03506nam 2200649 450 991046602540332120200520144314.00-231-54197-X10.7312/schu17676(CKB)3710000000776218(EBL)4588464(OCoLC)956139607(SSID)ssj0001674161(PQKBManifestationID)16472707(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001674161(PQKBWorkID)15013298(PQKB)11537548(PQKBManifestationID)16477430(PQKB)22149275(MiAaPQ)EBC4588464(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724061(DE-B1597)479843(OCoLC)979752088(DE-B1597)9780231541978(Au-PeEL)EBL4588464(CaPaEBR)ebr11242253(CaONFJC)MIL986040(EXLCZ)99371000000077621820160825h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSport a biological, philosophical, and cultural perspective /Jay SchulkinNew York :Columbia University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (245 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-231-17676-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Concept of Sport -- 2. Sports, Brain, Body, and The World -- 3. Evolution, Play, and Sport -- 4. Genetics, Epigenetics, and Talent -- 5. Regulation, Recovery, and Resilience -- 6. Running and The Brain: Neurogenesis -- 7. Throwing, Swimming, and Rowing -- 8. Fairness and Sports -- 9. Dignity and Beauty -- Conclusion: Sport and Successful Aging -- References -- IndexSports are as varied as the people who play them. We run, jump, and swim. We kick, hit, and shoot balls. We ride sleds in the snow and surf in the sea. From the Olympians of ancient Greece to today's professional athletes, from adult pickup soccer games to children's gymnastics classes, people at all levels of ability at all times and in all places have engaged in sport. What drives this phenomenon?In Sport, the neuroscientist Jay Schulkin argues that biology and culture do more than coexist when we play sports-they blend together seamlessly, propelling each other toward greater physical and intellectual achievement. To support this claim, Schulkin discusses history, literature, and art-and engages philosophical inquiry and recent behavioral research. He connects sport's basic neural requirements, including spatial and temporal awareness, inference, memory, agency, direction, competitive spirit, and endurance, to the demands of other human activities. He affirms sport's natural role as a creative evolutionary catalyst, turning the external play of sports inward and bringing insight to the diversion that defines our species. Sport, we learn, is a fundamental part of human life.SportsPhysiological aspectsSportsSocial aspectsElectronic books.SportsPhysiological aspects.SportsSocial aspects.613.7Schulkin Jay869275MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910466025403321Sport2473048UNINA