The book focuses on the developmental analysis of the brain-culture-environment dynamic and argues that this dynamic is interactive and reciprocal. Brain and culture co-determine each other. As a whole, this book refutes any unidirectional conception of the brain-culture dynamic. Each is influenced by and modifies the other. To capture the ubiquitous reach and significance of the mutually dependent brain-culture system, the metaphor of biocultural co-constructivism is invoked. Distinguished researchers from cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology and developmental psychology review the evidence in their respective fields. A special focus of the book is its coverage of the entire human lifespan from infancy to old age Characteristics of illiterate and literate cognitive processing: implications of brain-behavior co-construction / Karl Magnus Petersson and Alexandra Reis -- The influence of work and occupation on brain development / Neil Charness -- The influence of organized violence and terror on brain and mind: a co-constructive perspective / Thomas Elbert ... [et al.] -- Co-constructing human engineering technologies in old age: lifespan psychology as a conceptual foundation / Ulman Lindenberger and Martin Lövdén -- Letters on nature and nurture / Onur Güntürkün Language acquisition: biological versus cultural implications for brain structure / Angela D. Friederici and Shirley-Ann Rüschemeyer -- Reading, writing, and arithmetic in the brain: from classical conditioning to cultural bias / Elizabeth A. Phelps -- The musical mind: neural tuning and the aesthetic experience / Oliver Vitouch -- Influences on the biological and self-initiated factors on brain and cognition in adulthood and aging / Lars Nyberg and Lars Bäckman -- The aging mind and brain: implications of enduring plasticity for behavioral and cultural change / Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz and Joseph A. Mikels -- Prologue: biocultural co-constructivism as a theoretical metascript / Paul B. Baltes, Frank Rösler, and Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz -- Biocultural co-construction of lifespan development / Shu-Chen Li -- Neurobehavioral development in the context of biocultural co-constructivism / Charles A. Nelson -- Adult neurogenesis / Gerd Kempermann -- Sensory input-based adaptation and brain architecture / Maurice Ptito and Sébastien Desgent -- Blindness: a source and case neuronal plasticity / Brigitte Röder -- | 
