scholarly journals The brain–artefact interface (BAI): a challenge for archaeology and cultural neuroscience

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 264-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lambros Malafouris
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Neuroscience ◽  
The Brain

A culture–behavior–brain-loop model of human development

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shihui Han
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Loop Model ◽  
Cultural Neuroscience ◽  
Brain Changes ◽  
Dynamic Relationships ◽  
Behavioral Influences ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Human Phylogeny ◽  
New Framework

Chapter 8 introduces a culture–behavior–brain (CBB)-loop model of human development based on cultural neuroscience findings, and proposes a new framework for understanding human development regarding both human phylogeny and lifespan ontogeny. This model posits that culture shapes the brain by contextualizing behavior, and the brain fits and modifies culture via behavioral influences. Genes provide a fundamental basis for and interact with the CBB loop at both individual and population levels. The CBB-loop model advances our understanding of the dynamic relationships between culture, behavior, and the brain. Future brain changes owing to cultural influences are discussed based on the CBB-loop model.

scholarly journals Culture: by the brain and in the brain?

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 965-983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Ortega ◽  
Fernando Vidal
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Social Neuroscience ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Cultural Neuroscience ◽  
Human Behaviors ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Brain

Abstract Since the 1990s, several disciplines have emerged at the interface between neuroscience and the social and human sciences. For the most part, they aim at capturing the commonalities that underlay the heterogeneity of human behaviors and experiences. Neuroanthropology and cultural neuroscience, or the “neurodisciplines of culture,” appear different, since their goal is to understand specificity rather than commonality and to address how cultural differences are inscribed in the brain. After offering an overview of these disciplines, and of their relation to endeavors such as cultural psychology and social neuroscience, this article discusses some of the most representative studies in the area in order to explore in which ways they are relevant for an understanding of culture.

Music through the Lens of Cultural Neuroscience

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-41
Author(s):  
Donald A. Hodges
Keyword(s):  
Neural Plasticity ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Neuroscience ◽  
Central Thesis ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Gene Environment ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Music Research ◽  
The Brain

A central thesis of this chapter is that biological and cultural aspects of musical experiences are inextricably intertwined. Cultural neuroscience is a field of study concerned with investigating relationships between culture and brain, as expressed in a culture–behavior–brain loop model.Accordingly, musical practices of any given culture must adapt to neural constraints and contrarily, the brain adapts to cultural practices. Genetic instructions and environmental experiences interact in the development of musical expertise. The neural plasticity of the brain is likewise a factor of gene–environment interactions, as evidenced in such processes as neural pruning and myelination. Infant musical behaviors are an amalgam of genetic predispositions and learning experiences. The search for music universals and cross-cultural music research also provide evidence for cultural and biological influences. Virtually nothing about musical experiences is purely biological or purely cultural.

The Number and the Kantian Research Program in Modern Neuroscience

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-60
Author(s):  
Valentin A. Bazhanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Cultural Neuroscience ◽  
Activity Type ◽  
Mathematical Abilities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Systematic Development ◽  
The Brain

The article presents the attempt to consider the Kantian research program in modern neuroscience in its part, which relates to the representation of the “number” and the mechanisms for processing numerical information by neu­ral structures. We claim that Kantian ideas about the a priori nature of certain mathematical categories related to the status of space and time [geometry and arithmetic], which were subjected to doubt as a result of the discovery of non-Euclidean geometries, proved to be highly demanded and reassessed as a result of the intensive progress of modern cognitive and cultural neuroscience. The dis­covery of the subitizing phenomena, “sense of number” and “sense of place” (analogous to the navigation system of the brain) push us to recall the old Kan­tian judgments concerning certain a priori constructions of mathematics. The on­togenetic foundations of such phenomena, their conditionality by the features of the functioning of the brain, reveal not the metaphorical, but the strategic nature of the Kantian research program in modern neuroscience. In the context of these studies, it also turned out that in the case of living systems, one can speak about their proto-arithmetic traits, and in the case of humans, mathematical abilities that are largely independent of the language, and their systematic development from an early age significantly increases the likelihood of successful mathemati­cal activity in future. Attention drawn to the interdependence of the activity of the developing brain, social and cultural contexts, which intersects and expressed in the process of acculturation of the brain and vice versa – neural determination of culture. This kind of interaction support the idea of the possibility of expand­ing original Kantian idea and introducing the idea related to the transcendental­ism of the activity type

Psychological constructionism and cultural neuroscience

2012 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 152-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A. Hechtman ◽  
Narun Pornpattananangkul ◽  
Joan Y. Chiao
Keyword(s):  
Essential Role ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Executive Attention ◽  
Cultural Neuroscience ◽  
Core Affect ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Brain

AbstractLindquist et al. argue that emotional categories do not map onto distinct regions within the brain, but rather, arise from basic psychological processes, including conceptualization, executive attention, and core affect. Here, we use examples from cultural neuroscience to argue that psychological constructionism, not locationism, captures the essential role of emotion in the social and cultural brain.

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