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Eliot L. 1999. What's going on in there?: How the brain and mind develop in the first five years of life. New York: Random House, Bantam Books, 533 pp.

Annotation: This book explores neural and psychological development from conception to age five. It covers topics such as critical prenatal influences, infant stimulation, sex linked developmental differences, and the nature nurture controversy. The author devotes a chapter each to the development of touch, balance and motion, smell, taste, vision, hearing, motor skills, social and emotional growth, and the emergence of memory. The final chapter is suggestions for raising a smarter child.

Keywords: Brain, Child development, Cognitive development, Early childhood development, Infant development, Infant stimulation, Intellectual development, Language development, Memory, Nature nurture controversy, Neural development, Prenatal influences, Psychological development, Sex linked developmental differences

Ratner H. 1991. Improving Memory of EMR Children [Final report]. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 83 pp.

Annotation: This study's objective was to develop, for educable mentally retarded (EMR) children, instructional strategies that were embedded in a social context and enhanced children's memory performance across time and situation. Specifically, the project tested the use of a 12-week training program in which the subject children's memory skills were exercised and developed through the use of demand conditions and self-generated memory strategies. With the accomplishment of this objective, it was hoped that EMR children reach a more nearly normal level of functioning in society. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Children, Memory Skills, Mental Retardation
   

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