Lifespan Development and the Brain: The Perspective of Biocultural Co-Constructivism

ISBN: 9780521175555 出版年：2006 页码：445 Paul B Baltes Patricia A Reuter-Lorenz Frank Rosler Cambridge University Press

Preface Paul B. Baltes, Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz and Frank Rosler Part I. Setting the Stage across the Ages of the Lifespan: 1. Prologue: biocultural co-constructivism as a theoretical metascript Paul B. Baltes, Frank Rosler and Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz 2. Biocultural co-construction of lifespan development Shu-Chen Li Part II. Neuronal Plasticity and Biocultural Co-Construction: Microstructure Meets the Experiential Environment: 3. Neurobehavioral development in the context of biocultural co-constructivism Charles A. Nelson 4. Adult neurogenesis Gerd Kempermann Part III. Neuronal Plasticity and Biocultural Co-Construction: Atypical Brain Architectures: 5. Sensory input-based adaptation and brain architecture Maurice Ptito and Sebastien Desgent 6. Blindness: a source and case of neuronal plasticity Brigitte Roder Part IV. Biocultural Co-Construction: Specific Functions and Domains: 7. Language acquisition: biological versus cultural implications for brain structure Angela D. Friederici and Shirley-Ann Ruschemeyer 8. Reading, writing, and arithmetic in the brain: neural specialization for acquired functions Thad A. Polk and J. Paul Hamilton 9. Emotion, learning, and the brain: from classical conditioning to cultural bias Elizabeth A. Phelps 10. The musical mind: neural tuning and the aesthetic experience Oliver Vitouch Part V. Plasticity and Biocultural Co-Construction in Later Life: 11. Influences of biological and self-initiated factors on brain and cognition in adulthood and aging Lars Nyberg and Lars Backman 12. The aging mind and brain: implications of enduring plasticity for behavioral and cultural change Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz and Joseph A. Mikels Part VI. Biocultural Co-Construction: From Micro- to Macroenvironments in Larger Cultural Contexts: 13. Characteristics of illiterate and literate cognitive processing: implications of brain-behavior co-constructivism Karl Magnus Petersson and Alexandra Reis 14. The influence of work and occupation on brain development Neil Charness 15. The influence of organized violence and terror on brain and mind: a co-constructive perspective Thomas Elbert, Brigitte Rockstroh, Iris-Tatjana Kolassa, Maggie Schauer and Frank Neuner 16. Co-constructing human engineering technologies in old age: lifespan psychology as a conceptual foundation Ulman Lindenberger and Martin Lovden Part VII. Epilogue: 17. Letters on nature and nurture Onur Gunturkun.