Synaptic plasticity mechanisms underlying learning in the brain
Richard Huganir, Professor and Director of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience; Director of the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute; and Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Towards understanding deep neural networks
Alan Yuille, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Neural changes underlying visual shape learning
Ed Connor, Professor of the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience; Director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Developmental plasticity and language learning: Computational, maturational, and linguistic constraints
Elissa Newport, Professor of Neurology; Director of the Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery, Georgetown University
Linguistic diversity marks social groups and facilitates interpersonal communication
Katherine Kinzler, Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Cornell University
Gradually learning to read a foreign language: Adaptive partial machine translation
Jason Eisner, Professor of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Brain mechanisms of early reading skills
Bruce McCandliss, Professor of the Graduate School of Education; Psychology; and Stanford Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University
Reading and spelling: Challenges and opportunities for evolutionarily recent brain networks
Brenda Rapp, Chair and Professor of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
Excellence Gaps: The role of translational research in implementing large-scale educational change
Jonathan Plucker, Julian C. Stanley Endowed Professor of Talent Development, Johns Hopkins University