Dr. April A. Benasich is the Elizabeth H. Solomon Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. She is also the Director of the Infancy Studies Laboratory at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University-Newark and the Director of the Carter Center for Neurocognitive Research. Her work focuses on the human developing brain, the early identification of developmental disorders, the dynamics of early brain plasticity and the role of attention and sensory recruitment in the construction of early brain maps critical to later learning and achievement.