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Early Childhood in Focus: Developing Brains

This seventh edition in the series introduces the language and world of neuroscience and developmental psychology.

In this seventh edition, the language of neuroscience is brought into focus. It presents an overview of the most significant areas of research, starting in the first section with a basic explanation of the brain and how it functions for the research to be understood by people with little or no previous knowledge of the field. The second section gives an overview of the developmental processes involved as the child’s brain grows and matures in constant interaction with the environment, from conception through to adulthood. The third section focuses on the powerful effects of early environments, both physical and social.

A child’s brain starts to develop just a few days after conception.


This publication is part of a series that brings different issues important for early childhood into focus, developed together with the Child and Youth Studies Group at The Open University.

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