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Neural reuse in the social and emotional brain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2010

Mary Helen Immordino-Yang ,
Joan Y. Chiao  and
Alan P. Fiske
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Affiliation:
Brain and Creativity Institute and Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089. mhimmordino-yang@post.harvard.edu http://rossier.usc.edu/faculty/mary_helen_immordinoyang.html
Joan Y. Chiao
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208. jchiao@northwestern.edu http://culturalneuro.psych.northwestern.edu
Alan P. Fiske
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095. afiske@anthro.ucla.edu http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/faculty/fiske/
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Abstract

Presenting evidence from the social brain, we argue that neural reuse is a dynamic, socially organized process that is influenced ontogenetically and evolutionarily by the cultural transmission of mental techniques, values, and modes of thought. Anderson's theory should be broadened to accommodate cultural effects on the functioning of architecturally similar neural systems, and the implications of these differences for reuse.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , August 2010 , pp. 275 - 276
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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