Cultural Patterns And Neurocognitive Circuits: East-west Connections

by Jan Wouter Vasbinder, Balazs Gulyas

Overview

Our age is characterized by global access to information, places and cultures: we can gain more and more knowledge about 'the others': other people and their cultures by 'indirect knowledge' — learning about them via the global information net assisted by electronic and other high-tech communication channels, as well as by 'direct knowledge': personally visiting various parts of the world and meeting local people in their own natural and social environments.East and West, two major worlds of aspirations, cultures, world-views, theoretical and practical approaches to life and death, have come closer by personal experiences of both Westerners and Easterners. But do we really understand the similarities and differences between the cultural-cognitive-behavioural-emotional patterns of the East and the West, with special regard to their neurobiological underpinnings in the human brain? The contents of this book focus on cultural patterns and cognitive patterns in the East and West, with special regard to those patterns which are determined by our natural-genetic endownments in contrast to those patterns which are influenced by our cultural ('East-West') influences, and within this context a unique flavour is given to the 'good life' aspects of adapting to this global community.Published in collaboration with Institute Para Limes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813147485
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/17/2016
Series:	Exploring Complexity , #2
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction J. Vasbinder B. Gulyás vii

1 Cycles and Hierarchies J. H. Holland 1

2 Synaptic Epigenesis and the Evolution of Higher Brain Functions J.-P. Changeux 21

3 East-West Differences and Implications for Cognitive Neuroscience S. Gielen 35

4 Health of Mind Captured: Brain Trained to Body Talk S. Kéri 53

5 Analytic versus Holistic? An Analysis of Some Proposals for Cognitive East-West Differences C. Pléh 71

6 Searching for Unasked Questions: An Unfinished "East-West-exploration" E. Pöppel Y. Bao 89

7 When Brains Design/Experience Buildings: Architectural Patterns for a Good Life M. A. Arbib 111

8 The Good Life Lost and Found: East, West, Home's Best S. E. Larsen 141

9 A Good Death: Resolving the Complexity of Mortality A. H. Y. Ho G. Tan-Ho 169

10 Is Consciousness a Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery inside an Enigma? Mysterianism and Beyond R. Vergauwen 183

Appendix: The Video and Presentation links 201