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Book

What's going on in there? : how the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life

Call Number

  • 612.82 E428 (CEN)

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Edition

Bantam trade pbk. ed.

Publication Information

New York : Bantam Books, 2000, c1999.

Physical Description

viii, 533 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • Nature or nurture? It's all in the brain
  • The basic biology of brain development
  • Prenatal influences on the developing brain
  • How birth affects the brain
  • The importance of touch
  • Why babies love to be bounced: the precocious sense of balance and motion
  • The early world of smell
  • Taste, milk, and the origins of food preference
  • Wiring up the visual brain
  • How hearing evolves
  • Motor milestones
  • Social-emotional growth
  • The emergence of memory
  • Language and the developing brain
  • How intelligence grows in the brain
  • Nature, nurture, and sex differences in intellectual development
  • How to raise a smarter child.

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