Culture and Neuroscience in Developmental Psychology: Contributions and Challenges

Child Development Perspectives - Tập 6 Số 1 - Trang 35-41 - 2012
Joan G. Miller1, Marcel Kinsbourne1
1New School for Social Research

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Abstract— Even with the recent exponential growth in neuroscience research, relatively little attention has been given to cultural influences on brain maturation. In the case of psychological processes that are culturally variable, work in cultural developmental neuroscience is vital in determining the degree of generality that can be attributed to neuroscientific findings and in providing unique insight into how developmental neurobiology interacts with sociocultural parameters. The present article highlights contributions of cultural research in developmental neuroscience in identifying both common and culturally variable brain–behavior pathways and in understanding the nature and extent of brain plasticity. It also points to the importance of cultural work in highlighting the constitutive role of collective meanings in psychological phenomena and in preventing the drawing of unwarranted deterministic conclusions from neurological evidence.

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