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What's going on in there? : How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
Charts the development of the human brain from conception through the first five years, looking at the way a child's brain is assembled and the implications of this sequence for each emerging mental skill, including sensation, emotion, language, movement, memory, and intelligence.
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New York
Bantam Books
1999
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Table of Contents:
- 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 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.