The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of Babies
What is happening inside the infant brain during the first year of life, why this period of development is more consequential than any other, and how the baby's brain builds itself from the raw materials of relationship, sensation, and repetition
2,053-word article with 8 Harvard references.
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The baby brain is not a blank slate. It arrives equipped with billions of neurons, a set of hardwired survival reflexes, and a capacity for learning that will never again be matched in the course of the person's life. This fully referenced article explores the neuroscience of babies, examines how the infant brain constructs itself during the first twelve months, and argues that understanding what the baby brain is actually doing changes the way we think about infant care, parental guilt, and the extraordinary ordinary work of keeping a small human alive.
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