Lifespan development and the brain : the perspective of biocultural co-constructivism / edited by Paul B. Baltes, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz, Frank Rösler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baltes, Paul B., editor.

Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia Ann, 1958- editor.

Rösler, Frank, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain--Growth.

Brain.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 427 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Lifespan Development & the Brain

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-16397-8

1-280-48033-5

9786610480333

0-511-22076-6

0-511-22108-8

0-511-21909-1

0-511-30900-7

0-511-49972-8

0-511-21977-6

OCLC:

144618357