Brain and culture : neurobiology, ideology, and social change / Bruce E. Wexler.
2006
HM831 .W48 2006eb
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Brain and culture : neurobiology, ideology, and social change / Bruce E. Wexler.
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9780262286022 (electronic bk.)
0262286025 (electronic bk.)
1423774523 (electronic bk.)
9781423774525 (electronic bk.)
0262232480 (alk. paper)
9780262232487
9780262731935 (pbk.)
0262731932 (pbk.)
0262286025 (electronic bk.)
1423774523 (electronic bk.)
9781423774525 (electronic bk.)
0262232480 (alk. paper)
9780262232487
9780262731935 (pbk.)
0262731932 (pbk.)
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2006.
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English
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1 online resource (307 pages) : illustrations
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HM831 .W48 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.8
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"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.
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"A Bradford book."
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