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http://www.parliament.uk/post/pn140.pdf This report was prepared for a House of Commons Education and Employment Select Committee inquiry into Early Years Education. It summarises scientific research on both brain development and children’s psychological development; also studies that have compared the outcomes of different types of pre-school education. It then discusses the implications of this research for early years education policy. There’s a lot of information contained in this report but it is easy to read and to grasp. http://www.visembryo.com/baby/index.html This is a great site with diagrams of the developing baby from embryo to full-term. http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/lifecycle/index.asp A Science Museum feature on the biology of the human life-cycle, from fertilisation to birth. http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=1228 This article provides a clear understanding of how the infant brain develops. http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/News-archive/Browse-by-date/2000/Features/WTX024105.htm An article abut Jay Belsky and his work on emotional stimulation and early brain development. http://www.piaget.org/aboutPiaget.html This site explores the life and work of Piaget. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/mindchangers2.shtml From the BBC Radio 4 series 'Mind Changers: Landmark experiments in psychology' Piaget’s three mountains study. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/project2.htm A page containing links to papers and websites relating to the work of Vygotsky. http://members.iinet.net.au/~rstack1/world/rss/files/metacognition.htm Basic information on metacognition is presented on this website. http://cogprints.org/view/subjects/dev-psy.html A list of academic papers on developmental psychology available from CogPrints. Clicking on the links in the papers will take you to full text copies of these articles. http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/id/research_age.html Research into Ageing and Cognition at the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, at Southampton University, with many links to full text articles of their published research. http://www.rsd.cam.ac.uk/events/horizon/horizondocs/series5/Presentations/ageing/Prof_Lorraine_Tyler.pdf Interesting lecture presentation which contains some fabulous images of the aging brain. |