What's Going on in There? : : how the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
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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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PUBLISHED
New York : Bantam Books, 2000.
Year Published: 2000
Description: 533 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0553378252
9780553378252
SUBJECTS
Developmental neurophysiology.
Developmental psychobiology.
Child development -- Infants and todders.