The Brain\'s Body Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics
10 INTRODUCTION difference do not adequately grasp the fleshly and lived realities of bodily variance (e.g., Siebers 2008; Baril ...
THE SOCIAL BRAIN AND CORPOREAL POLITICS 11 its unpredictable or probabilistic capacities. Affect theorists cite neuro- scientifi ...
12 INTRODUCTION effects on the bodies they study. I argue that we need to look more closely at knowledge of plasticity, socialit ...
THE SOCIAL BRAIN AND CORPOREAL POLITICS 13 The Brain’s Body Sex difference research, as I discuss in chapter 1, reveals that the ...
14 INTRODUCTION dominant hypothesis, called embodied simulation theory, mirror neurons enable theory of mind, or awareness of ot ...
THE SOCIAL BRAIN AND CORPOREAL POLITICS 15 misrecognition and erasure of nonheteronormative bonds, I consider how kinships can b ...
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CHAPTER 1 The Phenomenon of Brain Plasticity When philosopher Catherine Malabou (2008) asks, what should we do with our brain?, ...
18 CHAPTER ONE Figuring Plasticity Brain plasticity animates naturalized philosophy as a biological condition to be reckoned wit ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 19 tion generated by the capacities of biology. Whereas flexibility presents an endlessly pol ...
20 CHAPTER ONE temic mediation, but it is philosophically unsatisfying. This is because it contradicts the most striking insight ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 21 Whose Work Is It? The second concern I want to address is whether and how the brain’s plas ...
22 CHAPTER ONE instance of the “generativity and resilience of material forms with which social actors interact, forms which cir ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 23 in brain function and structure. They argue that social forces, rather than evolutionary o ...
24 CHAPTER ONE Habit, Learning, and Synaptic Plasticity The term plasticity was used in eighteenth- century materials science to ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 25 two stimuli occur together, the near- simultaneous firing of cells results in a strengthen ...
26 CHAPTER ONE nal connections are only too subject to modification by the environment” (Hubel and Wiesel 1998, 407; see also Hu ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 27 fying neurobiological subjects and to debates over the relative influence of nature and nu ...
28 CHAPTER ONE brain development is relevant for understanding the experiences of ado- lescents. I see the adolescent brain as a ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 29 somatosensory cortex, the area of the brain that receives haptic input from various parts ...
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