Department of Psychology, Northwestern University
Rossier School of Education, Brain and Creativity Institute, Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of Southern California.
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2013 Jan;8(1):56-61. doi: 10.1177/1745691612469032.
A central question in the study of the mind is how cognitive functions are shaped by a complex interplay of genetic and experiential processes. Recent evidence from cultural neuroscience indicates that cultural values, practices, and beliefs influence brain function across a variety of cognitive processes from vision to social cognition. This evidence extends to low-level perceptual systems comprised of domain-specific mechanisms, suggesting the importance of ecological and cultural variation in the evolutionary and developmental processes that give rise to the human mind and brain. In this article, we argue that investigating the architecture of the human mind will require understanding how the human mind and brain shape and are shaped by culture-gene coevolutionary processes.
一个中心问题在心灵的研究是如何认知功能是由一个复杂的相互作用的遗传和经验过程。最近的证据从文化神经科学表明,文化价值观、实践和信仰影响大脑功能从视觉到社会认知各种认知过程。这个证据扩展到低水平的感知系统组成的特定领域的机制,表明生态和文化的变化在进化和发展过程中产生的重要性人类的心灵和大脑。在这篇文章中,我们认为,研究人类心灵的结构将需要了解人类的心灵和大脑如何塑造和被文化基因共同进化过程塑造。