Ebook: A thousand days of wonder: a scientist's chronicle of his daughter's developing mind

"In A Thousand Days of Wonder, Fernyhough, a psychologist and novelist, attempts to get inside his daughter's head as Athena acquires all the faculties that makes us human, including social skills, language, morality, and a sense of self. He observes her first sleepy movements, the whites of her eyes roaming behind half-closed lids like those of a 1950s sci-fi alien, and explains the neuroscience behind her first fragile moments of consciousness."--Inside jacket.;It's like this : remembering a beginning -- Preconceptions : life before birth -- Blooming, buzzing : first impressions of the newborn -- Those driven things : coming to know the people who shared her world -- Who's playing that piano? : acting, reacting, and gaining control -- Closing the circle : object lessons -- Where's the bear? : a word for everything -- Um ... language and thought -- All by myself : emerging from the mirror -- The shining thread : a self that endures -- Believe me : telling the truth about other minds -- It's about a little mouse : the story of story -- The young Doctor Who : adventures in time and space -- Lightning ridge is falling down : a portrait of the artist -- If you go to the sea of life, be sure to wear your armbands : love and loss -- Where it takes you : casting into the future.