Laura Schulz
MIT Cognitive Scientist | Emerging Tech & Product Innovation
About
Laura Schulz is an award-winning cognitive scientist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her pioneering research on human learning and discovery has been published in leading scientific journals and featured in The New York Times and National Geographic.
Schulz's work explores how children and adults use exploration, experimentation, and causal reasoning to learn about the world. Her insights into the cognitive processes underlying innovation provide a framework for designing more effective products and technology.
Schulz's engaging keynotes reveal the science behind breakthrough ideas, giving leaders practical strategies for driving product development and sustainability.
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The surprisingly logical minds of babies
How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of logic, well before they can talk.
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