Patricia Kohl,  of the University of Washington Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, is known for her work on how early exposure to language alters the brain. She comes to Harvard for two talks this week as part of the  Mind/Brain/Behavior Distinguished Lectures. She begins Tuesday with “The Linguistic Genius of Infants: Early Learning and Brain Plasticity.” 

Timely events  fills out the rest of the week, with talks on nuclear power, climate change and the future of energy.

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