Elizabeth Spelke is the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology and an investigator at Center for Brains, Minds and Machines in Cambridge, MA. She studies the innate cognitive capacities that emerge in human infancy, summarized in her book, What Babies Know (2022), as well as children’s capacities for fast and flexible learning. With cognitive and comparative neuroscientists, she investigates whether the cognitive mechanisms driving young children’s learning are shared by other animals and continue to function in older children and adults. With computational cognitive scientists, she probes the mechanisms that give rise to intelligence. With economists, she leverages findings from the developmental cognitive sciences to create and evaluate interventions to enhance the learning of children worldwide, and she uses findings from field research evaluating the interventions to deepen understanding of how humans learn.