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MENSCHEN-BILDER | A Critique of Neuroscience

Tags: brain, neuroscience, critique, blog on 2008-07-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The Cultural Brain in Five Flavors « Neuroanthropology

Tags: neuroanthropology, brain, culture on 2008-07-14 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The symbolic brain represents the increasing convergence of work in anthropology and in neuroscience on questions of meaning, symbolism, subjective experience, and behavior.
In contrast, the inequality brain is more interested in outcomes, in how people end up in different life spaces and with different physical and mental problems through the joint work of many processes—inside and outside the person—that work to create differential variation.
The move to consider embodiment, phenomenology, practices, and experience represent new ways of thinking about social problems that match better with the research and ideas emerging out of recent cognitive neuroscience.
If the brain is plastic, so that activities and experience matter, then culture has a direct effect on how the brain works.
The critical brain takes on two areas. The first area, one we delight in doing, is taking on the bad use of hard-wired biology, evolutionary psychology, and the like in discussing how brains might work and how our minds and cultures link into brain function.
The second area examines the ideologies and symbolisms surrounding the brain in our culture-at-large, as well as the social uses and consequences of our technological understanding and manipulation of neurological processes on society.

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The Interdisciplinary Game « Neuroanthropology

Tags: education, learning, brain, culture, neuroscience, anthropology, teaching on 2008-06-20 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School | Brain Rules |

Tags: brain, education, presentation, neuroscience, interesting, book on 2008-05-29 and saved by71 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Sing Along with The Brain « Neuroanthropology

Tags: neuroscience, brain, anthropology, video, humor, cartoon on 2008-04-26 -All Annotations (0) -About

Differences in dyslexia « Neuroanthropology

Tags: anthropology, disability, culture, brain, research, dyslexia, neuroscience on 2008-04-23 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Time Out of Mind - New York Times

Tags: brain, culture, mind, time on 2008-03-10 -All Annotations (0) -About

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But the quest to spend time the way we do money is doomed to failure, because the time we experience bears little relation to time as read on a clock. The brain creates its own time, and it is this inner time, not clock time, that guides our actions. In the space of an hour, we can accomplish a great deal — or very little.
Inner time is linked to activity. When we do nothing, and nothing happens around us, we’re unable to track time.
To measure time, the brain uses circuits that are designed to monitor physical movement.
Time seems to expand when our senses are aroused.
The brain’s inclination to distort time is one reason we so often feel we have too little of it.
Believing time is money to lose, we perceive our shortage of time as stressful. Thus, our fight-or-flight instinct is engaged, and the regions of the brain we use to calmly and sensibly plan our time get switched off. We become fidgety, erratic and rash.
Tasks take longer. We make mistakes — which take still more time to iron out. Who among us has not been locked out of an apartment or lost a wallet when in a great hurry? The perceived lack of time becomes real: We are not stressed because we have no time, but rather, we have no time because we are stressed.
In scrambling to use time to the hilt, we wind up with less of it.
The remedy is to liberate ourselves from Franklin’s equation. Time is not money but “the element in which we exist,” as Joyce Carol Oates put it more than two decades ago (in a relatively leisurely era). “We are either borne along by it or drowned in it.”