Re: [xmca] FW: ScienceDaily: Parts Of Brain Involved In Social Cognition May Be In Place By Age Six

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Em-- The piece you are forwarding is Karl Ratner's linked below? I believe
that Ratner's rephrasing of (Engels?) idea that the laws of history have
replaced the laws of phylogeny is empirically unsupportable and under
certain interpretations, e.g. Stalin's form of historical reductionism, a
danger to humanity.

People can say pretty much anything they choose to  -- like, for example,
that
Jefferson and his buddies did not believe in separation of church and state.
But just as we hope the American electorate will exam such statements
critically, we need to examine our colleagues claims seriously.
mike




On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Duvall, Emily <emily@uidaho.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
> I'm forwarding this piece as I think it is pretty interesting not so
> much with regard to autism (although that is definitely interesting),
> but with regard to understanding the development of higher mental
> functions, specifically in terms of the age range being discussed below.
> This is also the crucial age for Vygotsky with the social, thinking
> about Thought and Language specifically.
> As Ratner states, in this regard,
> " By seven years of age, most natural determinants of behavior have died
> out and the basis of behavior is overwhelmingly cultural, and Vygotsky
> repeatedly stresses this qualitative transformation. There is no longer
> an interaction of biological and social determinants of behavior. At
> this point, the child's individuality is a function of her particular
> social experience, which has increased exponentially over the years
> (i.e., more in the later years, less in the early years). The manner in
> which others have reacted to her behavior and physical traits (such as
> beauty, gender, and skin color) replaces biological determinants of
> behavior." (Ratner,  Child Psychology: Vygotsky's Conception of
> Psychological Development, http://www.sonic.net/~cr2/vygdev.htm<http://www.sonic.net/%7Ecr2/vygdev.htm>)
>
> I see a link here, too, with the work by that Andy Blunden guy
> (supported by discussions with Cole and Kellogg)
> (http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/comment/vygotsky-on-deve
> lopment.pdf<http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/comment/vygotsky-on-deve%0Alopment.pdf>) who discuss development and the "Crisis at age 7" - this
> very nice discussion, I think, and really illuminates the research
> below. I highly recommend it to those interested metacognition.
>
> Parts Of Brain Involved In Social Cognition May Be In Place By Age Six
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715074930.htm
>
>
> By scanning the brains of children ages 6 to 11 as they listened to
> children's stories, researchers have for the first time investigated
> brain regions associated with social cognition in human children.
> Researchers found that one of the brain regions, the right
> tempero-parietal junction, appeared to change its function between the
> ages of 6 and 11. This research has implications for the study of
> atypical social development, as happens in autism.
>
> ~em
>
>
> Emily Duvall, PhD
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> Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
> University of Idaho, Coeur d'Alene
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