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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2005
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ710439 |
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- Oh! What a Smart Baby: What You Need to Know about Children's Brain Development Arnold, Renea Colburn, Nell Genetics Brain Child Development Environmental Influences Language Skills Neurological Organization Brain research is complicated, but its message is simple: babies are born learning and what they learn is up to us. New research on infant brain development shows that a child's experiences in the first three years of life have a distinct impact on her later development and learning. Here's why. All babies are born with one organ that is not fully formed--the brain. Three-quarters of a child's brain develops after birth. Neuroscientists once thought that brain development was mostly influenced by genetics. Now there is evidence that a baby's environment determines how the neural pathways are connected. Research shows that young children who have been talked to and read to by their adult caregivers exhibit language skills that far exceed those of children who received little verbal stimulation.