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

Contributor(s): Baltes, Paul B | Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia Ann, 1958- | Rösler, Frank.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006Description: xiv, 675 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.ISBN: 0205431984; 9780205431984.Subject(s): Brain -- Growth | Culture | Brain -- growth and development | Culture | Human DevelopmentOnline resources: Table of contents | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information
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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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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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