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

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Title:

Author:

Baltes, Paul B.

ISBN:

9780521844949

Publication Information:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Physical Description:

xiv, 427 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

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.

Abstract:

"This book focuses on the developmental analysis of brain-culture-environment dynamics 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, as each is influenced by and modifies the other. To capture the ubiquitous reach and significance of the mutually dependent and co-productive brain-culture system, the metaphor of biocultural co-constructivism is invoked. Distinguished researchers from cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and developmental psychology review the evidence in their respective fields. A special focus of the book is its coverage of the entire human lifespan."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Brain -- Growth.

Culture.

Brain -- growth and development.

Human Development.

Added Author:

Baltes, Paul B.

Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia Ann, 1958-

Rösler, Frank.

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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 by and modifies the other. To capture the ubiquitous reach and significance of the mutually dependent brain-culture system, the metaphor of biocultural co-constructivism is invoked. Distinguished researchers from cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology and developmental psychology review the evidence in their respective fields. A special focus of the book is its coverage of the entire human lifespan from infancy to old age.