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.