Week 2

Human growth and biological development vs. behavior and cognition

Human change and grow and develop. Lots of ways to look at this; measure is quantitatively, view it qualitatively or consider it's transformative nature. However, it clearly rests upon a biological entity (the human itself). It is fascinating, because it is us.
1. Growth, development and maturation
Definitions (p. 15, Barry Bogin, Patterns of Human Growth)

Human development (biology) Wikipedia.org article with mega-hypertext
Especially note the stages/phases of physical growth.

Human Growth Charts:
Head circumference (QuickTime)
Motor Milestones

QuickTime Clips:
Brain Growth
Major Event in Neural Development
Seen a fetus lately?

2. Emergent properties of the physical body
Behaviorism is not a bad word. More Wiki
Cognition - is it as good a plain old thinking?

Digital Libraries

Caron Inouye's (BIOL) presentation at Back to the Bay Conference at CSUEB.

Examples are The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) and MERLOT


Some specific items:

Embryonic growth in 22 secs (credit Nova)