What's going on in there?
Subtitle: how the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life
By: Lise Eliot
Edition: Bantam trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 533
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Child development; Infants and todders; Infants and toddlers; Developmental psychobiology; Neurophysiology; Popular works; Developmental neurophysiology
Description: A study of how the human brain forms in the first five years of life describes the critical period of development a child goes through and what parents can do to help their children's brains develop.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-518) and index.
Table of contents: title: Nature or nurture? It's all in the brain; title: The basic biology of brain development; title: Prenatal influences on the developing brain; title: How birth affects the brain; title: The importance of touch; title: Why babies love to be bounced: the precocious sense of balance and motion; title: The early world of smell; title: Taste, milk, and the origins of food preference; title: Wiring up the visual brain; title: How hearing evolves; title: Motor milestones; title: Social-emotional growth; title: The emergence of memory; title: Language and the developing brain; title: How intelligence grows in the brain; title: Nature, nurture, and sex differences in intellectual development; title: How to raise a smarter child.