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Tables of Contents for The Scientist in the Crib
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface and Acknowledgments
vii
Ancient Questions and a Young Science
1
22
The Ancient Questions
4
2
Baby 0.0
6
4
The Other Socratic Method
10
1
The Great Chain of Knowing
11
3
Piaget and Vygotsky
14
6
The New View: The Computational Baby
20
3
What Children Learn About People
23
37
What Newborns Know
25
7
The Really Eternal Triangle
32
3
Peace and Conflict Studies
35
5
Changing Your Point of View
40
2
The Conversational Attic
42
2
Learning About ``About''
44
3
The Three-Year-Old Opera: Love and Deception
47
4
Knowing You Didn't Know: Education and Memory
51
1
How Do They Do It?
52
8
Mind-Blindness
53
2
Becoming a Psychologist
55
2
When Little Brother Is Watching
57
3
What Children Learn About Things
60
32
What Newborns Know
64
6
The Irresistible Allure of Stripes
64
1
The Importance of Movement
65
2
Seeing the World Through 3-D Glasses
67
3
The Tree in the Quad and the Keys in the Washcloth
70
3
Making Things Happen
73
6
Kinds of Things
79
4
How Do They Do It?
83
9
World-Blindness
84
1
The Explanatory Drive
85
3
Grown-ups as Teachers
88
4
What Children Learn About Language
92
41
The Sound Code
94
3
Making Meanings
97
2
The Grammar We Don't Learn in School
99
3
What Newborns Know
102
8
Taking Care of the Sounds: Becoming a Language-Specific Listener
106
4
The Tower of Babble
110
2
The First Words
112
5
Putting It Together
117
3
How Do They Do It?
120
13
Word-Blindness: Dyslexia and Dysphasia
120
2
Learning Sounds
122
3
Learning How to Mean
125
3
``Motherese''
128
5
What Scientists Have Learned About Children's Minds
133
41
Evolution's Programs
134
5
The Star Trek Archaeologists
139
4
Foundations
143
4
Learning
147
17
The Developmental View: Sailing in Ulysses' Boat
149
4
Big Babies
153
2
The Scientist as Child: The Theory Theory
155
7
Explanation as Orgasm
162
2
Other People
164
10
Nurture as Nature
165
5
The Klingons and the Vulcans
170
2
Sailing Together
172
2
What Scientists Have Learned About Children's Brains
174
24
The Adult Brain
175
5
How Brains Get Built
180
3
Wiring the Brain: Talk to Me
183
3
Synaptic Pruning: When a Loss Is a Gain
186
3
Are There Critical Periods?
189
5
The Social Brain
194
1
The Brain in the Boat
195
3
Trailing Clouds of Glory
198
15
What Is to Be Done?
198
8
The Clouds
206
7
Notes
213
14
References
227
38
Index
265