RAVE/NSF

The leading outcome goal of NSF RAVE was to produce an augmentative learning tool that makes available natural language patterns to young babies during the precise critical or sensitive periods in early brain and behavior development when they need it most.

To build NSF RAVE, basic science studies were first conducted with Dr. Petitto’s fNIRS brain imaging system that measures language and higher cognitive processing in the infant brain with Dr. Merla’s Thermal IR imaging system that measures baby’s levels of emotional-attentional interest.