Lifespan development and the brain : the perspective of biocultural co-constructivism

Lifespan development and the brain the perspective of biocultural co-constructivism

The book focuses on the developmental analysis of the brain-culture-environment dynamic and argues that this dynamic is interactive and reciprocal. Brain and culture co-determine each other. As a whole, this book refutes any unidirectional conception of the brain-culture dynamic. Each is influenced...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Baltes, Paul B. (-), Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia Ann, 1958-, Rosler, Frank
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2006.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
Brain > Growth.
Culture.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798137106719
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: biocultural co-constructivism as a theoretical metascript / Paul B. Baltes, Frank Rösler, and Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
  • Biocultural co-construction of lifespan development / Shu-Chen Li
  • Neurobehavioral development in the context of biocultural co-constructivism / Charles A. Nelson
  • Adult neurogenesis / Gerd Kempermann
  • Sensory input-based adaptation and brain architecture / Maurice Ptito and Sébastien Desgent
  • Blindness: a source and case neuronal plasticity / Brigitte Röder
  • Language acquisition: biological versus cultural implications for brain structure / Angela D. Friederici and Shirley-Ann Rüschemeyer
  • Reading, writing, and arithmetic in the brain: from classical conditioning to cultural bias / Elizabeth A. Phelps
  • The musical mind: neural tuning and the aesthetic experience / Oliver Vitouch
  • Influences on the biological and self-initiated factors on brain and cognition in adulthood and aging / Lars Nyberg and Lars Bäckman
  • The aging mind and brain: implications of enduring plasticity for behavioral and cultural change / Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz and Joseph A. Mikels
  • Characteristics of illiterate and literate cognitive processing: implications of brain-behavior co-construction / Karl Magnus Petersson and Alexandra Reis
  • The influence of work and occupation on brain development / Neil Charness
  • The influence of organized violence and terror on brain and mind: a co-constructive perspective / Thomas Elbert ... [et al.]
  • Co-constructing human engineering technologies in old age: lifespan psychology as a conceptual foundation / Ulman Lindenberger and Martin Lövdén
  • Letters on nature and nurture / Onur Güntürkün.

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