Biocultural Orchestration of Developmental Plasticity Across Levels: The Interplay of Biology and Culture in Shaping the Mind and Behavior Across the Life Span

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  • Shu Chen Li - , Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Author)

Abstract

The author reviews reemerging coconstructive conceptions of development and recent empirical findings of developmental plasticity at different levels spanning several fields of developmental and life sciences. A cross-level dynamic biocultural coconstructive framework is endorsed to understand cognitive and behavioral development across the life span. This framework integrates main conceptions of earlier views into a unifying frame, viewing the dynamics of life span development as occurring simultaneously within different time scales (i.e., moment-to-moment microgenesis, life span ontogeny, and human phylogeny) and encompassing multiple levels (i.e., neurobiological, cognitive, behavioral, and sociocultural). Viewed through this metatheoretical framework, new insights of potential interfaces for reciprocal cultural and experiential influences to be integrated with behavioral genetics and cognitive neuroscience research can be more easily prescribed.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)171-194
Number of pages24
JournalPsychological Bulletin
Volume129
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2003
Peer-reviewedYes
Externally publishedYes

External IDs

PubMed 12696838
ORCID /0000-0001-8409-5390/work/142254963

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