[lingtalks] CHD Seminar: FRIDAY - Joan Stiles
Katie Wagner
kgwagner at ucsd.edu
Mon Oct 6 18:52:02 PDT 2008
The Center for Human Development Presents
Joan Stiles
UCSD
Department of Cognitive Science
Friday, October 10th
12-1pm (discussion 1-1:50pm)
room 003 in the Cognitive Science Building
“Developing Deep Cortical Hierarchies"
Over the past three decades, developmental neurobiologists have made
tremendous progress in defining basic principles of brain development.
This work has changed the way we think about how brains develop.
Thirty years ago, the dominant model was strongly deterministic. The
relationship between brain and behavioral development was viewed as
unidirectional; that is, brain maturation enables behavioral
development. The advent of modern neurobiological methods has provided
overwhelming evidence that it is the interaction of genetic factors
and the experience of the individual that guides and directs brain
development. Brains do not develop normally in the absence of critical
genetic signaling, and they do not develop normally in the absence of
essential environmental input. The fundamental facts about brain
development should be of critical importance to neuropsychologists
trying to understand the relationship between brain and behavioral
development. However, the underlying assumptions of most contemporary
psychological models reflect largely outdated ideas about how the
biological system develops and what it means for something to be
innate. Thus, contemporary models of brain development challenge the
foundational constructs of the nature versusnurture formulation in
psychology. The key to understanding the origins and emergence of both
the brain and behavior lies in understanding how inherited and
environmental factors are engaged in the dynamic and interactive
processes that define and direct development of the neurobehavioral
system.
Everyone is welcome.
Speaker list and papers are available at http://chd.ucsd.edu/Main_Schedule.htm
For any questions about the seminar contact Katie at kgwagner at psy.ucsd.edu
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