Sentences with phrase «process cultural transmission»

Anthropologists call this process cultural transmission, and there was a time when it did not exist, when humans or more likely their smaller brained ancestors did not pass on knowledge.

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This means that context — in the broad sense of cultural, religious, social, political and economical circumstances — and text — as Scripture in its process of transmission and interpretation, that is, its Tradition — do mutually interpret each other.

But if we see that dance as part of our deeply connected human system, as part of a process of knowledge acquisition and transmission through the generations, we can better appreciate the value that intangible cultural heritage has to offer to all of our lives in all of our communities.

This would be consistent with theories of gene — culture interaction that posit there are genetic influences creating psychological predispositions that favor the adoption of particular cultural content in a process of biased transmission (Richerson and Boyd, 2005; Henrich and McElreath, 2007).

Neural activity within brain regions innervated by serotonergic neural pathways, such as the human amygdala, may serve as another likely information processing mechanism involved in the storage and transmission of cultural values of individualism and collectivism.

Future research in cultural neuroscience (Chiao in press) may investigate the extent to which cultural values of individualism — collectivism are associated with neural response within brain regions regulated by serotonergic neurotransmission, and if so, the process by which these activity within neural pathways supports the storage and transmission of cultural values and related behaviours.

Both of the putative information processing mechanisms that facilitate the storage and transmission of cultural values of individualism and collectivism described above are considered intermediate phenotypes or endophenotypes of affective disorders (Canli et al. 2006; Caspi & Moffitt 2006).

Affective biases in attention and cognition may serve as likely candidate information processing mechanisms involved in the storage and transmission of cultural values of individualism and collectivism.