- Hardcover: 544 pages
- Publisher: Allen Lane (30 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0713992913
- ISBN-13: 978-0713992915
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.6 x 5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 270,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Although the brain of a newborn has 100 billion nerve cells, babies are capable of little beyond the most vital functions such as breathing and sucking. Sensory ability is primitive and higher cognitive functions such as attention, reasoning and conscious memory are absent because babies' brain cells are only poorly connected. What firms up these connections are the experiences and stimulation the baby receives in the critical first five years.
Though not for the impatient, What's Going on in There? presents a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge about infant and early childhood brain development with impressive depth and clarity. Along the way, it richly demonstrates the innumerable ways in which parents can help their children develop better brains. Eliot, a neuroscientist and mother of three, starts her immensely intelligent labour of love with a richly detailed yet accessible tour of the growing embryo, guiding readers through the developing sensory, motor, emotional and cognitive systems. You'll understand the inner workings of the brain like never before. You'll learn the latest thinking on the nature vs. nurture question. You'll gain invaluable insights into the evolution of the senses, motor skills, social and emotional growth, memory, language and intelligence. Throughout, Eliot maintains a neutral voice, meticulously steering away from thornier social and ethical issues. In such a vital and contentious area, this can be either an advantage or a detriment, depending on the interests or needs you bring to the book. What's Going on in There? is another landmark in popular science.--Fiona Buckland
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Although the human brain has 100 billion nerve cells at birth, newborns are capable of little beyond the most vital functions like breathing and sucking. The infant's ability to see, hear, touch, smell and taste is primitive. Higher cognitive functions like attention, reasoning, language and conscious memory are absent. Scientific research proves that a baby's brain cells are only weakly connected. What firms up these connections are the experiences and stimulation the baby receives in the critical first five years. While every child is born with the capacity for higher thinking, how fully the brain and mind develops is determined in equal measure by genetics and by the richness of the environment surrounding the child. This is true of all environments, both rational and emotional - cuddling, touching, comforting, bouncing, hugging, smiling, soothing, talking and playing are as vital as mental stimulation. Every aspect of a child's evolving brain can be affected by the quality of the world to which he or she is exposed. "What's Going on in There?" demonstrates the innumerable ways in which parents can actually help children develop better brains. Throughout this remarkable book, copious examples featuring real children help us to understand not only the science but also the reality of how and why infants' brains develop as they do. Most importantly, we discover how vital the experience that parents and carers provide is to the quality of that development.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the best book on bringing up baby I have read,
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This review is from: What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Hardcover)
This is a truly excellent book. the Amazon synopis gives the details on content so I won't repeat that. What I really like about it is that whilst there is a plethora of advice from other books on how to bring up your baby, what to feed her, how to interact, whether to feed on demand or at intervals etc, most of it seems to be based on opinions and prejudices, not science or fact, and much is contradictory. It makes it very confusing for parents wantiong to do the best for their children and wishing to have more to rely on than 'old wives tales'. Lise Eliot covers all of this ground from the point of view of how the baby's brain is impacted at the level of neurology - positively or negatively - by the different choices we make about how we will bring up our children. She backs her points up with stong scientific evidence, quoting a vast array of different experiements, tests etc for each point. I couldn't help repeating chunks to my wife, friends and colleagues because it is a complete eye opener....Babies who are breast fed turn into more intelligent adults.....children who receive frequent touching and stimulation develop faster and are smarter ....if babies are not stimulated in certain ways during critical and quite short growth phases of their brains, whole areas of talent such as music are locked to them for the rest of their lives. This is powerful stuff. It is clear, well written and totally engaging. I commend it to all parents of young children. Older parents should probably avoid it as it may induce feelings of guilt about what they didn't do.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Fabulous - As important for your baby as new clothes!,
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This review is from: What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Hardcover)
Wallowing around in the labryinth world of 'successful parenting' and 'how to make your child a genius' books, I stumbled across this book. Thank goodness I did. Hats off to the author. It is informative and an excellent source of facts, hugely well researched with quantified information with clear annotation of speculation (mostly very well informed) and presented in a way that keeps a non-scientific interested new parent reading, turning the pages for more, yet satisfying the more scientific amongst us.The contents are a walk through pre and post natal development specifically realting to the brain touching on environmental, genetic, and physical influences until age 5. It makes considerable references to development after that as well, which is a bonus. I have suggested this book to every new parent I have met and not one has yet been disappointed. The references to research is in astonishing amounts for a non-classroom book. Very worthwhile.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
scientific baby analysis,
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This review is from: What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life (Hardcover)
This is a great book for those with an interest in the physical science of humans and how they develop. It's highly scientific but explained in an easy to understand way with lots of real life (and sometimes bizarre) examples of what happens when childhood development is disturbed and how to improve your baby's ability to learn about the world around them. IT is very focused on the science of the brain. I highly recommend this fascinating book.
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