What’s Going On in There? – notes
As I’ve started reading Lise Eliot’s What’s Going On in There, I’ve realised that my brain, at least, works the same now as it did in university. I cannot read a work of non-fiction and expect to...
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These are my notes from reading Lise Elliot’s What’s Going On in There?. Chapter 1, short and light, gives a brief overview of the nature/nurture issue, and explains the author’s reasons for writing...
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These are my notes from reading Lise Elliot’s What’s Going On in There?. “The Basic Biology of Brain Development”. This chapter covers prenatal development of the brain and the nervous system, and an...
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These are my notes from reading Lise Elliot’s What’s Going On in There?. “Prenatal Influences on the Developing Brain”. This chapter goes through all the things that can affect the development of the...
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These are my notes from reading Lise Elliot’s What’s Going On in There?. “How Birth Affects the Brain”. This chapter describes the effects on the baby of labour, birth, and the drugs used in...
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These are my notes from reading Lise Elliot’s What’s Going On in There?. “The Importance of Touch”. This chapter goes through the development of the sense of touch, which is the first sense to emerge...
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These are my notes from reading Lise Elliot’s What’s Going On in There?. “Why Babies Love to Be Bounced: The Precocious Sense of Balance and Motion”. This chapter talks about the vestibular sense,...
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