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What's going on in there? : how the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life / Lise Eliot. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Bantam Books, (c)2000.Edition: Bantam trade pbk. editionDescription: viii, 533 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780553378252
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QP356.E42.W438 2000
  • QP356
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Contents:
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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Withdrawn G. Allen Fleece Library WITHDRAWN Non-fiction RJ252.E45 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not for loan 31923001422928
Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) Circulating Book (checkout times vary with patron status) G. Allen Fleece Library CIRCULATING COLLECTION Non-fiction QP356.25.E44 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31923001577341

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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