Do you believe that reading together can truly reshape a baby’s brain?
🧠 What’s really happening inside their little heads?
🎥 Watch this video to see how babies’ brains learn language through stories.
