Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Forced learning, or "hot-housing", of infants has become increasingly popular in recent years - but does it work? The plasticity of the adolescent and adult brain is becoming gradually acknowledged by brain scientists. What does this say about lifelong learning? In this groundbreaking book, two scientists take stock of what is now known about how and when the brain learns,...

Inventing Ourselves by Sarah-Jayne Blakemore is the winner of the 2020 British Psychological Society Popular Science Prize and the 2018 Royal Society Science Book Prize. This book offers up-to-the-minute brain science from a world-class scientist. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore provides an exploration of how the adolescent brain transforms as it develops, shaping the adults we become. As Professor Robert Winston remarked, 'Beautifully...