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

"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 sys...

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Main Author: Wexler, Bruce E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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Summary:"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
Item Description:"A Bradford book."
Physical Description:1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-298) and index.
ISBN:9780262286022
0262286025
1423774523
9781423774525
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/1658.001.0001
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized