Intellectual Development

This book explores the workings of the brain, including its ability to identify and interpret important information while discarding other sensory input, and how it stores and retrieves memories. It investigates past and present theories of learning, how we develop language skills and process language, problem solving, and the sources of creativity and inspiration.

This book contains:

Clear text, photographs, and diagrams that explain how our brains process information and enable us to learn, remember and communicate

Sidebars that explain the relevance of concepts to the American science curriculum

Many glossary terms explained on the page