The Brain\'s Body Neuroscience and Corporeal Politics
30 CHAPTER ONE study (Woollett and Maguire 2011) comparing test- takers, the researchers measured the hippocampi of those who to ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 31 cence, or one that is imprinted by poverty into a recognizable phenotype, is quite differe ...
32 CHAPTER ONE area in women — 10 percent larger straight gyrus on average compared with in men. Further, the size of the straig ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 33 tical reorganization, as an effect of masculinizing socialization over time. In other word ...
34 CHAPTER ONE characteristics. Whatever female/male behavioral and therefore brain differences are observed in that particular ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 35 Kirby 2008, 2011; E. Wilson 2010). But understood in material and not just discursive term ...
36 CHAPTER ONE sense of the plasticity of the brain, scientists, scholars, and policymakers call forth particular configurations ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 37 oretically be mapped to those systems, and, if socioeconomic status is taken to be a more ...
38 CHAPTER ONE et al. 2004). In these examples neural differences are, quite literally, made to matter. The phenomenon also incl ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 39 economic, public health, and community- based programs that address pov- erty itself. The ...
40 CHAPTER ONE The attempted modification of the prefrontal cortex as a goal of early education, the privileging of this brain s ...
THE PHENOMENON OF BRAIN PLASTICITY 41 tiple neural ontologies that are brought forth in particular research pro- grams, which th ...
“you can no more dip up the substance of reality with them than you can dip up water with a net, however finely meshed” (cited i ...
CHAPTER 2 What Difference Does the Body Make? PRELUDE Embodiment — having a body, needing a body, and experiencing life in and t ...
44 CHAPTER TWO and the safety they feel. They bring to encounters different skills and histo- ries. They are variously modified ...
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THE BODY MAKE? 45 context” (173). Embodied mind theories, which include theories of emotion and memory, ext ...
46 CHAPTER TWO scientific assumptions of objectivity but also to challenge universalizing claims about human experience. As Hele ...
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THE BODY MAKE? 47 theories can be seen as an extension of the American pragmatist tradition (Johnson and Ro ...
48 CHAPTER TWO tions as matters of concern” (74). Many social theorists have embraced such theories of emotion, arguing that the ...
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THE BODY MAKE? 49 sory and motor systems. The sensory system brings stimuli such as light, pressure, smell, ...
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