title: Integration of culture and biology in human development.
abstract: The challenge of integrating biology and culture is addressed in this chapter by emphasizing human development as involving mutually constitutive, embodied, and epigenetic processes. Heuristically rich constructs extrapolated from cultural psychology and developmental science, such as embodiment, action, and activity, are presented as promising approaches to the integration of cultural and biology in human development. These theoretical notions are applied to frame the nascent field of cultural neuroscience as representing this integration of culture and biology. Current empirical research in cultural neuroscience is then synthesized to illustrate emerging trends in this body of literature that examine the integration of biology and culture.
authors.affiliation: Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA. jayanthi.mistry@tufts.edu
authors.forename: Jayanthi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mistry
mesh_terms: D001695:Biology / Q000639:trends*; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000639:trends*; D012931:Social Environment