The Z-Lab (directed by Dr. Zeynep Saygin) uses noninvasive MRIs to investigate the blueprints of human cognition that may be present even before we are born. This is an MRI of an infant while they were still in the mother’s womb and shows the communication highways or white matter fibers of the brain, colored based on what direction they are going in. We study how these pathways determine later-emerging cognition like language or attention skills in the child, how they continue to develop with development, and how they predict susceptibility to brain injury or recovery from injury in children after a head impact. See zeynepsaygin.com for more info on our research or to participate in our studies!