Introduction: Culture as an Explanation of the Human Mind
Human Development from the Perspective of Comparative Psychology
Would Humans Without Language Be Apes? Jacques Vauclair
Continuities Between Great Ape and Human Behaviors by Kathleen R. Gibson
Assumptions and Knowledge Construction: What Can Science Learn from Primate Languages and Cultures? by Jaan Valsiner
Culture in the Developing or Regressing Brain
Culture in Our Brains: Cross-Cultural Differences in the Brain-Behavior Relationships by Alfredo Ardila
Art and Brain Evolution by Tabassum Ahmed and Bruce L. Miller
Cultural Perspective on the Human Development
Origins of Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Human Behaviour: An Ecocultural Perspective by John Berry
Semiotics of Culture in Scientific and Carnivalistic Guises: Michail Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman by Ivana Markova
The Role of Culture in Child Development
Making Sense in a World of Symbols by Katherine Nelson
Development of Symbol Meaning and the Emergence of the Semiotically Mediated Mind by Aaro Toomela
Constructing Knowledge Beyond Senses: Worlds Too Big and Small to See by Eve Kikas
Afterwords: Animals, Brain, Culture, and Children--Emerging Picture from Complementary Perspectives by Aaro Toomela
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This volume is unique in integrating different domains of psychology, at both theoretical and empirical levels of analysis, in order to understand the development of the human mind. Perspectives include comparative, cultural, and developmental psychology, in addition to neuropsychology. Contributors in this edited collection emphasize both the collective nature of human cognition and the impossibility of separating individuals from their sociocultural environments. They also explain how participation in culture leads to radical changes in an individual's psychological makeup. This volume may also be of interest to anthropologists, philosophy scholars, and semioticians.
Major topics include:
. Human Development from the Perspective of Comparative Psychology
. Culture in the Developing or Regressing Brain
. Cultural Perspective on the Human Development
. The Role of Culture in Child Development