The brain-artefact interface (BAI): a challenge for archaeology and cultural neuroscience

被引:73
作者
Malafouris, Lambros [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, McDonald Inst Archaeol Res, Cambridge CB2 3ER, England
关键词
Cognitive archaeology; material culture; brain-artefact interface; extended mind; plasticity; TOOL USE; PERIPERSONAL SPACE; FUNCTIONAL-ANATOMY; LANGUAGE; TECHNOLOGY; COGNITION; PLASTICITY; EMERGENCE; MIND; EMBODIMENT;
D O I
10.1093/scan/nsp057
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Cultural neuroscience provides a new approach for understanding the impact of culture on the human brain (and vice versa) opening thus new avenues for cross-disciplinary collaboration with archaeology and anthropology. Finding new meaningful and productive unit of analysis is essential for such collaboration. But what can archaeological preoccupation with material culture and long-term change contribute to this end? In this article, I introduce and discuss the notion of the brain-artefact interface (BAI) as a useful conceptual bridge between neuroplastisty and the extended mind. I argue that a key challenge for archaeology and cultural neuroscience lies in the cross-disciplinary understanding of the processes by which our plastic enculturated brains become constituted within the wider extended networks of non-biological artefacts and cultural practices that delineate the real spatial and temporal boundaries of the human cognitive map.
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