Re: [xmca] Cole article citation

its also online in living color at lchc.ucsd.edu!!
:-)
mike the brain person

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Andrew Coppens <acoppens@ucsc.edu> wrote:

> David,
>
> The citation is correct. Here's the website for the journal
> www.elsevier.com/locate/jphysparis. I was able to access the article
> through the Science Direct database at my library. Perhaps it could be
> posted somewhere for viewing? (If this isn't the case somewhere I don't know
> about.)
>
> Best of luck,
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of David Cross
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:23 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] The Strange Situation
>
>
> I am very much interested in this article, but cannot locate it. Is
> this the correct citation?
>
> Cheers,
> David
>
> Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> writes:
>
> > And in:
> >
> > Cole, M. (2007). "Phylogeny and cultural history in ontogeny." Journal of
> > Physiology - Paris 101, 236­246
> >
> > "Quartz and Sejnowski, declare that culture ŒŒcontains part of the
> > developmental program that works with genes to build the brain that
> > underlies who you are² (2002, p. 58). Donald (2001) makes the same point
> > in slightly different terms: ŒŒCulture actually configures the complex
> > symbolic systems needed to support it by engineering the functional
> capture
> > of the brain for epigenesis² (p. 23). More recently Li (2006) has coined
> the
> > term ŒŒbio-cultural co-constructivism² to characterize this view." (p.
> 237)
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On 9/18/08 9:20 AM, "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The influence of culture on funcational and structural aspects of the
> brain
> >> is reviewed
> >> some in my article for Handbook of Child dev at lchc.ucsd.edu and in
> my
> >> ISCAR talk
> >> which I will try to post when I return to San diego.
> >>
> >> More than a curiousity, for sure.
> >> mike
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Nice illustration here of the interface of biology and culture:
> >>>
> >>> *Scientists have uncovered evidence for an inbuilt "sat-nav" system in
> the
> >>> brains of London taxi drivers.*
> >>>
> >>> They used magnetic scanners to explore the brain activity of taxi
> drivers
> >>> as
> >>> they navigated their way through a virtual simulation of London's
> streets.
> >>>
> >>> Different brain regions were activated as they considered route
> options,
> >>> spotted familiar landmarks or thought about their customers.
> >>>
> >>> The research was presented at this week's BA Science Festival.
> >>>
> >>> Earlier studies had shown that taxi drivers have a larger hippocampus -
> a
> >>> region of the brain that plays an important role in navigation.
> >>>
> >>> Their brains even "grow on the job" as they build up detailed
> information
> >>> needed to find their way around London's labyrinth of streets -
> information
> >>> famously referred to as "The Knowledge".
> >>> "We were keen to go beyond brain structure - and see what activity is
> going
> >>> on inside the brains of taxi drivers while they are doing their job,"
> said
> >>> Dr Hugo Spiers from University College London.
> >>>
> >>> <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7613621.stm>
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