Brain and culture : neurobiology, ideology, and social change / / Bruce E. Wexler

• Autore: Wexler Bruce E
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8
• Soggetto topico: Social change - Psychological aspects; Culture - Psychological aspects; Neurobiology - Social aspects
• Note generali: "A Bradford book."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-298) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- PART 1: Background: Some basic facts about the human brain -- 1. Transgenerational shaping of the human brain function -- 2. Effects of sensory deprivation and sensory enrichment on brain structure and function -- 3. Effects of the social environment on brain structure and function -- PART II: The neurobiology of ideology -- 4. Self-preservation and the difficulty of change in adulthood -- 5. The meeting of cultures -- Epilogue.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Brain and Culture reviews extensive neuroscience, psychological, social science, and historical research to offer a new view of the relationship between people and their environments. Our brains require sensory input from the environment to develop normally, and that input shapes the brain systems necessary for perception, memory, and thinking. Environmental shaping of the brain is much greater in people that in other animals and, more importantly, we shape the environment that shapes our brains to an extent without precedent. Even the structure and function of DNA that codes for brain proteins are changed by early life experience. Through these processes our brains shape themselves to the individual cultural and interpersonal environments in which we are reared."--Jacket.
• Titolo autorizzato: Brain and culture
• ISBN: 1-282-10091-2; 9786612100918; 0-262-28602-5; 1-4237-7452-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810174303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II