Acknowledgments vii
 Nature or Nurture? It's All in the Brain 1 (10)
 The Basic Biology of Brain Development 11 (29)
 Prenatal Influences on the Developing Brain 40 (56)
 How Birth Affects the Brain 96 (27)
 The Importance of Touch 123(22)
 Why Babies Love to Be Bounced: The Precocious 145(12)
 Sense of Balance and Motion
 The Early World of Smell 157(15)
 Taste, Milk, and the Origins of Food 172(24)
 Preference
 Wiring Up the Visual Brain 196(32)
 How Hearing Evolves 228(32)
 Motor Milestones 260(30)
 Social-Emotional Growth 290(38)
 The Emergence of Memory 328(23)
 Language and the Developing Brain 351(40)
 How Intelligence Grows in the Brain 391(31)
 Nature, Nurture, and Sex Differences In 422(15)
 Intellectual Development
 How to Raise a Smarter Child 437(24)
 Notes 461(58)
 Index 519