A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior
FPR-UCLA 2016 Conference Summary
The sex/gender conference succeeded in bringing together people “with different ideas and skills, different ways of thinking, that are actually transforming the field,” observed Carol Worthman, chair of Part 3 (“What’s at Stake?”). The earlier sessions (see Parts 1 and 2) provided …
A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior
FPR-UCLA 2016 Conference Summary
Part 2 of the FPR-UCLA conference on sex/gender, which was chaired by cultural anthropologist Gilbert Herdt, explored aspects of brain and behavior that are “fixed” by evolution and biology and other aspects that create, reflect, and respond to human social and cultural …
A Critical Moment: Sex/Gender Research at the Intersections of Culture, Brain, and Behavior
FPR-UCLA 2016 Conference Summary
Emerging theories in neuroscience – fueled by new technologies in brain imaging and recording along with torrents of new data – offer a profoundly different view of the human brain – part of a “tangled skein” of extended brain-body-behavior networks that are dynamic, …