Lise Eliot, PhD
Associate Professor

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PUBLICATIONS Books: Pink Brain, Blue Brain:  How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps, and What We Can Do About It.  Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2009).  Forthcoming publication in UK (OneWorld) and translations in French, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Romanian. What's Going On in There?  How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life.  New York:  Bantam (1999 hardcover; 2000 paperback).  Published in the UK by Penguin Books, under the title Early Intelligence.  Also published in German, Polish, Chinese and Korean translations.     Selected articles and book chapters: Out with pink and blue:  Don't foster the gender divide.  New Scientist, Issue 2769, June 19, 2010. The truth about boys and girls (May 2010), Scientific American Mind, 21:22-29 (May-June 2010). Common ground on gender.  Education Week, March 31, 2010, with co-author Richard Whitmire. Girl Brain, Boy Brain?  New work shows just how wrong it is to assume that all gender differences are "hardwired."  (Sept. 8, 2009)  Scientific American Online. Gender segregation in schools isn't the answer.  USA Today, Aug. 20, 2008, co-authored with Susan McGee Bailey. Language and the Brain.  in Gilkerson L and Klein R (Eds.), Early Development and the Brain:   Teaching Resources for Educators, Washington DC:  Zero-to-Three Press, 2008, co-authored with Sharon Syc. How to encourage your baby's motor development.  In Ettus S (Ed.), The Experts' Guide to the Baby Years, New York:  Clarkson Potter, 2006. Infant Brain.  In Feinstein S (Ed.), Handbook of Learning and the Brain, Westport CT:  Praeger, 2006, Vol. 1. Why toddlers can't jump.  Junior Magazine (August, 2004).  The science of speech.  Junior Magazine (September, 2003). The early world of smell.  Parenting Magazine (June/July 2003). What babies see.  Junior Pregnancy & Baby (June/July, 2003). Review of Philippe Rochat's "The Infant's World," American Scientist (May-June, 2002). Prenatal influences on the brain.  NAMTA Journal, 2002; 27(1):134-165. Learning through play.  Junior Magazine (April 2002). Language and the developing brain.  NAMTA Journal, 2001; 26(2):8-60. Why babies love to be bounced, Junior Magazine (November, 2001). Baby steps (Letter to the editor).  The New Yorker (February 7, 2000).   Peer-reviewed papers: Christie BR, Eliot LS, Ito K, Miyakawa H, Johnston D.  Different Ca2+ channels in soma and dendrites of hippocampal pyramidal neurons mediate spike-induced Ca2+ influx.  Journal of Neurophysiology, 1995; 73:2553-57.  Eliot LS, Johnston D.  Multiple components of calcium current in acutely-dissociated dentate gyrus granule neurons.  Journal of Neurophysiology, 1994;  72:762-77.  Eliot LS, Kandel ER, Hawkins RD.  Modulation of spontaneous transmitter release during depression and posttetanic potentiation of Aplysia sensory-motor neuron synapses isolated in culture.  Journal  of Neuroscience, 1994; 14:3280-92. Eliot LS, Hawkins RD, Kandel ER, Schacher S.  Pairing-specific, activity-dependent presynaptic facilitation of Aplysia sensory-motor neuron synapses in isolated culture.  Journal of Neuroscience, 1994; 14:368-83. Eliot LS, Kandel ER, Siegelbaum SA, Blumenfeld H.  Imaging terminal regions of Aplysia sensory neurons demonstrates role of enhanced CA2+ influx in presynaptic facilitation.  Nature, 1993; 361:634-37. Eliot LS, Dudai Y, Kandel ER, Abrams TW.  Ca2+/calmodulin sensitivity may be common to all forms of neural adenylate cyclase.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1989; 86:9564-68.