Lighting Up Young Brains

Lighting Up Young Brains

Save The Children's excellent publication written by Jerome Finnegan explores how parents, carers and nurseries can better understand and support children’s brain development in the first five years.

Babies' brains need music

Babies' brains need music

According to researchers at McMaster University in Canada - very early music training can benefit children - before they even learn to walk or talk - further details at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q2VbOUfUmk.

Bonkers About Brains: creativity and brain development in children

Bonkers About Brains: creativity and brain development in children

What happens to a baby's brain in it's first year of life? Learn how creativity promotes brain development through our first Teddy Talk. Led by Director of Earlyarts, Ruth Churchill Dower, this video of her talk on 24 Nov 2013 at The Conservatoire is a must-see for parents of young children.

Learning, Arts, and the Brain: report on arts and cognition

Learning, Arts, and the Brain: report on arts and cognition

This collection of studies highlights the possible impact of arts study on the brain. It includes links between music training and skills in geometrical representation, reading acquisition and sequence learning and training in acting and memory improvement.

Neuroscience - science of the brain

Neuroscience - science of the brain

This booklet was prepared and edited on behalf of the British Neuroscience Association and the European Dana Alliance for the Brain by Richard Morris (University of Edinburgh) and Marianne Fillenz (University of Oxford).

Where is the social, emotional and brain science behind our early education?

Where is the social, emotional and brain science behind our early education?

Earlyarts Director, Ruth Churchill Dower, discusses the problems with a hierarchy in education that considers the youngest children to be the least important, and asks that neuroscience research that illustrates how young children learn in holistic and heuristic ways is taken into consideration.